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Old 04-02-2013, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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This stat apparently has apparently given some people the hives:

Housing Units Valued at $1,000,000+
2011 Census Bureau Estimate:

Oakland Area: 13,232

Oakland 5,337
Berkeley 3,912
Piedmont 2,323
Alameda 849
Kensington 359
Albany 205
San Leandro 178
Emeryville 69

Hudson County, NJ: 2,112
Hoboken 1,171
Jersey City 613
Union City 151
West New York 78
Secaucus 54
Bayonne 25
Kearney 20
East Newark 0
Guttenberg 0
Harrison 0

LMAO.

Your probably not gonna like this one either.

Households Earning $200,000+ Annually, 2011 Census

Oakland Area: 22,647
Oakland 10,626
Berkeley 4,793
Alameda 2,637
Piedmont 1,808
San Leandro 1,000
Albany 729
Emeryville 575
Kensington 479

Hudson County, NJ: 14,889
Jersey City 6,535
Hoboken 4,829
Bayonne 954
West New York 785
Secaucus 677
Kearney 388
Union City 336
Guttenberg 265
Harrison 100
East Newark 20

 
Old 04-02-2013, 10:12 AM
 
Location: Lafayette, CA
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Here's your average West Oakland neighborhood:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8532/8...026de751_b.jpg

Last edited by JMT; 04-02-2013 at 10:55 AM..
 
Old 04-02-2013, 10:16 AM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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Here's some interesting facts about Oakland's income inequality and poverty.
http://www.workingeastbay.org/downlo...and%202012.pdf

In Oakland, the largest city in the East Bay, the poverty rate was 22.3% (86,682 people) in 2010, up from 17.2% in 2009.

Nearly 1 in 7 (15.3%) of children under the age of 18 were living in poverty in 2010, with African American and Latino children experiencing 3.5 times more poverty than Non-Hispanic Whites.

In 2010, parts of West Oakland had stark unemployment rates as high as 44-45%, and East Oakland as high as 31-35%.

African Americans had unemployment rates nearly twice that of Whites, and over 60% higher than the overall unemployment rate in the East Bay.


FYI: These are national problems, not Oakland specific ones. African-American unemployment rate is twice the national average across the entire country, unfortunately. As well as higher child poverty rates for black and Latino children.

Look at this recent article on the unemployment topic.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2974805.html

Oakland is a rare place, where people mix and live side by side. So it is less segregated ethnically than most places in the US.
 
Old 04-02-2013, 10:20 AM
 
Location: Lafayette, CA
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Oakland is a rare place, where people mix and live side by side. So it is less segregated ethnically than most places in the US.
You're kidding right? So Upper Rockridge people co-mingle and hang out with people in West Oakland?
 
Old 04-02-2013, 10:39 AM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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You're kidding right? So Upper Rockridge people co-mingle and hang out with people in West Oakland?
Oakland is class segregated like most Bay Area places. Where you are mistaken is that there are many affluent areas in Oakland, that are ethnically diverse, and people comingle. These areas have no clear ethnic majority and have been posted many times. Even though I live in an area that is "whiter" than other parts of Oakland. It is still about 55-60% non-white! There are lots of areas in the city like this.
 
Old 04-02-2013, 10:40 AM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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Doc, are you not going to address the fact the black unemployment is double that of white unemployment across the entire country?
 
Old 04-02-2013, 10:44 AM
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Location: Western Massachusetts
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Oakland is class segregated like most Bay Area places. Where you are mistaken is that there are many affluent areas in Oakland, that are ethnically diverse, and people comingle. These areas have no clear ethnic majority and have been posted many times. Even though I live in an area that is "whiter" than other parts of Oakland. It is still about 55-60% non-white! There are lots of areas in the city like this.
I guess it depends on which people consider the more important distinction, class or race. A place could seem segregated because of class separation. In the Bay Area, seems like the lower class is almost all non-white (poor or working-class whites have almost all left, I'd assume) while the better off classes are mixed.
 
Old 04-02-2013, 10:46 AM
 
Location: Lafayette, CA
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I guess it depends on which people consider the more important distinction, class or race. A place could seem segregated because of class separation. In the Bay Area, seems like the lower class is almost all non-white (poor or working-class whites have almost all left, I'd assume) while the better off classes are mixed.
That's exactly the case.
 
Old 04-02-2013, 10:54 AM
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Location: Western Massachusetts
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Here's your average West Oakland neighborhood:
Love the California Victorian style on the right. Obviously not in the best condition but you got some cool stuff out west. :Jealous:
 
Old 04-02-2013, 11:01 AM
 
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Since this thread has turned into pretty much one person's vitriol against Oakland, it's time to shut it down.
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