Category: General

The Elite 100: America’s Wealthiest Neighborhoods

The wealthiest 100 neighborhoods in the United States have similar racial make-up as the Higley 1000. There was a slightly higher percentage of Non-Hispanic Whites (91.5%) and significantly fewer Asian-Americans and African-Americans than in the larger list. Hispanics and “Others” were about as well represented in the 57,362 households found in these Elite 100 neighborhoods.
Asian-Americans [...]

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Posted in General, Racial Diversity on Jun 7th, 2008, 10:14 am by Stephen Higley  6 comments   

Look Here to Find Your Higley 1000 Metro Area and Neighborhood

For those of you who are interested in looking at how the neighborhoods in your metro area are ranked in the Higley 1000……… CLICK HERE to go directly to the article Neighborhood Summary by Metro Area……. or click on the link to the right in the Navigation box entitled Neighborhood Summary by Metro Area.
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Posted in General, Metro Briefs on Jun 6th, 2008, 1:18 pm by Stephen Higley     

Wealthy Neighborhoods: City vs. Suburb

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 [...]

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Posted in General, The US Census, Uncategorized on Jun 3rd, 2008, 1:16 pm by Stephen Higley     

Racial Segregation in Manhattan’s Higley 1000 Neighborhoods

There are few Higley 1000 neighborhoods in central cities. The two exceptions to this rule are Manhattan and San Francisco. Urban neighborhoods that are based on Block Groups are usually too heterogeneous in terms of housing options to qualify for the list. As a rule, any substantial number of rental units will bring down the [...]

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Posted in General, Metro Briefs, Racial Diversity on Feb 5th, 2008, 5:10 pm by Stephen Higley     

New York City: General Patterns of Wealth

The New York City metro area dominates the Higley 1000 with 223 Neighborhoods. Because of its size and complexity, I hope my readers will be able to help me further refine the proper nomenclature for individual neighborhoods. I will write a series of general postings on each of the major concentrations of Higley 1000 neighborhoods [...]

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Posted in General, Metro Briefs on Jan 30th, 2008, 9:39 am by Stephen Higley     

Republicans & Democrats in Greenwich, Connecticut

Greenwich, Connecticut is one of many of this great nation’s “ground zeros” when it comes to vast wealth. Greenwich is a mixture of Social Register money and gargantuan Hedge Fund Nouveaus. The National Edition of The New York Times (May 28th) had a fascinating article about fund raising for the upcoming presidential race and broke [...]

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Posted in General on Jun 5th, 2007, 8:32 pm by Stephen Higley     

Welcome to the Higley 1000!

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 [...]

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Posted in General, The US Census on Mar 10th, 2007, 1:49 pm by Stephen Higley  3 comments   

 

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