This just fascinates me to no end

[GateandGarden]

Okay, I think some of you are as weird as I am, so maybe you'd like this. :laugh: I've been a little obsessed with it for awhile. It's www.city-data.com (http://www.city-data.com). On it, you can look virtually every city in the U.S. and read lots of interesting statistics about it. I can't get over how so many of the small towns in LA have almost no black people in them. And some places have a pretty low percentage of people who finished high school. Some of the cities have pictures that people submitted, and it's always interesting (to me, anyway :laugh: ) to see what people chose to take pictures of, particuarly if you've been to that place. Okay, I'll just see if anyone else likes this as much as I do. :o

[amber]

Oh, yeah. I've seen this before, I like it too. Here's my hometown's breakdown.

Placerville, CA.
White Non-Hispanic (83.1%)
Hispanic (12.6%)
Other race (5.8%)
Two or more races (3.1%)
American Indian (2.6%)
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

Ancestries: German (18.9%), English (14.9%), Irish (13.7%), French (5.4%), Italian (4.9%), United States (4.9%).

Here's the town I live in now:

Races in Oakland:

Black (35.7%)
White Non-Hispanic (23.5%)
Hispanic (21.9%)
Other race (11.7%)
Chinese (8.0%)
Two or more races (5.0%)
Vietnamese (2.2%)
Other Asian (2.1%)
American Indian (1.7%)
Filipino (1.6%)
Japanese (0.5%)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (0.5%)
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

Ancestries: German (4.9%), Irish (4.3%), English (4.0%), Subsaharan African (2.7%), Italian (2.2%), French (1.3%).

Here's Berkeley, which I basically live closer to and do most stuff in:

White Non-Hispanic (55.2%)
Black (13.6%)
Hispanic (9.7%)
Chinese (7.4%)
Two or more races (5.6%)
Other race (4.6%)
Japanese (2.3%)
Korean (1.9%)
Asian Indian (1.7%)
American Indian (1.6%)
Other Asian (1.2%)
Filipino (1.2%)
Vietnamese (0.8%)
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

[DrummerDeanna]

Whoa - I'm excited...I'll go check it out now lol... I love this type of thing...I should have checked this out before moving to Rochester :laugh:

Turns out - and this is from recent data:

Highest murder rate in New York State
More likely to get your car stolen in Rochester than the Bronx...
Identity theft increased 112% last year here :eek:

edit:

Races in Rochester:

White Non-Hispanic (44.3%)
Black (38.5%)
Hispanic (12.8%)
Other race (6.6%)
Two or more races (3.8%)
American Indian (1.3%)
Other Asian (0.6%)
Vietnamese (0.6%)

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Where I'm from -

Races in Las Cruces:

Hispanic (51.7%)
White Non-Hispanic (42.0%)
Other race (21.6%)
Two or more races (4.1%)
American Indian (2.7%)
Black (2.3%)

[amber]

Whoa - I'm excited...I'll go check it out now lol... I love this type of thing...I should have checked this out before moving to Rochester :laugh:

Turns out - and this is from recent data:

Highest murder rate in New York State
More likely to get your car stolen in Rochester than the Bronx...
Identity theft increased 112% last year here :eek:
Holy Crap! That's crazy! :eek: Be careful, girl.

[DrummerDeanna]

Holy Crap! That's crazy! :eek: Be careful, girl.


Well apparently if you're not involved in the drug trade your chances of being murdered are drastically cut...

and the murders happen mostly in one concentrated area in the city known as "The Crescent"

[estranged4life]

Races in Carnegie:

White Non-Hispanic (62.3%)
American Indian (24.7%)
Hispanic (12.3%)
Other race (8.8%)
Two or more races (1.8%)
Black (1.2%)

[StevieNicksEO17]

Races:

White Non-Hispanic (90.4%)
Hispanic (5.5%)
Other race (1.7%)
Black (1.7%)
Two or more races (0.9%)
Asian Indian (0.5%)

Median resident age: 36.6 years
Median household income: $69,424 (year 2000)
Median house value: $196,200 (year 2000)

For population 25 years and over in STC

High school or higher: 91.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 42.9%
Graduate or professional degree: 14.8%
Unemployed: 2.3%
Mean travel time to work: 25.6 minutes

Actually this is interesting!

[GypsySorcerer]

Races in Lexington-Fayette:
White Non-Hispanic (79.1%)
Black (13.5%)
Hispanic (3.3%)
Two or more races (1.6%)
Other race (1.2%)
Chinese (0.8%)
American Indian (0.6%)
Asian Indian (0.6%)

Ancestries: German (13.5%), English (12.4%), Irish (12.0%), United States (11.7%), Scotch-Irish (2.9%), Italian (2.6%).

For population 25 years and over in Lexington-Fayette
High school or higher: 85.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 35.6%
Graduate or professional degree: 14.5%
Unemployed: 5.4%
Mean travel time to work: 19.3 minutes


Races in Christopher, IL (my hometown):
White Non-Hispanic (98.2%)
Two or more races (0.8%)
Hispanic (0.5%)
Ancestries: German (16.5%), English (13.1%), Irish (12.3%), United States (9.3%), Italian (6.8%), French (5.2%).

For population 25 years and over in Christopher
High school or higher: 73.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 10.9%
Graduate or professional degree: 2.6%
Unemployed: 6.1%
Mean travel time to work: 24.3 minutes


Races in Benton, IL (Where my parents live):
White Non-Hispanic (98.3%)
Hispanic (0.5%)
Two or more races (0.5%)
Ancestries: German (16.3%), English (15.0%), United States (14.9%), Irish (12.5%), Italian (3.9%), Dutch (2.8%).

For population 25 years and over in Benton
High school or higher: 76.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 13.3%
Graduate or professional degree: 4.8%
Unemployed: 6.1%
Mean travel time to work: 20.2 minutes

[ontheEdgeof17]

Is this a spin-off of The Most Boring Movies Ever?

....The Most Boring Web Sites Ever

:laugh: :p

Love ya Hill!

[Gwillaker]

Dammit, you said there would be interesting statistics :distress:

J/K :p

[WildInTheWind]

In St. Louis.....

Races in St. Louis:

Black (51.2%)
White Non-Hispanic (42.9%)
Hispanic (2.0%)
Two or more races (1.9%)
Vietnamese (1.0%)
American Indian (0.8%)
Other race (0.8%)
Ancestries: German (14.5%), Irish (8.6%), English (3.9%), Italian (3.6%), United States (3.1%), French (2.4%).

[GateandGarden]

Is this a spin-off of The Most Boring Movies Ever?

....The Most Boring Web Sites Ever

:laugh: :p

Love ya Hill!:p :laugh: I knew that somewhere down the line, someone was going to think this was pretty uninteresting. I'm surprised that this so many people were interested in it to begin with. :shocked:

Anyway, I'm surprised at how all of y'all's cities were mostly white with a smaller population of blacks because my city is mostly black, actually. I suppose that's what I'm used to.

EDIT: Oh, wait. Except for St. Louis.

[amber]

:p :laugh: I knew that somewhere down the line, someone was going to think this was pretty uninteresting. I'm surprised that this so many people were interested in it to begin with. :shocked:

Anyway, I'm surprised at how all of y'all's cities were mostly white with a smaller population of blacks because my city is mostly black, actually. I suppose that's what I'm used to.

EDIT: Oh, wait. Except for St. Louis.
Shout out for Oakland, too! :laugh:

[GateandGarden]

Shout out for Oakland, too! :laugh:Oh yeah. Y'all do have more blacks than other races, though it's a small percentage, but that's because you have other races to speak of besides white. Actual diversity! I hardly know what that's like! :laugh:

[GypsySorcerer]

Anyway, I'm surprised at how all of y'all's cities were mostly white with a smaller population of blacks because my city is mostly black, actually. I suppose that's what I'm used to


My hometown is basically WonderBread. Our school population was basically 100% Caucasian. :( One of my good friends is half Indian and she served as our diversity. :distress:

[amber]

My hometown is basically WonderBread. Our school population was basically 100% Caucasian. :( One of my good friends is half Indian and she served as our diversity. :distress:
:lol:
mine, too. I think I was the diversity until highschool. :rolleyes: I think there was only one black girl in my first highschool, she moved there from somewhere else. And I don't remember any in my second highschool. We had 2 Indian girls (sisters) and a few girls who were half asian or philippina. :shrug:

[macfanken]

Okay, I think some of you are as weird as I am, so maybe you'd like this. :laugh: I've been a little obsessed with it for awhile. It's www.city-data.com (http://www.city-data.com). On it, you can look virtually every city in the U.S. and read lots of interesting statistics about it. I can't get over how so many of the small towns in LA have almost no black people in them. And some places have a pretty low percentage of people who finished high school. Some of the cities have pictures that people submitted, and it's always interesting (to me, anyway :laugh: ) to see what people chose to take pictures of, particuarly if you've been to that place. Okay, I'll just see if anyone else likes this as much as I do. :o


I LOVE **** like this... I could read it for hours!

[GypsySorcerer]

:lol:
mine, too. I think I was the diversity until highschool. :rolleyes: I think there was only one black girl in my first highschool, she moved there from somewhere else. And I don't remember any in my second highschool. We had 2 Indian girls (sisters) and a few girls who were half asian or philippina. :shrug:

I switched schools too -- between sophomore and junior years. Both schools were equally white. :rolleyes: Although my second high school had more Italians. :)

[ontheEdgeof17]

My hometown is basically WonderBread. Our school population was basically 100% Caucasian. :( One of my good friends is half Indian and she served as our diversity. :distress:


Same here. We did have one black girl in my school....and she's my cousin. :wavey:

[WildInTheWind]

:p :laugh: I knew that somewhere down the line, someone was going to think this was pretty uninteresting. I'm surprised that this so many people were interested in it to begin with. :shocked:

Anyway, I'm surprised at how all of y'all's cities were mostly white with a smaller population of blacks because my city is mostly black, actually. I suppose that's what I'm used to.

EDIT: Oh, wait. Except for St. Louis.

I never realized we had more black than white. News to me!

[ShamHy89]

Races in Leicester:

White Non-Hispanic (95.0%)
Hispanic (1.7%)
Black (1.3%)
Two or more races (1.0%)
American Indian (0.7%)
Ancestries: Irish (24.6%), French (20.7%), English (12.9%), Italian (11.2%), French Canadian (7.3%), Swedish (6.3%).

Shamus

[irishgrl]

here's MY city (geezerville!!!):
http://www.city-data.com/city/Magalia-California.html

Races in Magalia:

* White Non-Hispanic (90.9%)
* Hispanic (4.9%)
* Two or more races (2.6%)
* American Indian (2.5%)
* Other race (1.0%)

Ancestries: German (21.2%), English (17.4%), Irish (14.8%), United States (7.4%), French (7.0%), Italian (5.6%).

the biggest city in my county is Chico, formerly voted by Playboy magazine as the #1 party campus (Chico State) in the US of A :woohoo:

unfortunately, (or fortunately!) Chico no longer has that dubious title.

[ryan8472]

Not. :lol:
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Population (year 2000): 52,305
Males: 25,294 (48.4%), Females: 27,011 (51.6%)

Elevation: 60 feet

County: New Haven

Median resident age: 39.4 years
Median household income: $61,183 (year 2000)
Median house value: $168,900 (year 2000)

New: Milford, CT residents, houses, and apartments details

Races in Milford:

White Non-Hispanic (91.3%)
Hispanic (3.3%)
Black (1.9%)
Two or more races (1.1%)
Asian Indian (0.9%)
Other race (0.9%)
Chinese (0.5%)
Ancestries: Irish (23.5%), Italian (23.1%), English (12.9%), German (12.1%), Polish (10.1%), French (4.9%).



For population 25 years and over in Milford

High school or higher: 88.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 29.3%
Graduate or professional degree: 12.0%
Unemployed: 4.2%
Mean travel time to work: 24.3 minutes
For population 15 years and over in Milford town

Never married: 24.4%
Now married: 57.2%
Separated: 0.8%
Widowed: 8.0%
Divorced: 9.6%
8.1% Foreign born (3.5% Europe, 2.6% Asia, 1.2% Latin America).






Single-family new house construction building permits:
1997: 158 buildings, average cost: $84,600
1998: 183 buildings, average cost: $87,400
1999: 151 buildings, average cost: $113,900
2000: 148 buildings, average cost: $131,000
2001: 180 buildings, average cost: $150,900
2002: 121 buildings, average cost: $155,200
2003: 72 buildings, average cost: $179,700



Crime in Milford (2002):
2 murders (3.8 per 100,000)
16 rapes (30.1 per 100,000)
28 robberies (52.7 per 100,000)
31 assaults (58.3 per 100,000)
238 burglaries (447.8 per 100,000)
1,543 larceny counts (2903.2 per 100,000)
169 auto thefts (318.0 per 100,000)
City-data.com crime index = 219.7 (higher means more crime, US average = 330.6)


Crime in Milford (2001):
1 murder (1.9 per 100,000)
12 rapes (22.8 per 100,000)
36 robberies (68.4 per 100,000)
25 assaults (47.5 per 100,000)
254 burglaries (482.8 per 100,000)
1,553 larceny counts (2952.2 per 100,000)
197 auto thefts (374.5 per 100,000)
City-data.com crime index = 224.2 (higher means more crime)


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