Social Science Research
Volume 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 950-964

Metropolitan influences on migration into poor and nonpoor neighborhoods (Article)

South S.J.* , Pais J. , Crowder K.
  • a Department of Sociology and Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222, United States
  • b Department of Sociology and Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222, United States
  • c Department of Sociology and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States

Abstract

Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and three decennial US censuses are used to examine the influence of metropolitan-area characteristics on black and white households' propensity to move into poor versus nonpoor neighborhoods. We find that a nontrivial portion of the variance in the odds of moving to a poor rather to a nonpoor neighborhood exists between metropolitan areas. Net of established individual-level predictors of inter-neighborhood migration, black and white households are more likely to move to a poor or extremely poor tract rather than to a nonpoor tract in metropolitan areas containing many poor neighborhoods and a paucity of recently-built housing in nonpoor areas. Blacks are especially likely to move to a poor tract in metropolitan areas characterized by high levels of racial residential segregation and in which poor tracts have a sizeable concentration of blacks. White households are more likely to move to a poor than to a nonpoor tract in metropolitan areas that have comparatively few African Americans. © 2011 Elsevier Inc.

Author Keywords

Migration Neighborhood Metropolitan area race Geographic mobility poverty

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79953198193&doi=10.1016%2fj.ssresearch.2011.01.003&partnerID=40&md5=0507a010124fc3ecab2ec2fc3daa857d
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.01.003
ISSN: 0049089X
Cited by: 20
Original Language: English