Last time, we looked at the views of prisons that make up the most predominantly male census tracts. This time, we’ll look at some of the most female census tracts. As you may recall from the top 10 post on the subject, there are some prominent women’s prisons, such as the Danbury Federal Correctional Institute:
However, the top female census tracts also have some of the country’s prominent women’s colleges.
|
Census Tract |
County, State |
Estimated percent of all people who are women |
| 560900 |
Wayne, MI |
100% |
| 110200 |
Cayahoga, OH |
99.21% |
| 211100 |
Fairfield, CT |
99.15% |
| 821200 |
Hampshire, MA |
95.5% |
| 822000 |
Hampshire, MA |
95.48% |
| 103602 |
Oklahoma, OK |
91.54% |
| 022500 |
Philadelphia, PA |
85.3% |
| 006803 |
Honolulu, HI |
85% |
| 000100 |
Calhoun, MI |
83.33% |
| 011798 |
Honolulu, HI |
80% |
You may recall a little while ago, we looked at the top 10 census tracts in the country in terms of percentage male and female. If you don’t remember what was unique about many of these tracts, these might jog your memory:
We’ve entered a new free widget into the Sunlight Foundation’s Design for America competition. It’s called the Health Widget and contains a number of health indicators from HHS, CDC, USDA and Census. Like our current widget, it gives people the ability to push interactive maps to their own website. This one, though, is new and includes rankings, data download and print features. You can see our entry here: http://sunlightlabs.com/projects/PMAP2010WIDGET/
Feel free to copy and paste the iframe. It’s there for you.
We’ll be updating our other widgets with these features soon. Stay tuned.
The Census Bureau defines cost burdened renters as households for whom gross rent is 30% or more of household income. Gross rent is the contract rent plus the estimated average monthly cost of utilities (electricity, gas, water and sewer) and fuels (oil, coal, kerosene, wood, etc.) if these are paid by the renter (or paid for the renter by someone else). Gross rent is intended to eliminate differentials that result from varying practices with respect to the inclusion of utilities and fuels as part of the rental payment. Percentage calculations were suppressed in cases where the denominator of the calculation was less than 10 of the unit that is being described (e.g., households, people, householders, etc). Such areas are represented as having “Insufficient Data” in the map. Denominators for percentage calculations were created by summing all of the component data items in a particular dataset.
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With such a highly educated workforce available now a days; what metro areas have the lowest percent of people with a bachelor’s degree? For subscribers, our Claritas data provides estimates for Census-type data at a metro area level. We also have 5-year projections, so in addition to 2000 Census and 2009 Claritas data, subsribers can see projected 2014 data. Educational attainment is under the Education tab.
CBSAs with Lowest Rates of People with a Bachelor’s Degree in 2009
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The Census and Claritas provide data for housing types, with detail down to the blockgroup level. With PolicyMap, users can find concentration of types of homes like; mobile homes, various single family homes, and various multifamily homes. To find mobile homes go to the “Real Estate Analysis” tab, and then “Residential Homes and Buildings.”
Percent of households that lived in mobile homes in 2000
 |
Census Tract |
County, State |
Percent of households that lived in mobile homes in 2000 |
|
012000 |
Benton, WA |
100% |
|
543305 |
Los Angeles, CA |
99.06% |
|
830001 |
Cook, IL |
97.24% |
|
247100 |
Macomb, MI |
95% |
|
004711 |
Clark, NV |
93.57% |
|
770500 |
Cook, IL |
93.36% |
|
010604 |
Allen, IN |
91.14% |
|
504805 |
Santa Clara, CA |
87.59% |
|
970101 |
Valencia, CA |
87.55% |
044004 |
Wyandotte, KS |
87.24% |
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To see where the nation’s aging housing stock is, we can look at Census and Claritas estimates, with detail down to the block group. Other age buckets include houses built in 1940-1969, 1970-1994, 1995-1998, and 1999-2014. You may wonder how there are statistics for houses built in 2014: this is from Claritas’s 2014 projections.
Estimated percent of all housing units built in 1939 or before, as of 2009
 |
Zip Code, State |
Estimated percent of all housing units built in 1939 or before, as of 2009 |
| 92135, CA |
96.15% |
| 61625, IL |
88.89% |
| 01063, MA |
87.18% |
| 02108, MA |
80.08% |
| 02113, MA |
78.83% |
| 18232, PA |
78.36% |
| 17948, PA |
78.05% |
| 60304, IL |
76.74% |
| 14613, NY |
75.28% |
12305, NY |
72.98% |
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As the nation debates the need for healthcare reform, a question worth asking is: where are the most uninsured populations? The Census’s Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) can provide some answers. They have county and state level data for 2005 and 2006.
Counties with the highest rates of uninsured people in 2006
 |
County, State |
Percent Uninsured 18 to 64 in 2006 |
| Hudspeth, TX |
50.6% |
| Edwards, TX |
49.4% |
| Terrell, TX |
49.1% |
| Webb, TX |
48.9% |
| Jeff Davis, TX |
47.7% |
| Brazos, TX |
45.4% |
| Mason, TX |
45.3% |
| Hall, TX |
45.2% |
| Sherman, TX |
45.2% |
Cimarron, OK |
45% |
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PolicyMap is a new website that allows visitors to search for federally-funded organizations in their area. It also allows people to get basic statistics, such as demographic, educational, and economic information. The
interactive map allows you to easily focus in on areas of interest. Use the tabs at the top to choose what type of information you want to see.
Also note: when you are looking at the statistical map, the source of the data (i.e., United States Census Bureau) is listed on the left-hand side of the screen.
Click here to read this article by the Grafton Library which appeared on Your Dose of MSG on March 16, 2009.
Check out PolicyMap.com, a great resource for finding the location of federally funded institutes nationwide, like public housing, schools, as well as statistics from the census and other data sources. While they do offer a premium service with more features (mostly not useful), the basic service will do a lot for you. You can get maps, reports, and tables of data on a variety of factors. You can layer the different data one on top of the other to correlate things like the location of schools vs. household income, or poverty levels correlated with infant mortality. You can view things so easily, the site truly did amaze me when I started clicking around. You can zoom in and out of the map, change data parameters, or remove choices all with a click. It’s very easy to use, data-rich, and generally awesome. See the example below, and please note that clearly there are not a lot of people of Asian descent where I live.
Click Here to read the full article.
This article by Sarah Houghton-Jan on Librarian in Black on Tuesday March 10th, 2009.
