Segregated City, Segregated Suburbs

To What Extent Are They Products of Black-White Socioeconomic Differentials

Bibliographic Data

ID11670364
AuthorsJohn E Farley (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume7
Issue2
Pages164-171
Publication date1986-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2747/0272-3638.7.2.164
OpenAlexW2087622226
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

This study uses the technique of indirect standardization to assess the extent to which 1980 housing segregation patterns in the St. Louis metropolitan area are the result of socioeconomic differences between blacks and whites. Previous studies have shown socioeconomic status to be relatively unimportant as a cause of black-white segregation, but, in the past, segregation has in large part taken the form of exclusion of blacks from the suburbs. In St. Louis in 1980, however, about half of the black population was suburban—considerably more than in the past and more than in most other metropolitan areas in 1980. In this context, racial segregation remains, but takes the form of segregation within both the city and its suburbs. Indirect standardizations based on housing cost show that (1) less than 25% of the segregation among census tracts in the metropolitan area and about 20% in the city are attributable to differences in housing cost; (2) despite the black suburbanization that has occurred, blacks remain substantially underrepresented in the suburbs relative to their housing cost distribution and the cost of housing available in the suburbs; and (3) less than 15% of the black-white segregation among suburban places is attributable to the housing cost factor. In fact, very few suburbs had racial compositions at all similar to what would be expected based on their housing cost distributions. It is concluded that factors related to housing affordability and socioeconomic differences between blacks and whites continue to be relatively unimportant as causes of housing segregation, even in the context of increased black suburbanization

Biology · Demographic economics · Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Population · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · White (mutation · Demography · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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