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. 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.

[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

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

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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

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

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by amber

Holy Crap! That's crazy! 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



Love ya Hill!

[Gwillaker]

Dammit, you said there would be interesting statistics

J/K

[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]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

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

....The Most Boring Web Sites Ever



Love ya Hill!

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.

[amber]

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.

Shout out for Oakland, too!

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by amber

Shout out for Oakland, too!

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!

[GypsySorcerer]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

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.