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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What it seems like is that there is significant race based income disparity with each group having a median in DC about $100,000 at $60,000 and $168,000 and tailing off in each direction - there’s a valley in the middle, it’s not empty, but it’s a gap.

Geographically income and race are probably sorted so that the black households above median black [b]household income are less likely to be Wards 7 and 8. [/b]And the white households below median white household income are probably not in the most expensive housing in Ward 3. So if you’re looking for a middle class in DC, you might find it in Wards 1, 4, and 5. 2 and 6 maybe.

But these are the middle tails of a distribution, so the middle class isn’t the “nearly-everyone you see in normal life” percentage many Americans believe it to be.[/quote]

Spoken like some someone who has never been to Hillcrest (and probably never been to Ward 7 and 8 at all). Median housing price $500,000, which couldn't be more typically middle class.[/quote]

The neighborhood cluster that includes Hillcrest is 47% at risk. That's lower than a lot of the Ward 2 and Ward 6 neighborhood clusters: downtown, Chinatown, Mt Vernon Sq, Shaw, Logan Circle, Southwest, Navy Yard.[/quote]

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