{"id":8815,"date":"2016-12-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statescoop.scpnewsgrp.com\/data-maps-show-the-stark-income-inequality-divide-in-cities\/"},"modified":"2021-09-03T14:12:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:12:24","slug":"data-maps-show-the-stark-income-inequality-divide-in-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/data-maps-show-the-stark-income-inequality-divide-in-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Data maps show the stark income-inequality divide in cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether it\u2019s the clothes we wear, the cars we drive or the entertainment we enjoy, the divide between rich and poor has always been tangible for Americans. Yet grasping the larger picture isn\u2019t easy, and it\u2019s the reason why the geospatial cloud company Esri has launched \u201cWealth Divides<\/a>,\u201d a new data visualization that maps income inequality in cities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Analyzing U.S. median household income data from state and federal agencies, Esri plotted the geographic divides within San Francisco, New York, Boston, Atlanta and Washington D.C. The interactive maps go beyond simple statistics and offer insight with a stark view of economic segregation. Esri used a palette of oranges to depict lower income families with household incomes less than $100,000; and blues to illustrate higher income families with incomes of $100,000 or greater. The visual contrast is staggering, with the divisions appearing more like state borders and battle lines than city neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

In Washington, D.C., for instance, an old economic\u00a0divide remains:\u00a016th Street NW slices the two sets of income earners apart. Lower-income residents\u00a0live on the east side of D.C. and many of its outlying suburbs, while higher income residents generally live to the west. The map observes a racial divide, too. Many homes in low-income households belong to districts heavily populated with African-American residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In San Francisco, low-income households form themselves into a square donut. The perimeter places the wealthy in its center and around the city\u2019s coasts and piers while lower income earners fill in the gaps. Here, the average household income in one tract is about $17,000 per year, while its neighbor \u2014 just a mile or two away \u2014 boasts a figure in excess of $160,000. The disparity, coupled with the San Francisco Bay Area\u2019s surging real-estate prices, have led to a wave of displaced residents and a crisis in homelessness. The situation has become so dire San Francisco ranks second only to New York for the ratio of homeless to non-homeless residents, an amount that equates to roughly 800 people per 100,000 residents according to the San Francisco Homelessness Project. \u00a0<\/p>\n

In the Big Apple, the wealthy predictably cluster at Manhattan\u2019s southern and center regions. Beyond, the city is surrounded on all sides by their less-privileged peers. The data indicates that 1-in-5 New Yorkers live\u00a0in poverty, while at the same time, New York\u2019s top 5 percent households\u00a0took home\u00a0more than $860,000 in 2014. In New York the homeless ratio stands at nearly 900 homeless residents per 100,000 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The statistics on\u00a0Atlanta and Boston’s demographics are no less bleak, with Boston holding the title for the city with the highest levels of income inequality nationwide, and Atlanta taking third \u2014 just behind New\u00a0Orleans.<\/p>\n

What connects those and many other cities\u00a0is an evaporating middle class. Though\u00a0the unemployment rate has dropped from 10 percent during the recession to just under 5\u00a0percent\u00a0this month, 9-in-10 cities saw a decline in middle class income earners between 2000 and 2014. Esri\u2019s analysts credit this to\u00a0stagnating incomes at the bottom 30 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for solutions, more affordable housing was cited as one of the\u00a0best options since rent is typically the largest burden for low-income earners. Yet this answer is also a challenge due to limitations cities have on rent control, market demand and the fact there is little financial incentive to keep affordable housing. Higher real estate values translate into higher property tax revenues, and these revenues represent a dominant share of general fund money in municipalities.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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