In May 2010, OffCite published A Slice of Houston, an analysis of the census tracts lining Bellaire Boulevard. Susan Rogers, the Director of University of Houston's Community Design Resource Center, presented data showing an astonishing level of international diversity along Bellaire between Loop 610 and Beltway 8 that drops off to near total native-born homogeneity inside the Loop 610. In this post, Rogers updates her analysis:
Early this year, I graphed median household income and place of birth for all of the census tracts along Bellaire/Holcombe from Main Street in the Medical Center, west to Highway 6. Recently, updated 2009 small area data has become available from the American Community Survey. The graph below shows Median Household Income along the Bellaire corridor in both 2000 and 2009.
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What does the graph illustrate? Mostly that the wealthy inside the 610 Loop were either joined by more wealthy people or got wealthier. It also shows that the folks outside the Loop have household incomes that have remained relatively unchanged since 2000, while the City of Houston’s median household income climbed from $36,000 in 2000 to nearly $43,000 in 2009.
For more from the Community Design Resource Center, visit their blog Super Houston.
