D.C. has fifth highest segregation level in nation, Va one of the lowest

[Anonymous]

very interesting tool - thanks for sharing. Interesting that my area (Fairfax 22031) is 47% white and my parents' area in Kansas is 84% white. Not surprised. KC is very homogenously caucasian except for certain areas.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:The New York Times has a cool tool for viewing this data here:

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer

My neighborhood is 43% white and 43% black. How many places in Virginia have a similar make-up?

A little more diverse in my NOVA community:

36%-W
12%-B
34%-H
17%-A

[Anonymous]

My neighborhood in Springfield, VA -

W - 52
B - 10
H - 24
A - 11
O - 3

I grew up here in Springfield and I'm surprised at the low percentage of AA's. It doesn't seem that way.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:The New York Times has a cool tool for viewing this data here:

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer

My neighborhood is 43% white and 43% black. How many places in Virginia have a similar make-up?

Thanks for sharing this. I was amazed to see that my census track has a very high rate of private school usage, even though everyone I know goes to public school (and that's not just selection bias -- my kids are too young for public school).

[Anonymous]

I took a look at Arlington. I have to say that if you look solely at the black/white ratio, it looks pretty segregated.

The overall numbers look better because Asians appear to live in just about every majority white neighborhood. But I do not think the story on black/white integration is all that great.

[Anonymous]

Wow, you can really see the Blessed Sacrament effect when you look at 20015 and 20815, -and- you know the BS parish boundaries. Mmm.

[Anonymous]

Another point we should consider.

Even in neighborhoods that have balanced percentages of different racial/ethnic groups, those groups don't necessarily socialize with or relate to each other. I live in a gentrifying neighborhood which has changed from overwhelmingly black and few whites to a large minority of white people. But the whites are middle and upper income, while he blacks who have stayed are more likely to be poor folks living in public housing. The blacks who have left were more likely to be lower-middle and working class people. Big gulf between groups of people.

[Anonymous]

Shaw?

[Anonymous]

I always thought living in the District would be a "diverse" experience. I have to say that my friends that live in the burbs often have a way more ethnically diverse classrooms and communities. They are less likely to have the economic diveristy. But I have had to come off my high-horse because DC can be like two ships passing in the nigh and no one is talking.