Category: The US Census

With good reason, Tucsonans love to sneer at Phoenix: too big, too ugly and with too much out of control growth and the concomitant dreadful traffic problems. (oh yes, and too Conservative too!). However, as the city of Tucson has recently passed the 500,000 population mark and the county is approaching a million residents, Tucson [...]

Central Cities Dominate the top of the Higley 1000
When one looks at the list of the 1,000 wealthiest neighborhoods in the United States, the information is so fine grained, that the larger picture can be lost. In order to give my readers a bit of perspective I have totaled up the the number of [...]

Saint James-Three Village
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The last nexus of wealth on Long Island is the Gold Coast’s poor cousin 20 miles East on Long Island Sound in Suffolk County. I am being a bit facetious in this description as the best roads in Nissequogue and Old Field look and feel [...]

Milwaukee is my home town and I must admit, I’m very partial to the Cream City. In spite of being built on heavy industry, Milwaukee, like Chicago did not let its beautiful Lake Michigan lakefront to be totally surrendered to the almighty dollar. A series of adjacent parks (O’Donnell
One of the aspects that makes Milwaukee [...]

One of the goals of the Higley 1000 is to include as many wealthy neighborhoods or places as I can find. I have scoured this fair country of ours and found some micro-suburbs that are either incorporated or recognized as an unincorporated place by the Census Bureau. Many Censi ago they started calling unincorporated places [...]

Welcome to my new website. I’ve had lots of great ideas about the best way to present my methods to the interested public, but I’ve finally settled on this web site. It’s going to provide a great way to exchange ideas with my readers.
I’ll attempt to describe my methodology as I go [...]