Derrydown Way, Decatur GA (pic submitted by Alex)

The city’s Public Information Officer Casie Yoder informs us that the city’s recently completed “Diversity Project results PowerPoint presentation from the Aug. 4 City Commission work session is now available here. The full written report is being finalized and will be available later this month.”

Christian Perry, a master’s candidate at GSU in the Public Studies program and a Decatur High grad, who is interning at the city presented some of his findings at Monday’s Decatur City Commission meeting.  You can view the presentation HERE.  Also, Decaturish has a summary of Perry’s presentation HERE.

Among other items, the deck shows that Decatur’s white and “non-black minority” groups have steadily grown from 1990 to 2010, while the black population declined, which is inverse to Atlanta’s race trending over that period.  Decatur is also getting older, as 25-34 year-olds registered the largest decline from 2000-2010 and 55-64 year-olds registered the largest increase percentage-wise.  The report also shows that Oakhurst and WInnona Park have seen large increases in median household income over the last 10 years.

That just scratches the surface.  There’s much greater detail in the report breaking down the changing racial makeup of the city by neighborhood and age.  It also looks at the city’s same-sex city households vs. other Atlanta cities and DeKalb and “educational attainment” over the last 30 years.