Per Capita Income Map - Chicago
Neighborhood Types
Key: Ten neighborhood types are shown. For each neighborhood type, the following
list includes:
- the neighborhood-type number;
- the T-scores on the four dimensions;
- a short name derived mechanically from the scores on the
four dimensions; a two-letter code (e.g., Ur for non-suburban) indicates a
standard deviation from the mean of .5 to 1; a two-letter code preceded by V
(e.g., VWe for very well-off) indicates a standard deviation from the mean of
greater than 1 and less than 2.5; a double VV (e.g., VVWe) means a standard
deviation of greater than 2.5.
The ten neigborhood types are as follows:
1. (34.0 40.0 42.5 37.8). VUrPoNaVFe. Very urban, impoverished,
English-speaking, with many female-headed families and numerous children. The
core impoverished African-American neighborhoods of the South and West Sides.
More than 1.5 standard deviations below the mean on "urban" (dimension 1).
2. (47.0 43.2 44.1 43.5). PoNaFe. Somewhat impoverished, mostly
English-speaking, with a fair number of female-headed families with many
children. Mostly African-American neighborhoods on the edge of type-1
neighborhoods.
3. (41.5 45.6 59.7 50.6). UrIs. Somewhat urban and somewhat
linguistically-isolated. Mostly blue-collar, often somewhat "ethnic"
neighborhoods in the outer city and inner suburbs.
4. (40.0 62.7 48.9 68.7). UrVWeVNo. Very well-off neighborhoods with many
non-family households. Most of the North Side Lakefront, plus the area around
the Loop, with outliers in Hyde Park, Evanston, Oak Park, and a few suburban
tracts with apartment building clusters.
5. (42.5 41.1 76.0 48.7). UrPoVVIs. Urban, impoverished, and very
linguistically-isolated/Hispanic (more than 2.5 standard deviations above the
mean on the latter). Inner-city Hispanic neighborhoods, mostly in Chicago, also
in central Joliet, Aurora, Elgin, and Waukegan.
6. (38.6 48.6 61.4 58.8). VUrVIsNo. Very urban and very
linguistically-isolated/Hispanic, with non-family households. The complicated,
often only partly Hispanic, neighborhoods on the inner Northwest and Far North
Sides.
7. (40.0 65.4 46.2 89.4). UrVWeVVNo. Urban, very well-off, with a great many
non-family households (nearly 4 standard deviations above the mean on the
latter). Neighborhoods with numerous young, unmarried adults and hardly any
children. The greatest concentration follows Halsted Street from North Avenue to
"Boys' Town." There are small outliers in Hyde Park, Bucktown, the Near West
Side, Evanston, and Oak Park. This type of neighborhood was not distinguished in
the analysis of 1990 data.
8. (57.6 47.9 45.5 50.3). Su. Suburban. Not especially wealthy. The outermost
suburbs, the inner southwest suburbs, and much of Northwest Indiana.
9. (59.3 58.5 46.1 48.6). SuWe. Suburban, well-off. More prosperous suburbia.
Concentrated especially in the western and northwestern suburbs.
10. (60.5 76.3 44.7 45.3). VSuVVWeNa. Very suburban, very wealthy, mostly
English-speaking. Highly prosperous suburbia; more than 2.5 standard deviations
from the mean on wealth. Mostly in northern Cook and southern Lake Counties,
with some outliers in DuPage County.
