Eau Claire: Percent of Whites and Minorities
Moved into the Area in the Past 10 Years
 Whites and Minorities tend to inhabit different areas.  White families tend to move into newly built homes and white college students live in apartments in the university district while they attend college.  
As we look at the white demographic map we can see that a higher percentage (59-71%)of recently moved persons are located in Northside Hill & Northside River Fronts, Central Business District (CBD), the University Area and Randall Park and the Westside as well as the track to the east of Putnam Heights outlined by Hastings Way, Hwy 94 and Fairfax St.  For the Randall Park, Westside, the University Area, CBD, Northside Hill and River Fronts neighborhoods this is due to the large number of apartments allowing for a constant change of inhabitants.  This is especially evident in the Randall Park and University Areas with the change of university students.  As for the region east of Putnam Heights this influx of inhabitants is due to a recent increase in homes in the area. 

 

You can also see that very few people (< 34%) have moved into Putnam Heights and the Town of Brunswick.  In the Putnam Heights Neighborhood many of the homes were built in the 60's and 70's and many of the owners have stayed in the area with little new inhabitants in the past decade.  The Town of Brunswick is in the country and many of the homes are owned by farmers and they have stayed in that area for the past decade as well to maintain their farmland

 

 
   Minorities also tend to inhabit in the same areas as their own race.  The minorities that I looked at included: Blacks, Native Americans, Asians, Hispanics & Other.
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Over 91% of the minorities that have moved into the Central Business District (CBD) and the area south of Putnam Heights have moved there in the past 10 years.  In fact in CBD 100% of the minorities living there have moved in in the past 10 years.  This is likely due to the large amount of apartments in this area and the fact that minorities and people of the same ethnicity like to live in the same area.

 

There are very few minorities (< 40%) that have moved into the University Area, 3rd Ward and Putnam Heights in the past 10 years.  In the University Area this is because there are few minorities that attend the university and live in this area. In the 3rd Ward there are few minorities because this area is made up of professionals and few minorities are professionals.  As for the Putnam Heights area many of these homes were built in the 60's and 70's and many of the owners have stayed in the area with little new inhabitants in the past decade.

 
   When comparing minorities to whites many of them have recently moved into similar areas such as the Central Business District (CBD) and not moved into the same area of Putnam Heights.  However, the whites tend to move into newer homes or attend the University and live in the University area where the minorities are not able to do this.  Also minorities tend to live more densely with their own ethnicity evident by the 100% density of minorities compared to the top density of 71% of whites.
Source: 2000 US Census

Created by Aleisha Urness on 08 June 2007

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