Neighborhood Types and Demographics

Abstract

terms of educational attainment and racial composition. Research spurred by renewed interest in these differences finds that the neighborhood a child grows up in can influence adult outcomes, such as college attainment and income (see, e.g., Chetty et al., 2019, and Fogli and Guerrieri, 2019). In this essay, we group U.S. neighborhoods based on the characteristics of their residents and find that most can be organized into one of five distinct groups. In our next essay, we further explore how other economic relationships differ across the neighborhood types.