Latino neighorhood in Salt Lake City (Glendale: live, safe, moving to)

[beaste]

Pretty sizable Hispanic population in SLC.

[beckalees]

Originally Posted by Geo-Aggie

I personally wouldn't move to Glendale, Poplar Grove, Chesterfield or Redwood due to the overall undesirable nature of the neighborhoods. Granger and Hunter are pretty good neighborhoods with large Hispanic populations. Once you get west of 5600 West into West Hunter it starts to get pretty white and suburban again, so if a large Hispanic population is important to you, stay East of 5600W. The Northern parts of Rose Park are nice, have a large Hispanic population, and are worth considering. The eastern half of West Jordan has a solid Hispanic population and Foxboro is a nice neighborhood with a significant Hispanic population as well.

Also, as an aside, it drives me nuts when people call West Valley "ethnically diverse". It is not. West Valley City is like 50% Non-Hispanic Whites 45% Hispanic Whites. That's not diverse. That's just a significant population of Hispanic Whites, and even that is rather segregated by how far west you live. My old neighborhood was probably 80% White. Diverse is like where you take 10 people, 3 are White, 2 are Black, 2 are Southeast Asian, 2 are Hispanic and there's a Middle-Eastern person, and between the 10 of them they have 5 different countries they were born in. That is not WVC, at all.

Out of 30 kids in my daughter's second grade classroom (in WVC, the Hunter area) there are 7 white kids. 11 Hispanics, 6 of various Pacific Islander heritage, 4 from the Middle East, and 2 from somewhere in Africa (I haven't learned the specific country yet). There are no Asians so that does cut down the diversity some.

Does that meet your definition of ethnic diversity? Maybe as a whole, West Valley City may not be very diverse but there certainly are parts of it that are.

[kletter1mann]

Originally Posted by Geo-Aggie

I personally wouldn't move to Glendale, Poplar Grove, Chesterfield or Redwood due to the overall undesirable nature of the neighborhoods. Granger and Hunter are pretty good neighborhoods with large Hispanic populations. Once you get west of 5600 West into West Hunter it starts to get pretty white and suburban again, so if a large Hispanic population is important to you, stay East of 5600W. The Northern parts of Rose Park are nice, have a large Hispanic population, and are worth considering. The eastern half of West Jordan has a solid Hispanic population and Foxboro is a nice neighborhood with a significant Hispanic population as well.

Also, as an aside, it drives me nuts when people call West Valley "ethnically diverse". It is not. West Valley City is like 50% Non-Hispanic Whites 45% Hispanic Whites. That's not diverse. That's just a significant population of Hispanic Whites, and even that is rather segregated by how far west you live. My old neighborhood was probably 80% White. Diverse is like where you take 10 people, 3 are White, 2 are Black, 2 are Southeast Asian, 2 are Hispanic and there's a Middle-Eastern person, and between the 10 of them they have 5 different countries they were born in. That is not WVC, at all.

I'm usually 1000% in line with your posts, but . . . there are very few communities in the country that would satisfy that definition of 'diverse.' What you describe isn't what most have in mind when they seek a "diverse" community.

[Geo-Aggie]

Yeah, I'm being a bit pedantic with that. I agree. I'm basing "diversity" off the likelihood that two random people in a neighborhood are a different race which is certainly higher in WVC than in Lehi, but you're still only at like 30-40% odds in WVC, which is... yeah, I mean, you're right - for all normal intents and purposes WVC is pretty diverse, even by income and occupation there's lots of diversity.

There are areas that are that racially diverse though. The description I gave you matches about what you'd find in Midtown Detroit if you pointed at 10 random people, which is crazy given how segregated most of the metro is. Much of New York City, very diverse. Parts of Boston, super diverse. Parts of Silicon Valley are very diverse. Also a lot of flagship college campuses have similar(ish) demographics. U of M certainly does. WVC though, if you're at Valley Fair Mall 80% of the people will be Hispanic. If you go over to the Lakepark stores off 5600 West, 80% of the people will be White.

[kletter1mann]

Originally Posted by Geo-Aggie

Yeah, I'm being a bit pedantic with that. I agree. I'm basing "diversity" off the likelihood that two random people in a neighborhood are a different race which is certainly higher in WVC than in Lehi, but you're still only at like 30-40% odds in WVC, which is... yeah, I mean, you're right - for all normal intents and purposes WVC is pretty diverse, even by income and occupation there's lots of diversity.

There are areas that are that racially diverse though. The description I gave you matches about what you'd find in Midtown Detroit if you pointed at 10 random people, which is crazy given how segregated most of the metro is. Much of New York City, very diverse. Parts of Boston, super diverse. Parts of Silicon Valley are very diverse. Also a lot of flagship college campuses have similar(ish) demographics. U of M certainly does. WVC though, if you're at Valley Fair Mall 80% of the people will be Hispanic. If you go over to the Lakepark stores off 5600 West, 80% of the people will be White.

Interestingly my son recently moved here from the Bronx. The neighborhood was, in fact, exactly as you describe. So is much or Queens, and that's kind of the point. These places are very exceptional, kind of 3-sigma demographic outliers. Anyway, it's been my observation that what's generally meant is that there's enough ethnic variety that minority group X is large enough to not be totally dominated by majority group Y. Groups X and Y can be whatever you want.

[butkiss]

Rose Park. It's possible to get by in Rose Park without knowing English. In West Valley you might need to know a little more but could still get by.

[FLORIJUANI]

Hi!!!!! We are a mormon family from Argentina, we need more information about hispanic in SLC!! Please?

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

What kind of info? That's a very broad question.

[FLORIJUANI]

Maybe we move to Utah next year, we are from Argentina, I readed that Glandale an Rose Park are not safety?

[FLORIJUANI]

Originally Posted by SouthernBelleInUtah

What kind of info? That's a very broad question.

Hi!!! We'll moving to Utah next year, I readed that Rose park and Glendale is not safety, where do you think that is best place to race our Kids, we are looking many apartments, actually we live un Argentina, sorry for my spanglish!! Jaja