Suburban Cities with both rich and poor sectors (wealthy, close to)

[copperkinn]

Dallas:
Plano/Allen/McKinney: East of 75: Poor, West of 75: Affluent.
Garland, Farmers Branch, Grand Praire: All-around poor/rundown.


Austin: Entire metro east of I-35: Poor/run-down, West of I-35 affluent for the most part.

[mjtinmemphis]

Originally Posted by copperkinn

Dallas:
Plano/Allen/McKinney: East of 75: Poor, West of 75: Affluent.
Garland, Farmers Branch, Grand Praire: All-around poor/rundown.


Austin: Entire metro east of I-35: Poor/run-down, West of I-35 affluent for the most part.

I didn't see any of this! Especially Plano and Mckinney.

[ion475]

Originally Posted by mjtinmemphis

I didn't see any of this! Especially Plano and Mckinney.

The median household map said otherwise. The contrast is definitely not as crazy as Irving, though (i.e. Las Colinas area = rich, outside = not so much).

Originally Posted by copperkinn

Dallas:
Plano/Allen/McKinney: East of 75: Poor, West of 75: Affluent.
Garland, Farmers Branch, Grand Praire: All-around poor/rundown.


Austin: Entire metro east of I-35: Poor/run-down, West of I-35 affluent for the most part.

Austin not being a suburb aside, there are plenty of areas east of I-35 from Colorado River to Airport Blvd or so, plus the Mueller redevelopment, that's not "run down". The whole near east side East of Downtown (up to Chicon or so) is basically gentrified. Drive along East 5th or East 12th and you won't recognized it.

[AZLiam]

Originally Posted by NearFantastica

Phoenix comes to mind immediately, a giant suburban city that has very rich areas and very poor areas all around it. Oakland, California is another one.

Scottsdale.

You've got the $30,000 millionaires and then you've got the millionaires.

[the resident09]

I'll give you a county. Prince George's County, MD, inside of the 495 beltway mostly middle income, to lower income households, and poorer schools. Outside the 495 beltway is among the wealthiest income households with a Black majority in the entire country.

[boreatwork]

Originally Posted by the resident09

I'll give you a county. Prince George's County, MD, inside of the 495 beltway mostly middle income, to lower income households, and poorer schools. Outside the 495 beltway is among the wealthiest income households with a Black majority in the entire country.

I was going to say this. I don't want to call inside the beltway poor but in regards to crime it is def a tale of 2 counties. Inside the beltway had around 80% of the 133 murders last year about 350k ppl. Outside the beltway about 550k ppl with a rate lower than the national average.

[Veritas Vincit]

Many communities in NoVa have upmarket and downmarket areas. Arlington has already been mentioned, but the same applies to places like Alexandria, Reston or Falls Church as well. It's just part of the very uneven way this area has been developed. The old garden style apartment buildings and the older, no frills apartment towers have just become pretty low rent and thus have become lower income enclaves. And of course that's always the case with the public housing that does exist in pretty significant quantities across the area, too. All of it sometimes right next to neighborhoods with 1-2 million dollar homes.

[TheYO]

Mesa, AZ is a good example, although it's absolutely massive by suburb standards (population over 500,000). It's more populous than cities like Atlanta, KC, Miami, Minneapolis, etc. so it naturally has both affluent and impoverished areas.

[Irehdna]

Oddly enough Greenwich, CT. Most people think it is just insane wealth but there is actually a significant working class area in the south/western portion by the Port Chester border. Some of the schools in that area have >50% students on free/reduced lunch.

One of my co-interns went to Greenwich High School and he said the children of CEOs and service workers eat lunch together.

[censusdata]

Almost any across the river inner ring suburb probably does. Inner ring suburb I live in has bordering census tracts with either zero percent or 40% of residents have a bachelor's degree+. I live in the 'bridge' area between the poor and richer areas.