Comparing Educational Attainment, Median Household Income, and Median Price Asked in Historical Districts vs. La County
To follow up these maps we wanted to examine the housing conditions and education demographics of both an A grade and D grade census tract, and how they stack have progressed, or not, in relation to the entire county. We used both ACS 5-year estimates from 2017, as well as SF1 10-year surveys from 2000.
Note on the lack of data seen in the the D-grade census tract, 6506.05, for all years available of the ACS survey, there was a 0 recorded for all price levels. This may be because no homes were sold, but there was a varying margin of error from year to year, equal for all price levels. We even checked surrounding census tracts to no avail.
Otherwise, ere we see, as expected, that the A Grade census tract has much higher numbers in all categories reflecting median income as well as the ratio of residents with a college degree. When comparing the D grade to LA county we were surprised to see that the median income was significantly higher in a previously D grade tract than the entire county. This tract has not seen a continued cycle of decline that has been experienced in other redlining areas, maybe in part because of the explosion of opportunity in Los Angeles, or the fact perhaps this census tract in particular has seen an increase in what was once called a “grade” and found a way to improve despite its historical classification.