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Old 11-13-2021, 07:12 AM
 
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All this visual tells me, is that there is a mess load of money northwest, west, and southwest between 95 and 495.
Pretty much and we knew that already. It still doesn’t make Braintree lower middle class. For the record I could care less about Braintree other than it’s false that the majority of people living there are lower middle class. If anything the demographic has changed the past few years and there’s more white collar professionals there than ever before. People priced out of other places have moved there and the red line is also an attraction.
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Old 11-13-2021, 07:37 AM
 
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All this visual tells me, is that there is a mess load of money northwest, west, and southwest between 95 and 495.
And Framingham is a little island of low/average surrounded by seas of high/1% earners.
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Old 11-13-2021, 08:35 AM
 
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Going by this map, I would say the best examples of "lower middle class" (while we are on that topic) would be Randolph, Weymouth, Hyde Park, Everett, and good chunks of Quincy, Chelsea, Malden, Revere, Lynn, Peabody, Framingham, and Marlborough.



Biggest surprise I think is Chelsea appearing so average (could it finally be "gentrifying"???). And didn't realize South Framingham was that low income. Also, interesting how West Roxbury as a low income area and a top 1% area very close to each other. You expect those kinds of disparities in JP, but not at all in Westie.



This map needs to go further north and south, it skews too much to the west (shocking for this forum, I know).
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Old 11-13-2021, 08:48 AM
 
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Going by this map, I would say the best examples of "lower middle class" (while we are on that topic) would be Randolph, Weymouth, Hyde Park, Everett, and good chunks of Quincy, Chelsea, Malden, Revere, Lynn, Peabody, Framingham, and Marlborough.



Biggest surprise I think is Chelsea appearing so average (could it finally be "gentrifying"???). And didn't realize South Framingham was that low income. Also, interesting how West Roxbury as a low income area and a top 1% area very close to each other. You expect those kinds of disparities in JP, but not at all in Westie.



This map needs to go further north and south, it skews too much to the west (shocking for this forum, I know).
People started buying up condos near the waterfront 20+ years ago and continued slowly after so that. That trend seemed to fizzle out though, but those who still own them may account for some of the skew. I don't think places like Bellingham Square have gentrified. Prattville and areas around Everett are more middle class as well.
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Old 11-13-2021, 09:08 AM
 
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People started buying up condos near the waterfront 20+ years ago and continued slowly after so that. That trend seemed to fizzle out though, but those who still own them may account for some of the skew. I don't think places like Bellingham Square have gentrified. Prattville and areas around Everett are more middle class as well.

The condos yes, but much of it (including Bellingham Sq.) is still quite ghetto last I knew. I just would have expected to see a lot more "red" in there. Parts of East Boston are still "red", and I don't consider that to be poorer than Chelsea.
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Old 11-13-2021, 09:18 AM
 
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Eastie probably has more housing project units.
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Old 11-13-2021, 10:35 AM
 
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Going by this map, I would say the best examples of "lower middle class" (while we are on that topic) would be Randolph, Weymouth, Hyde Park, Everett, and good chunks of Quincy, Chelsea, Malden, Revere, Lynn, Peabody, Framingham, and Marlborough.



Biggest surprise I think is Chelsea appearing so average (could it finally be "gentrifying"???). And didn't realize South Framingham was that low income. Also, interesting how West Roxbury as a low income area and a top 1% area very close to each other. You expect those kinds of disparities in JP, but not at all in Westie.



This map needs to go further north and south, it skews too much to the west (shocking for this forum, I know).
Here is a bigger map. With a bigger map you lose some details.

Anyway, based on the map, I expect a boom in Reading, Burlington, Wilmington, Wakefield area.
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Old 11-13-2021, 10:36 AM
 
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Basically, we can see

upper middle class: Winchester, Weston, Dover,...
typical middle class: Burlington, Natick, Needham...
lower middle class: Stoneham, Watertown, Braintree...
lower class: Lynn, south of Boston, Framingham...

Mixture of upper and middle: Arlington, Newton, Milton...
Mixture of everything: Melrose, Cambridge, Medford...
I can't open up the image. Where can a get a full picture of that map?

If you can give me the link, I'd like to take a look. Thank you!
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Old 11-13-2021, 10:45 AM
 
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I can't open up the image. Where can a get a full picture of that map?

If you can give me the link, I'd like to take a look. Thank you!
Sure you can use https://bestneighborhood.org/
There are many options: income, race, education...
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Old 11-13-2021, 10:59 AM
 
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Sure you can use https://bestneighborhood.org/
There are many options: income, race, education...
Interesting tool.
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