The town where I spent my early childhood, Orinda, is 84.4% white, has a bare handful of Chinese and Japanese Americans, a smattering of other Asian ethnicities, and no Black people at all. Median income is $117,000/year. 97.8% have graduated high school, 73.9% college, and 34.3% beyond.
The town where I spent the rest of my childhood, Walnut Creek, is 80% white, 6% Hispanic, 1.1% Black (the site notes that this is
significantly
(their emphasis) below the state average), and a tiny tiny hint of everyone else. Median income $63,000. 95% of the folks have HS degrees, 54% bachelor's, 20% beyond.
San Francisco is 43.6% white and contains a sizeable chunk of just about everyone else, with Irish being the single largest ancestry for white folks. Median income as of 2000 was $55,000. 81% of us finished high school, 45% college, and 16.4% something above and beyond.
For Belmont in 2002:
0 murders (0.0 per 100,000)
10 rapes (38.4 per 100,000)
10 robberies (38.4 per 100,000)
70 assaults (268.8 per 100,000)
199 burglaries (764.0 per 100,000)
224 larceny counts (860.0 per 100,000)
40 auto thefts (153.6 per 100,000)
City-data.com crime index = 187.4 (higher means more crime, US average = 330.6)
(and that is an increase from 2001)
I think this is my favorite so far:
Mean travel time to work: 27.1 minutes
LA:
654 murders (17.1 per 100,000)
1,415 rapes (36.9 per 100,000)
Pretty sure Milwaukee beats that easily.
ETA: 111 murders (18.3 per 100,000);
326 rapes (53.8 per 100,000)
It's easy for me to convince myself that no one I know would kill me.
Or at any rate, that I deserved it.
my zip code:
Population (2000): 71,308
Zip code 11372 satellite photo by USGS Housing units: 25,398
Land area: 0.7 sq. mi.
Water area: 0.0 sq. mi.
White population: 35617
Black population: 2074
American Indian population: 452
Asian population: 12220
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population: 62
Some other race population: 15892
Two or more races population: 4991
Urban population: 71308
Rural population: 0
Median age: 34.8
Average household size: 2.86
Median household income (1999): $39084
So far I think I'm ahead in the "whitest home town" game....
I can't remember how white we are, but 47% have a bachelor's.
Also, the way they do distance is confusing to me. Is it from the center of Downtown? Because they have Boeing Field as being 8 miles from the city, but it's within city limits, and the north end of it is 5 miles from downtown, seeing as that's where I live and all.
Also, no crime stats listed for San Francisco. Whuh?
And having absolutely nothing to do with American towns, though it does concern America, what's the American equivalent of Digestive biscuits?
this is what I really love on my zip code page:
First ancestries reported:
* Other groups: 45848
* Irish: 2116
* Italian: 1903
* United States or American: 1341
* Polish: 1267
* Russian: 1053
* German: 939
* West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 764
* Ukrainian: 451
* Arab:: 428
* English: 396
* Romanian: 390
* Greek: 359
* Brazilian: 322
* Subsaharan African:: 263
* Jamaican: 261
* Hungarian: 226
* French (except Basque): 199
* Afghan: 181
* Croatian: 173
* Egyptian: 164
* African: 160
* Guyanese: 157
* Austrian: 152
* European: 148
* Arab/Arabic: 146
* Serbian: 140
* West Indian: 139
* Haitian: 139
* Turkish: 119
* Yugoslavian: 114
* Eastern European: 99
* Czech: 91
* Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 87
* Scotch-Irish: 86
* Scottish: 83
* Portuguese: 79
* British West Indian: 76
* Armenian: 74
* Canadian: 68
* British: 68
* Swedish: 64
* Israeli: 62
* Moroccan: 60
* French Canadian: 52
* Czechoslovakian: 48
* Latvian: 47
* Dutch: 47
* Lithuanian: 45
* Bulgarian: 39
* Swiss: 39
* Other Subsaharan African: 37
* Belgian: 34
* Lebanese: 30
* Norwegian: 29
* Ethiopian: 29
* Basque: 27
* Welsh: 25
* Albanian: 24
* Iranian: 22
* Celtic: 22
* Cape Verdean: 21
* Palestinian: 21
* Barbadian: 20
* Slovak: 20
* South African: 16
* Dutch West Indian: 14
* Slavic: 10
* Belizean: 10
* Other West Indian: 10
* Danish: 9
* Slovene: 8
* Bermudan: 8
* Soviet Union: 7
* Syrian: 7
