Eight most diverse Neighborhoods in philadelphia (York, Oxford: 2013, university, gated)

[Aimewitue]

The Pew Charitable Trusts recently came out with its 2013 State of the City report for Philadelphia. The report has a ton of interesting data about the city, and we'll highlight more of it this week.

For now, in light of the controversy this month over PhillyMag's "Being White in Philly" cover story, here are the eight most diverse zip codes in the city, according to the Pew report.

These are the eight neighborhoods in which no racial group makes up more than 50 percent of the zip code's population (the zip codes are listed here in numeric order):

1. West Philadelphia/University City (19104): 36 percent white, 41 percent black, 4 percent Hispanic, 16 percent Asian

2. Olney (19120): 8 percent white, 49 percent black, 28 percent Hispanic, 13 percent Asian

3. North Philadelphia-Yorktown (19122): 28 percent white, 38 percent black, 28 percent Hispanic, 3 percent Asian

4. Northern Liberties/Spring Garden (19123): 41 percent white, 42 percent black, 9 percent Hispanic, 5 percent Asian

5. Northeast-Frankford (19124): 21 percent white, 39 percent black, 33 percent Hispanic, 5 percent Asian

6. Port Richmond (19134): 36 percent white, 17 percent black, 44 percent Hispanic, 2 percent Asian

7. South Philadelphia-West (19145): 44 percent white, 36 percent black, 4 percent Hispanic, 14 percent Asian

8. Northeast-Mayfair/Oxford Circle (19149): 44 percent white, 22 percent black, 17 percent Hispanic, 13 percent Asian



The 8 most diverse neighborhoods in Philadelphia

[checkmatechamp13]

SMH at some of the comments on that article.

In any case, the thing is that these aren't actual "neighborhoods", but rather zip codes with multiple neighborhoods.

* 19104 includes Mantua and Belmont, which are about 90% black.

* I'll give them Olney (even though it's cutting it close to the 50% mark).

* I'll give them 19122, even though there's more Hispanics in the eastern part, and more blacks in the western part.

* 19123 has more whites in Northern Liberties and more blacks in Spring Garden (around 75% each respectively)

* I'll give them 19124 (even though it's a similar situation as 19122)

* 19134 includes part of Kensington, and Port Richmond itself is over 90% white.

* 19145 includes the southern part of Point Breeze (which is obviously mostly black), but the areas down by Oregon Avenue are about 90% white.

* 19149 is the only one I agree with fully.

[HappyRider]

How does 8% white or 2% Asian make a neighborhood "most diverse"?

[FindingZen]

Originally Posted by HappyRider

How does 8% white or 2% Asian make a neighborhood "most diverse"?

Probably because the percentages for the other three categories were all at least 10%.

[rotodome]

Diversity and segregation are not mutually exclusive terms.

For example, most would recognize NYC as being one of the most diverse cities in the country, if not the world; but it's also one of the most segregated cities in the country - as is Philadelphia.

[john_starks]

Originally Posted by rotodome

Diversity and segregation are not mutually exclusive terms.

For example, most would recognize NYC as being one of the most diverse cities in the country, if not the world; but it's also one of the most segregated cities in the country - as is Philadelphia.

yup, it 'apparently' takes a while to get it

i thought philly's better than that

[HappyRider]

50 years ago it was easy to define diversity and segregation. You had black and white. Nowadays, you have all shades in between. Would you call a neighborhood that consists of Mexicans, Asians and say Puerto Ricans only segregated? Is it diverse? Or does diversity mean you must have whites in minority?