be useful to share some census numbers:
http://www.city-data.com/neighborhood/Powderhorn-Park-Minneapolis-MN.html
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/neighborhoods/powderhorn_profile_home.asp
Notable is this pie chart on race (not sure in 2000 or 2008):
http://pics.city-data.com/nraces/33247.jpg
And these numbers:
Subject 1990 2000 % Change
White 5,294 4,467 -15.6%
Black or African American 1,460 1,987 36.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native 684 477 -30.3%
Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other
Pacific Islander 308 454 47.4%
Some other race 118 1,034 776.3%
Two or more races n/a 538 -
ETHNICITY
Hispanic or Latino 206 1,971 856.8%
Also, here you'll note that Powderhorn is about not quite half home owner
occupied and over half rental:
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/neighborhoods/powderhorn_housing.asp
It is notable that in 2000, for renters the median time in their current
residence was one year and for home owners it was eight years. (I am not sure
what the average number of years that renters or home owners stay.)
No stats on homeownership in the neighborhood by race or ethnicity is listed on
these sites.
City-wide stats on that from:
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cped/docs/Minneapolis_Fast_Facts.pdf
Home ownership by race
white home owner households 63.5%
non-white home owner households 28.4%
2008 one year estimate
Last released: September 2009
Source: Census Bureau- American Community Survey (ACS)
Nationally, 47.9 of African-American households own their home and
49.7 of Hispanic households own their homes according to:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0883976.html
More ...
Percentage of population below poverty level:
Powderhorn Park: 21.3%
Minneapolis: 16.9%
Percentage of people that speak English not well or not at all:
This neighborhood: 13.7%
Minneapolis: 5.8%
Percentage of people born in this state:
Here: 42.0%
Minneapolis: 52.0%
Percentage of people born in another U.S. state:
Powderhorn Park: 32.9%
Minneapolis: 32.6%
Percentage of native residents but born outside the U.S.:
Here: 1.0%
city: 0.9%
Percentage of foreign born residents:
Here: 24.1%
Minneapolis: 14.5%
Do others have other statistics to share?
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.org
LONG P.S. Speaking on the behalf of E-Democracy.org we are very interested in
how the forums we host can better express both the wide diversity of voices in
a community as well as seek better representation in the membership.
We are out pounding the pavement to raise funds to support the kind of
inclusive outreach that gets this done. We have some funded efforts underway in
Cedar Riverside and Frogtown where minorities are the majority:
http://e-democracy.org/inclusion (We have a pending announcement with good
news should Powderhorn and Phillips participants take up the opportunity.)
More soon, but nationally according to the Neighbors Online study, more
Internet using women (9%) than men (5%) belong to neighborhood e-mail
lists/forums and among whites (8%) and African-Americans (8%) there is parity
while Latinos (who are online) are 3%. The biggest divide is by income - 15%
for those households over 75K and 3% for those under 50K. Yikes. Our guess is
that lots of small housing developments have private online groups quite
different than our public model. We are credited with helping inspire the study
by PewInternet.org: http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/858 Now, let's change
the numbers.