The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #115315 Message #2467413
Posted By: PoppaGator
16-Oct-08 - 12:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Do you fit your community's profile?
Subject: RE: BS: Do you fit your community's profile?
At my former family home, I am placed in the "Monied 'Burbs," and I'm a 75% match ~ almost a close a "match" (80%) as I am in my "Minority Central" current home.
Are the Monied Burbs really that closely similar to minority world?
They use the zipcode to place you in a county. I suppose that in very sparsely populated rural areas, there might be a one-to-one correspondence between postal code and county, but not in either of my two reported "homes."
There are about a dozen different zipcodes in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, and probably at least twice that many in Union Count, New Jersey. In both cases, some of the zipcodes define fairly affluent areas, while others designate much older and poorer neighborhoods.
My New Orleans zipcode probably does qualify as "Minority Central" about as well as any other neighborhood in the city, but my old neighborhood in the west end of Plainfield NJ (07063) is definitely NOT the same kind of "monied 'burb" as places like Westfield and Summit, elsewhere in Union County.