Welcome PPPM 407 number-crunchers

Lorna has asked us to come up with data about the following items;

demographics-existing resources

income – census

ethnicity - see below, use census tract data

mode of transport

rent rates – talk to rental agencies

property values – find LCOG access

tenure

travel time to work – some stuff in census

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Half of this area is in part of the 97401 zip code; the other half is in the 97402 zip code.  (We should remember that 97401 includes a lot of students which will skew this data from the city average.)  Data is more useful if it is put in some context.

Look at the census tract data on the following website from Lorna;

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

I’m guessing one way to come up with racial and ethnic percentages would be to add up Census tracts numbered;  all of 40, a quarter of 39, and half of 42.  We could also calculate racial numbers based on the total census tract population.

Census tracts	40	39	42
	rough percentages in Whiteaker
White	80	75	91	83
Black	2	5	0	2
Hispanic	11	10	5	9
Asian	2	6	1	2
Other	4	5	3	4
total pop	2888	2562	3521
half		1281	1760.5
quarter		641
	calculated totals in Whiteaker
White	2310	480	1602	4393
Black	58	32	0	90
Hispanic	318	64	88	470
Asian	58	38	18	114
Other	116	32	53	200
total pop	2859	647	1761	5267

This says there are about 5267 people in the Whiteaker neighborhood;  white = 4393, black = 90, Hispanic = 470, Asian = 114, and other = 200.

If we look at the 2000 Census zip code data for 97401 & 02 we see that the Whiteaker tracts have a higher Latino percentage than the two bigger zip codes did ten years ago.  Some of this could be a shift over time and some could be characteristics of this neighborhood.

	from 2000 Census			2010 data
	97401 percentages	97402 percentages	2000 US average	proportional Whiteaker Census tracts percentages
White	87	87	75.10%	83
Black or African American	2	1	12.30%	2
Asian	5	2	3.60%	2
Hispanic or Latino (of any race)	4	7	12.50%	9

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Who can come up with another way to verify or correct these numbers?

Cheers,

Julia