In the statistical study of neighborhoods in Chicago, 2010, 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 dimensions; and
[c] a short name derived mechanically from the scores on the three dimensions. A simple descriptive phrase (like “Welloff” or “NonEng”) indicates a standard deviation from the mean of .5 to 1 ; the same phrase preceded by V (e.g., “VWelloff” for very well-off) indicates a standard deviation from the mean of between 1 and 1.5; repeated “V”‘s are used for additional half-standard deviations from the mean.
The ten neighborhood types are:
1. (64.68 67.87 45.98). VWelloffVVUrban. Well-off, very urban neighborhoods. Prosperous inner-city areas with “professional” populations. The North Side Lakefront, with outliers in Hyde Park, Evanston, Oak Park, and a very few suburban apartment districts. Relatively few non-English speakers.
2. (52.24 67.90 52.26). VVUrban. Somewhat less well-off very urban areas, mostly found on the edges of the more thoroughly gentrified tracts of type 1. Generally more non-English speakers than in type 1.
3. (66.01 37.83 44.54). VVWelloffVSuburbanNative. Very well-off suburban neighborhoods with few non-English speakers. Old-line wealthy suburbs, largely in northern Cook County and in parts of DuPage County.
4. (62.30 46.44 45.88). VWelloff. Prosperous neighborhoods, mostly in suburban areas, with few non-English speakers. Mostly on the edges of tracts of type 3.
5. (54.46 40.28 44.32). SuburbanNative. Suburban neighborhoods with few non-English speakers. Very common. Forms a rough ring around the more distinctive inner suburbs.
6. (50.20 46.60 45.88). Neutral. None of the dimension scores is even half a standard deviation from the mean, but these areas tend to be suburban with few non-English speakers. Generally inner-suburban areas on all sides of the city.
7. (33.38 63.08 41.63). VVPoorVUrbanNative. The core, generally impoverished African-American neighborhoods of the South and West Sides and Gary.
8. (37.91 51.75 44.11). VPoorNative. Generally African-American neighborhoods in the outer parts of Chicago as well as in Gary, Maywood, and a few older central places like Joliet and Kankakee.
9. (41.03 54.44 76.75). PoorVVVVNonEng. The core Hispanic areas: Little Village and parts of Humboldt Park. More than two standard deviations above the mean on dimension 3.
10. (46.21 51.01 64.10). NonEng. Mostly urban or inner-suburban areas that have many (but not an overwhelming number of) non-English speakers. Includes many tracts on the Northwest Side of Chicago where there are substantial numbers of relatively recent immigrants from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, as well as similar areas in the inner northwestern suburbs.