This just fascinates me to no end

[amber]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

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.

mine, too. I think I was the diversity until highschool. 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.

[macfanken]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

Okay, I think some of you are as weird as I am, so maybe you'd like this. I've been a little obsessed with it for awhile. It's 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 ) 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.

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

[GypsySorcerer]

Originally Posted by amber

mine, too. I think I was the diversity until highschool. 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.

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

[ontheEdgeof17]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

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.

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

[WildInTheWind]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

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.

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

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

[ryan8472]

Not.
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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)


JOSEPH A. FORAN HIGH SCHOOL (Students: 1,055; Location: 80 FORAN DRIVE; Grades: 09 - 12)