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Hope Community GeoDemographics
  -- a loGIStical strategies briefing document

Hope Community Inc. is a New York city community based not-for-profit affordable housing organization focused on the East Harlem community and surrounding neighborhoods. Through economic development, social service partnerships and other efforts, it seeks to enhance opportunities and infrastructure. See this document online.

HopeCI and similar organizations need geographic, demographic and economic data to better assess situations. By knowing more about where we are, and how change is occurring, we are better able to develop and target activities and operations for improvement. This brief has been developed to illustrate access to and use of some of these data.

HopeCI Geography
HopeCI operations are focused in the area shown in the following map. This view characterizes the area with a census tract overlay. These statistical areas, covering the U.S. wall-to-wall, often equivalence neighborhoods and average 4,000 population. The census tracts are shown with bold boundaries and labeled with yellow 15-character tract "geocodes". Consider two tracts focused here .. tracts 36061019800 (see pointer) and adjacent tract 36061019600. Click links to see how many people live here and more about their living environment. Map at right is a broader view of area shown below.


Adding Other Data
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Examine affordable housing using data driven methods. Resources to communicate with and inform stakeholders.
 
Explore Using Web GIS
Use the Visual Data Analytics (VDA) Web GIS. Click here to start VDA. Below is a broader view of map at left. Cross-hatch area is ZIP 10029. Labels show tract code and Hispanic population. See how-to-create details here. Equip stakeholders with employable skills to use these tools. Find out what this map can tell you; share with others; Advance communications.


Examine Location-Based Demographics
Characteristics of the census tract (36061016600) associated with the Hope CI location (174 E. 104th Street, New York, NY 10029) based on ACS 2019 are shown below. This profile can be generated for any address using the Location-Based Demographics tool.
  Item Value Percent
  Total Population 6,377 100.0
  . Gender
  .. Male 2,884 45.2
  .. Female 3,493 54.8
  . Age
  .. Age 00-04 317 5.0
  .. Age 05-09 259 4.1
  .. Age 10-14 311 4.9
  .. Age 15-19 254 4.0
  .. Age 20-24 442 6.9
  .. Age 25-29 928 14.6
  .. Age 30-34 766 12.0
  .. Age 35-39 566 8.9
  .. Age 40-44 497 7.8
  .. Age 45-49 428 6.7
  .. Age 50-54 269 4.2
  .. Age 55-59 467 7.3
  .. Age 60-64 241 3.8
  .. Age 65-69 139 2.2
  .. Age 70-74 190 3.0
  .. Age 75-79 40 0.6
  .. Age 80-84 211 3.3
  .. Age 85up 52 0.8
  .. Age 05-17 705 11.1
  .. Age 18up 5,355 84.0
  .. Age 65up 632 9.9
  . Race/Origin
  .. White alone 3,539 55.5
  .. Black alone 881 13.8
  .. Amer Indian/Alaska Native alone 63 1.0
  .. Asian alone 308 4.8
  .. Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0
  .. Some other race 1,507 23.6
  .. Two or more races 79 1.2
  .. Hispanic (of any race) 3,666 57.5
  . Citizens 5,718 89.7
  Social Characteristics
  . Households 2,819 87.1
  .. Families 1,135 35.1
  ... Married Couple Families 608 18.8
  Economic Characteristics
  . Median Household Income 40,402
  . Median Family Income 37,606
  Housing Characteristics
  . Total Housing Units 3,238 100.0
  .. Occupied Housing Units (Households) 2,819 87.1
  ... Owner Occupied Housing Units 134 4.1
  . Median Housing Value 617,300
  . Median Gross Rent 1,172


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