I could spend all day with this excellent new interactive tool. It maps cities by race, income, housing, and education, with subsets in each category. For example, census tract 196 — the eastern portion of Highland Park — has a median household income of $157,000, and that’s probably because an astonishing 43 percent of its residents hold master’s degrees. Meanwhile the most explosive percentage growth in income in the last 10 years has been in the southern sector (on a very low base, but still), while some of the more affluent areas have actually lost ground.
FrontBurner Nation, here is a worthy way to waste an afternoon. Dig around in the data. Share your discoveries. There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. Tell us one of them.
