Fun with the Census: Housing data 1890-1930
Okay, I am a bad researcher. There is a Census report that I've probably photocopied several times but I keep losing it, and forgetting it's exact title. So in that vein, I share with y'all a portion of a census report that I failed to copy the title page for...In 1890 25.5% of District homes were owner occupied, 74.5% were rentals. 1900, 23.4 owned, 73.5% rented, and then there is a tenure unknown part that I'm just going to ignore. 1910, 24.4 owned, 72.3 rented. 1920, 29.6 owned, 68.3 rented. 1930, 37.6 owned, 59.9 rented.
Now in the then Census tracts of 10 & 11, 10 being N. Cap, K, 7th and S, and 11 being 7th, K, 15th and S, there are some fun demographics for 1930. Tract 10 was 17.8% native white, 6.2 foreign white, and 75.5 Negro. Tract 11, was 51.7% native white, 8.4 foreign white and 39.7 black. Track 10 had the highest percentage of African Americans in the District in 1930, compared to all the other tracks. Anacostia at the time, Tract 30, was only 24% Negro.
Labels: history
posted by Mari @ 4.12.07
4 Comments:
"native white" ?
i'm guessing they weren't 'redskins'...
very interesting.
thanks for the posting, this is something i'll research further.
As opposed to Italians from Italy, whites or yiddish speaking Russians, from Russia whites.
I got my data from http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/index.htm
It's work poking around and trying to hunt down the DC info in all those PDF files.
How about a few bar graphs to help the presentation?
Can't figure out how to put a decent table on this blog, so bar graphs are beyond me.
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