Linus Van Pelt
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« on: March 03, 2012, 11:51:09 PM » |
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This prompted an interesting idea - Dave's App gives you the number of white children in a particular area, by subtracting the VAP from the overall population. And - granting that even excluding the childless condo-dwellers downtown, some white demographics have larger families than others - this gives us an indirect indication of where white families with children are living in Detroit.
The recent census counts 8,427 non-Hispanic white children in Detroit; I divided the city into 10 districts each with between 800 and 900 of them. I got the following:
- four small districts, (one of which, in teal, is just a single precinct!) abutting Dearborn. These are likely mostly Arabs.
- two districts (purple and yellow) that border Dearborn but also extend further into the historically Polish but now heavily Hispanic area in the southwest of the city. Probably a mix of Arabs, a few remaining poor Polish-Americans, and maybe a handful of Hispanics who didn't check "Hispanic".
- one district (green) at the west end of the city. The population is concentrated in the southeastern arm next to Dearborn - again almost certainly Arab, but there is a steady very small population in the heavily black western areas near Redford. I'm not sure who these people are.
- one district (red) surrounding Hamtramck - again a mix of Middle Easterners and maybe a few remaining poorer Poles.
- one large district (mauve) extending from downtown out to the east end of the city. About half the white children are downtown, and the bulk of the remainder are near Harper Woods. A few of those blocks in the east end are kind of like inner Macomb or Harper Woods - working-class but not ghettoish.
- and the big blue district for the rest of the city. The population is concentrated in the center of the district - there's some spillover from the north of Hamtramck that didn't rate its own district. There's also a small affluent white population in Palmer Woods, which is arguably the most elegant black neighborhood in the whole country.
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