The Neighborhoods: 1970 - 2000 Comparisons

There was a notable improvement in the SES index for the West End in the 90's in spite of a continued decline in the family structure index.

The gains in tract 11 are large and probably reflect gentrification.

Mt Auburn has stabilized.

In the 1990s two tracts dropped to SES II status.

In 1970 Camp Washington had the lowest SES index of any Cincinnati neighborhood.

Tracts 29 and 30 declined in the 1990s.

Walnut Hills has not fully recovered from the trauma it experienced in the 1960's and 1970's but has stabilized and shown signs of revitalization.

The school dropout rate fell dramatically in Evanston.

The school dropout rate fell dramatically.

East Walnut Hills continued to improve.

Clearly a new social reality is in the making.

Mt. Washington's rank among the neighborhoods was 43 in 1970, 41 in 2000.

The median family income is $83,500.

Hyde Park's social indicators changed little.

Oakley has the same income as Clifton.

Neighborhood organizations have worked hard to reverse Madisonville's decline. They have succeeded.

Kennedy Heights has stabilized.

Kennedy Heights' family structure index has improved during the 1970 - 2000 period.

During the 1990s, the family structure index fell from 71 to 43.

The authors believe that Roselawn...will eventually stabilize.

It is clear that Bond Hill lost the struggle to be an interracial neighborhood.

The changes... are associated with newcomer families inspired by upward mobility.

In 1990, North Avondale held the same rank in SES that it held in 1970.

High unemployment and joblessness help account for Avondale's relative lack of upward mobility.

Several of the uptown neighborhoods have experienced decline. Clifton remains a high SES enclave within the central city.

Northside remained a neighborhood of diversity.

In 1990 South Cumminsville-Millvale had the lowest SES Index in the city.

In 1990 South-Cumminsville had the lowest SES index in the city.

Because it is a public housing area, Winton Hills is poor by definition.

Change in the family structure was a major factor in Mt. Airy.

Sixty six (66) percent of this neighborhood's households are female headed.

Tract 87 slid close to the bottom of the SES scale.

The poverty rate is 56 percent.

East Price Hill sustained a further decline in its SES Index during the 1990s.

Westwood has become a very diverse neighborhood.

Westwood has the second highest concentration of poor whites in the city.

The number of 16-19 year olds decreased dramatically

Its rank among the neighborhoods rose.

Its social indicators have been remarkable stable.

The dropout rate increased.

Chapter 9

THE NEIGHBORHOODS: 1970 - 2000 COMPARISONS

Previous sections of this report have been concerned with establishing the broad pattern of the distribution of social indicators in the city. The authors feel that the concept of socioeconomic status, especially when it is supplemented with the other kinds of data available, is a valuable social indicator for needs assessment purposes. The maps of the four social areas show the broad pattern of the city's socioeconomic structure.

In the first edition of this study (1974) care was taken to point out the limitations of "ecological analysis" - the utilization of statistics aggregated at the census tract, neighborhood, or social area level. It was pointed out that this type of analysis is subject to the "ecological fallacy", the attribution of statistical averages to all the diverse individuals in a given geographic unit. In the 1970 Neighborhood Descriptions, therefore, the reader was informed about the relative diversity or homogeneity of each neighborhood. This exercise will not be repeated here. The reader is hereby referred to the first edition for that discussion. The focus of the following narrative will be to outline changes in the neighborhoods that have occurred since 1970, and especially the 1990 - 2000 period. Both Appendix II and III, as well as Table 10 have been used for the neighborhood descriptions.

Small changes in 1970 - 1980 SES index and SES rank for a tract or neighborhood may be accidental. These accidental changes are caused by the fact that tracts and neighborhoods were added and deleted. Example: Linwood was a new tract and neighborhood in 1980. Its insertion on the list of tracts and neighborhoods caused all tracts and neighborhoods with a higher SES index to have a slightly higher SES index. Gains or losses of less than six points should not be regarded as significant.

	Table 9
	Cincinnati Neighborhoods, Overall SES Index Changes, 1970-2000
SES Rank					Neighborhood	SES index				Magnitude of change
1970		1980	1990	2000		1970	1980	1990	2000	1970- 1980	1980- 1990	1990- 2000	1970- 2000
		13	2	1	Fay Apartments	26.3	34.4	14.0	15.0	8.1	-20.4	1.0	-11.3
4		4	3	2	N. Fairmount - English Woods	21.5	17.8	14.2	15.4	-3.7	-3.6	1.2	-6.1
7		2	1	3	S. Cumminsville-Millvale	27.4	11.2	13.2	15.4	-16.2	2.0	2.2	-12.0
		1	5	4	Over-The-Rhine	21.6	9.2	18.8	15.6	-12.5	9.6	-3.1	-6.0
9		7	7	5	Winton Hills	32.4	19.0	22.2	17.4	-13.4	3.2	-4.8	-15.0
3		6	4	6	Lower Price Hill	21.0	18.6	15.6	19.2	-2.4	-3.0	3.6	-1.8
1		3	8	7	Camp Washington	16.2	17.2	26.4	27.2	1.0	9.2	0.8	11.0
8		5	6	8	West End	27.8	18.3	19.8	28.5	-9.5	1.5	8.7	0.7
13		16	11	9	S. Fairmount	42.5	40.2	34.6	29.4	-2.3	-5.6	-5.2	-13.1
17		11	10	10	Avondale	52.8	32.4	31.3	31.0	-20.4	-1.0	-0.4	-21.8
10		8	14	11	Walnut Hills	34.6	23.8	37.9	31.5	-10.8	14.1	-6.4	-3.1
------		9	13	12	Linwood	------	27.8	37.6	35.0	------	9.8	-2.6	------
5		14	12	13	Sedamsville -Riverside	25.1	39.0	35.8	35.4	13.9	-3.2	-0.4	10.3
19		20	15	14	East Price Hill	56.8	47.6	41.8	38.0	-9.2	-5.8	-3.8	-18.8
18		17	16	15	Evanston	53.4	40.3	45.1	43.7	-13.1	4.8	-1.4	-9.7
14		21	21	16	Corryville	43.3	50.6	55.3	43.9	7.3	4.7	-11.4	0.6
2		10	9	17	East End	18.3	28.5	29.2	46.4	10.2	0.7	17.2	28.1
11		12	17	18	Mt. Auburn	34.7	33.4	47.5	46.9	-1.3	14.1	-0.7	12.2
32		25	20	19	Bond Hill	87.1	58.3	55.2	47.2	-28.8	-3.1	-8.0	-39.9
20		19	19	20	Northside	58.9	46.9	52.8	48.8