Demographics Scavenger Hunt

Try to answer these questions on your own. Then use the Provplan neighborhood profiles to check and see if you’re right!

1. If you broke the fox point neighborhood into age groups, would you have more people age 30-34 or 20-24?

2. Which neighborhood has more children under the age of 5? Olneyville or Manton?

3. Which neighborhood’s population increased the most between 1990 and 2000?

4. Which neighborhoods lost population between 1990 and 2000?

5. Which neighborhood experienced the highest increase in its Hispanic population between 1990 and 2000? What was the percentage increase?

6. What neighborhoods experience a decrease in its Hispanic population between 1990 and 2000?

7. Which neighborhoods experienced an increase in Black/African American population between 1990 and 2000?

8. Which neighborhoods experienced a decrease?

9. Which neighborhoods experienced an increase in median family income? Which neighborhoods experienced a decrease?

10. Look up your neighborhood and learn something new!