Understanding the demographics of a neighborhood is key to managing the future influx of residents from outside sources. For Oakland, that movement may be coming from San Francisco as residents are pushed out by higher rents or the lack of available housing. The map above details the median age groups of each Oakland blockgroup, informing the viewer of the neighborhoods that are more or less accommodating of their age group. For example, older residents tend to locate in the northwestern portion of the city, closer to the hills, while younger residents are in the southeast portion of the city.  Future investigation could test whether this distribution is correlated with availability of jobs or real estate values and rents.

Source: United States Census Data, 2010