{"id":6095,"date":"2017-02-23T12:54:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2017-06-29T21:05:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T03:05:44","slug":"know-university-city-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2017\/02\/know-university-city-missouri.html","title":{"rendered":"What do you know about University City, Missouri?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3A2007-03-12_1600x2400_ucity_city_hall.jpg;<\/p>\n

Well, to begin with, it\u2019s not Ferguson.<\/p>\n

But I spent some time trying to hunt down more information on the city, following my post yesterday about the Jewish\u00a0cemetery vandalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The St. Louis metro area, in general, has a key north\/south black\/white divide at Delmar Avenue. \u00a0(See this Washington Post article<\/a>.) \u00a0However, in the case of University City, there are three areas \u2014 south of Delmar is lily-white, between Delmar and Olive is mixed, and north of Olive is nearly all-black. \u00a0Here are two maps from the same site<\/a> I pulled the basic census data from yesterday, the first, showing the white percentage by census block (Delmar underlined in blue):<\/p>\n

\"http:\/\/statisticalatlas.com\/place\/Missouri\/University-City\/Race-and-Ethnicity\"
http:\/\/statisticalatlas.com\/place\/Missouri\/University-City\/Race-and-Ethnicity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

and the second showing the black percentage, similarly, with Olive underlined:<\/p>\n

\"http:\/\/statisticalatlas.com\/place\/Missouri\/University-City\/Race-and-Ethnicity\"
http:\/\/statisticalatlas.com\/place\/Missouri\/University-City\/Race-and-Ethnicity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How does this affect the city?<\/p>\n

To start with, you can form a certain impression from the crime statistics<\/a>, although the city only reports by regions split into three \u201cnorth\u201d regions and three \u201csouth\u201d regions. \u00a0Combining the North together and the South likewise, for 2016, here\u2019s what things looked like:<\/p>\n

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You can also take a look at the housing market. \u00a0I couldn\u2019t find any statistics on this, so I just eyeballed the situation at Realtor.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what seems to be a typical north side house (the St. Louis in the address is because that\u2019s just how it works in the area):<\/p>\n

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and a south side house:<\/p>\n

\"s<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s another graphic on race: \u00a0age distribution, from the same census-data page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"http:\/\/statisticalatlas.com\/place\/Missouri\/University-City\/Race-and-Ethnicity\"
http:\/\/statisticalatlas.com\/place\/Missouri\/University-City\/Race-and-Ethnicity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s striking that there are significantly fewer blacks in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties than older\/younger age groups. \u00a0Does this mean that the \u201cmixed\u201d area is gentrifying, or that there are at least certain trendy neighborhoods popular with that demographic? \u00a0At the same time, there are dramatically more blacks in the 18 \u2013 19 group; does that mean that blacks are far less likely to go away to college than their white peers?<\/p>\n

I know there\u2019s census information out there that would show racial changes over time, but I was coming up empty trying to find it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying that University City is Ferguson, or that it\u2019s a seriously troubled place. \u00a0I could find no information to suggest that, and I couldn\u2019t really figure out if the elevated crime statistics are at the level that indicates a serious problem or not.<\/p>\n

But it seems unlikely that the cemetery vandalism is a Neo-Nazi act.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Top image: \u00a0University City City Hall. https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3A2007-03-12_1600x2400_ucity_city_hall.jpg; J. Crocker [Attribution], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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