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I was just also thinking about some more rural or small town areas/school districts that have a visible/decent middle class black population in the region and a few in NY that some may consider are Onondaga Central outside of Syracuse, Valley Central and Washingtonville in the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown area. Same goes for Middle Township in southern NJ is another one and Mount Pocono in the East Stroudsburg PA area, if I'm not mistaken. These places aren't necessarily completely rural or small town, but a good portion of these SD's would be considered such.
^Before going on, I meant to say Middletown instead of Poughkeepsie twice.
In regards to Onondaga Central, Nedrow is a very small suburban community in between Syracuse and the Onondaga Nation(Native American land) that has a rural type of feel around it. https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profi...00000US3649726
Something I should have added with these census tract/neighborhood examples is the family poverty information, as I'm also seeing tracts where the overall figures indicate that it isn't middle class, but the black figures are at least around/above the national black MHHI figure for the period and the black poverty rate is below the national black poverty rate for the period. A couple of predominantly black census tracts in Buffalo, that are skewed due to off campus college students come to mind in this regard. Both have black family poverty rates below the national 2019 5-year figure of 19.2%(12% for tract 47 and 15.1% for tract 52.02). So, some of this can be more complicated, if you are familiar with some aspects that could skew the information.
So, both are close to colleges for events(D1 sports at both, lectures, etc.), some stores/shops on Main and have good access to public transit to Downtown.
I grew up in Brooklyn, now live in West Philly. Used to spend summers here with family when I was a teenager. Moved here 3 years ago thinking I wanted to retire here. Miss Brooklyn--wish I hadn't sold my home there. Brooklyn is family oriented, neighborly but not that affordable anymore.
I'm looking at Elkins Park as a place to buy a good home. High taxes but still affordable (for now), home prices. Hope they stay that way.
I grew up in Brooklyn, now live in West Philly. Used to spend summers here with family when I was a teenager. Moved here 3 years ago thinking I wanted to retire here. Miss Brooklyn--wish I hadn't sold my home there. Brooklyn is family oriented, neighborly but not that affordable anymore.
I'm looking at Elkins Park as a place to buy a good home. High taxes but still affordable (for now), home prices. Hope they stay that way.
What part of Brooklyn did you live in? Is there anything in Philadelphia that comes close?
Though its black MHHI is $44,844(still above the national figure for the time), its black poverty rate is 10.8%, its black family poverty rate is 0% and it is 27.2% black alone(33.8% inc. in combo).
In terms of the bolded section of that city, this adjacent neighborhood also has a middle class presence and a higher black percentage: https://rocwiki.org/Homestead_Heights
St. Joe's Prep is in North Philadelphia, just outside the neighborhood known as Sharswood.'
Is this solely focused on Catholic schools? Just west of St. Joe's Prep is a famed (locally) boarding school for children from single-parent (usually fatherless) families, Girard College. (Founded in 1848, after the death of Colonial financier Stephen Girard, who left money in his estate to establish a school for orphaned white boys. A lawsuit filed by the NAACP in 1964 eliminated the racial restriction, and the orphan and boys restrictions fell after that.)
It has varsity teams in baseball (boys), basketball (girls and boys), softball (girls), field hockey (girls), track & field (girls and boys), and wrestling (boys), but not football.
84 percent Black student body. But disadvantaged rather than middle-class (there is an income ceiling).
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