Environmental Injustice in the Urban Southwest: A Case Study of Phoenix, Arizona - Design with the Desert: Conservation and Sustainable Development - page 314

TABLE 17.3
Demographic Change in Study Area Tracts
1970

1980 1990 2000

Total Percent Total Percent Total Percent Total Percent

Total population 967,522 100 1,509,052 100 2,091,151 100 3,045,615 100

68,165 100 57,171 100 53,670 100 64,590 100

White non-Latino population 808,955 84 1,226,362 81 1,616,280 77 2,017,231 66

35,974 53 25,707 4 5 20,761 39 13,270 21

Latino population 112,225 12 199,517 13 335,540 16 756,601 25

20,291 30 22,316 39 24,520 46 43,247 67

African American population 31,970 3 47,833 3 73,761 4 113,337 4

10,537 15 7,288 13 6,128 11 5,038 8

Persons in poverty 112,907 12 156,768 10 257,359 12 355,668 12

18,682 27 15,529 27 17,992 34 20,480 32

Median household income $30,926 $27,679 $32,630 $45,322

$20,369 $14,024 $14,576 $25,721

Demographic characteristics of the 90th percentile CHDI tracts (bold) compared to metropolitan phoenix 1970-2000.