ZIP Code DestinyWhere the comparison starts3 of 19

Scene 3 of 19, Home values set most of the deprivation ranking. Step 1 of 2, Raw units.

Census tracts, weighted by population

Home values set most of the deprivation ranking

In raw units home value and family income carry 99.2% of the variance of the score between them

Measure

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Where the comparison starts

  1. Life expectancy falls with each step toward more deprived neighborhoods
  2. Inside each New York borough, neighborhoods differ widely in life expectancy
  3. Home values set most of the deprivation ranking

Growing up

  1. Babies in more deprived counties are more often born small or early
  2. Test scores rise with county income, and gaps between groups remain inside districts
  3. Black and white children raised in the same neighborhood reach different adult incomes
  4. Former students of for-profit colleges earn the least a decade after entry

Adult life

  1. Where local jobs are scarce, residents hold better-paid jobs than the county offers
  2. Whether rent burden rises with deprivation depends on the comparison
  3. More deprived places have less traffic pollution nationally, but more within their own county
  4. Young adults report more distress than a decade ago, and the top income bracket the least at every age
  5. Smoking falls as income rises, while binge drinking climbs
  6. People rate their lives lowest in midlife, while stress declines with age

Reading the patterns

  1. The most deprived places usually stand farther from the national value than the least deprived
  2. Neighborhoods a few kilometers apart can differ by years of life expectancy
  3. Most differences in life expectancy lie inside counties, not between them
  4. Neighborhood types line up on outcomes but blur into one another
  5. Mobility beyond what census measures predict clusters by region
  6. These comparisons describe places, not what moving would do

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Home values set most of the deprivation ranking

Scene 3 of 19, step 1 of 2: Raw units. Census tracts, weighted by population.

What to say

Two statistics appear here and they are different: the variance of the home value term alone, and its share once the covariance with income is allocated. Do not substitute one for the other. The standardized index changed only one of the main gradients counted in the book, traffic pollution.

About the chart

In raw units home value and family income carry 99.2% of the variance of the score between them

Home value's bar is the longest and family income's the second; every other bar is nearly zero.

  • Raw units: dollars for the four dollar measures, proportions between zero and one for the rest, and the log ratio for income disparity, as the Atlas applies Singh's coefficients. Standardized: each measure minus its population-weighted mean over its population-weighted standard deviation.
  • The two measures that are not rebuilt (high school diploma and internet access) are proportions, so in raw units they would add little to the variance of the score.

Source

ACS 2019-2023 five-year tract estimates (staged ACS file and Census API pull of housing measures); Singh (2003) coefficients; population-weighted (ACS tract population)

Open in Chapter 1.1, What the deprivation index measuresThe chapter’s report, with every estimate and table

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