Atlanta’s New Look
Decatur Metro | December 15, 2010Some top line bullets from the AJC’s parsing of Atlanta’s 2005-2009 Census SURVEY data that was recently release to the viewing public. This ISN’T the 2010 Census, which is scheduled to be released a week from now.
- “…median income in the city rose from $34,770 to $50,243, a 54 percent increase. At the same time, the percentage of city residents with at least a bachelor’s degree increased by one-third, to 46 percent.”
- “For the metro region as a whole, the percentage of Hispanic or Latino residents increased 43 percent between the 2000 Census and the latest numbers, which cover the period 2005-2009.”
- “Although 21 percent of Atlanta residents lived in poverty during the period 2005-2009, that was a 14 percent decrease from the 2000 census.”
- “The number of white residents rose by 30 percent, eclipsing even the 18 percent increase in the number of people of Hispanic origin. The number of black residents fell by 18 percent.”
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‘Sup DM.
If you want to seriously get your demographic geek on (And who doesn’t), take this for a spin:
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer?hp?hp
Oh hells yes.
Don’t know where it was or will be deployed in the print edition, but AJC online prominently features this article under the headline: “People, money leave ‘burbs for city.” Doesn’t exactly corroborate Creative Loafing’s claim that they are downplaying negative stories about suburbia, does it? (Though I did note the word “sprawl” was not used. Maybe we need a word for reverse sprawl.)
Depends on your perspective as an Atlanta resident, I guess. If you’re poor and concerned about displacement or loss of support services or loss of neighborhood businesses catering to low incomes, it could read as a negative story…
Eye of the beholder, I guess.
Yes, but from the standpoint of say, a Gwinnetian, the article sounds pretty negative if you would rather the poor stay intown and not move to your county, which is what is occurring as younger professionals move to the city.
Yes, regardless of perspective, the story’s clearly not pandering to the AJC’s new neighbors. Agreed there.
How about 23% of Gwinnett is foreign born. Diversity is picking up speed quickly in Gwinnett.
There a good map showing the relative changes in income around Atlanta. The final two graphics in the article cover the Atlanta area but there is also a good commentary about new money not building new houses but buying old ones.
http://discoveringurbanism.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-census-numbers-confirm-resurgence.html
Lwarps = reverse sprawl. If you spent any time in the GA TECH architecture building the last few years, you would have seen this term a lot.