Monthly Archives: April 2024

The maps below present a classification of Chicago’s 2020 residential census tracts based on multivariate analysis. This approach (sometimes called social area analysis or factorial ecology in geography and sociology) is often used to classify small areas in cities. The … Continue reading →

The analysis of neighborhood types in Chicago in 2020 suggests that three oblique key-cluster dimensions underlie the 34 variables used in the computations. The dimensions are listed below with their correlations to the most salient dimension definers (note that the names of the … Continue reading →

Here’s a list of the 34 variables used in the analysis of socioeconomic data for Chicago-area 2020 census tracts. The first seven variables plus the age variables (10-14) consist of data from the 2020 Census. The other variables come from … Continue reading →

In the statistical study of neighborhoods in Chicago, 2020, cluster analysis of the three dimensions underlying the 34 variables yielded ten neighborhood types. For each neighborhood type, the following list includes: [a] the neighborhood-type number; [b] the T-scores on the three … Continue reading →