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Table 19.5
Correlates of 2009 census tract income growth since 2000 (Dependent Variable:
Ratio of census tract median income to city median income, 2009)
Independent variables
National West
South
Midwest
Northeast
Distance from center (
100)
1.8514
0.4090
1.7434
2.6140
3.5589
(
9.69)
(
1.42)
(4.00)
(
4.02)
(
6.82)
Distance squared (
10,000)
6.5559
1.7929
3.3529
9.4926
17.8020
(6.88)
(1.55)
(1.36)
(1.99)
(5.59)
% Built before 1939 (in 2000)
0.0833
0.1275
0.1392
0.0314
0.0954
(5.89)
(4.93)
(3.37)
(1.06)
(3.98)
Population density
2000 (
100,000)
0.0365
0.0859
0.1518
0.2165
0.0440
(
2.81)
(
2.17)
(
1.13)
(
2.97)
(
2.84)
% vacant (2000)
0.0046
0.1039
0.2577
0.0921
0.1688
(0.11)
(1.00)
(3.02)
(1.09)
(
2.29)
Prop city SFH detached 2000
4.0816
18.2020
0.6798
6.2705
4.0859
(4.41)
(6.33)
(
0.38)
(2.15)
(2.90)
Prop city gay male HHs 2000
2.8233
4.2528
1.2822
4.1494
3.0535
(6.08)
(4.05)
(1.93)
(3.96)
(2.68)
Prop city lesbian HHs 2000
0.4709
1.0847
0.1857
0.8407
2.8609
(0.75)
(
0.74)
(0.21)
(0.60)
(1.97)
Prop city non-family HHs 2000
3.9326
4.7591
4.5260
5.5860
1.7090
(
3.64)
(
1.96)
(
3.04)
(
2.07)
(0.53)
Prop city total population 2000
4.3294
15.0087
3.7082
5.0160
15.0497
(
2.11)
(
2.61)
(1.16)
(
0.93)
(
2.60)
Prop city black population 2000
3.7095
1.8509
2.3131
6.7662
5.2199
(
7.47)
(
2.63)
(
3.28)
(
4.61)
(
3.04)
Prop city Hispanic
population 2000
2.7676
7.1697
3.1387
2.5198
0.7473
(
5.95)
(
4.59)
(
4.34)
(
2.89)
(
0.63)
Ratio tract med income/
city med income 2000
0.8018
0.7450
0.9031
0.8166
0.7259
(113.83)
(56.48)
(74.11)
(44.03)
(53.19)
Spatial lag of tract/
city income 2009
0.1973
0.1581
0.1754
0.2130
0.2099
(23.68)
(9.49)
(11.93)
(10.91)
(13.10)
City dummies
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Pseudo R
2
0.800
0.875
0.867
0.711
0.759
N
10,450
2,290
2,444
2,524
3,192
z-score for each coefficient listed in parenthesis
spatially concentrated. Although lesbians exhibit significant levels of spatial clus-
tering in many cities, gay men are spatially clustered in all cities (except for Detroit
in 2010).
We find little empirical support for some of the hypotheses about the
characteristics of the neighborhoods that attract more gay couples advanced in
case studies and more qualitatively oriented research. Relative to other city
residents, gay men and lesbians do not shift
toward more racially diverse
