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Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads Many of the nation’s racial disparities stem from the simple economic fact that white families make more money than black families on average, a gap that has remained stubbornly large in recent decades. Yet neither this income gap nor blatant discrimination is the only reason for the disparities. A new study, by three Stanford researchers, highlights another big cause: the neighborhood gap. Even among white and black families with similar incomes, white families are much more likely to live in good neighborhoods — with high-quality schools, day-care options, parks, playgrounds and transportation options. The study comes to this conclusion by mining census data and uncovering a striking pattern: White (and Asian-American) middle-income families tend to live in middle-income neighborhoods. Black middle-income families tend to live in distinctly lower-income ones. Continue reading the main story RELATED COVERAGE Richard Ingram Jr., with his son Richard, is a second-generation Miami-Dade County bus driver.A Shifting Middle: Public-Sector Jobs Vanish, Hitting Blacks HardMAY 24, 2015 Most strikingly, the typical middle-income black family lives in a neighborhood with lower incomes than the typical low-income white family.Many of the nation’s racial disparities stem from the simple economic fact that white families make more money than black families on average, a gap that has remained stubbornly large in recent decades. Yet neither this income gap nor blatant discrimination is the only reason for the disparities. A new study, by three Stanford researchers, highlights another big cause: the neighborhood gap. Even among white and black families with similar incomes, white families are much more likely to live in good neighborhoods — with high-quality schools, day-care options, parks, playgrounds and transportation options. The study comes to this conclusion by mining census data and uncovering a striking pattern: White (and Asian-American) middle-income families tend to live in middle-income neighborhoods. Black middle-income families tend to live in distinctly lower-income ones. Continue reading the main story Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads RELATED COVERAGE Richard Ingram Jr., with his son Richard, is a second-generation Miami-Dade County bus driver.A Shifting Middle: Public-Sector Jobs Vanish, Hitting Blacks HardMAY 24, 2015 Most strikingly, the typical middle-income black family lives in a neighborhood with lower incomes than the typical low-income white Not far behind those two areas are: Gary, Ind.; Bridgeport and Hartford, Conn.; Buffalo; Albany; Chicago; and Philadelphia. Among the 100 largest metro areas, the 25 with the largest gaps also include Cleveland, Detroit, Boston, New York and Baltimore. Generally, the neighborhood gap tends to be biggest in metro areas with large black populations, though that’s not an ironclad relationship. Birmingham, Ala., Atlanta and Memphis, which have very large black populations, have neighborhood gaps not so different from average. The other end of the spectrum — where white and black families of similar incomes tend to live in economically similar neighborhoods — is dominated by midsize Western metro areas. There is virtually no white-black neighborhood gap (after taking income into account) in El Paso or Riverside, Calif. Also in the bottom 25 are Albuquerque; Phoenix; Las Vegas; Portland, Ore.; San Jose and Sacramento, Calif; and Seattle. (This list reminds me that, in several respects, the West seems more comfortable with diversity than any other part of the country. Rather than being divided on white-black lines, much of the West is a multiracial melting pot. The metro areas with the largest gay and lesbian shares of the population are also disproportionately Western, a recent Gallup analysis found.) Of course, the neighborhood gap arises in part from voluntary choices. Many Americans, of all races, prefer to live among people who are similar to them, note Mr. Reardon and his colleagues Lindsay Fox and Joseph Townsend. For African-Americans, such a choice often means living in lower-income areas, given the racial disparity in incomes. Continue reading the main story RECENT COMMENTS Cathleen 29 minutes ago Black families on Long Island are limited to living in areas that are mostly minority. These areas tend to have school districts that do... Dr. Connie Hassett-Walker 29 minutes ago The NY Times headline makes it sound like this - Black middle class families living in or near poor neighborhoods - is news and newly... Josh 29 minutes ago A lot of White folks that could afford to live in better neighborhoods stay where they are because it is paid for, they don’t need to... SEE ALL COMMENTS But the neighborhood gap is also a reflection of the wealth gap: White families have considerably higher net worth than black families, even after controlling for income, Federal Reserve data shows. A white family making $50,000 is much more likely than a black family to have the savings for a down payment on a house in a middle-class neighborhood. Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads