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Title: Washington Heights/Inwood Demographic, Economic, and Social Transformations 1990-2005 with a Special Focus on the Dominican Population

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Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: These rates of median household income growth add more evidence supporting the concept of a community undergoing change, although this does not mean that more affluent ‘migrants’ who may have moved into the district are replacing the community’s poorer inhabitants. The sharp yearly increase in household incomes among Non-Hispanic Whites, Asians, and to a lesser extent among Latinos suggests that families among these race/ethnic groups with higher incomes may indeed be moving into the district. At the same time the decline in the Non-Hispanic Black population seems to indicate that African-Americans have emphatically not been drawn to WH/IN and are in fact leaving the community. Yet, even if there has been an influx of wealthier families into the community this process has NOT altered the basic WH/IN racial/ethnic configurations between 1990 and 2005 in any significant way. Despite higher median household incomes, Non-Hispanic Whites DECLINED as a percentage of the total WH/IN population from 18% in 1990 to 13% in 2000 and maintained relative stability through 2005 at 14% of all residents. These data suggest that the stereotypical images of ‘gentrification’ which usually assert that more affluent whites take over communities in transition has not occurred in WH/IN, at least . . .

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Authors: Bergad, Laird W.

Publisher: City University of New York

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography

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