I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
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valatan 32 months ago | reply
Still trying to compare how this stuff breaks down here relative to home--the lines are way less stark, but at the same time, the presence of minorities is just way less obvious. Interesting nonetheless.
Eric Fischer 31 months ago | reply
Replaced with new image that represents the shapes of census blocks accurately.
luckyfatimalucky 31 months ago | reply
Austin has a lot of lily white areas and two older densely black areas and one old Latino area, but a lot of Austin is not particularly racially compartmentalized, especially compared to cities where the growth and development is older and more established. This is a good thing. Austin has truly mixed neighborhoods. I definitely feel that Austin is not diverse enough and some of the affluent white areas feel uncomfortable. However, I like the mixed atmosphere like in North Austin towards Pflugerville. Above, the city looks like our demographic pie chart, which is almost 50% white.
Eric Fischer 26 months ago | reply
Updated for Census 2010: