Marin County Has 5.8 Percent Unemployment - Larkspur-Corte Madera, CA Patch
The unemployment rate in California dropped below 10 percent in November, while most Bay Area counties saw similar or slightly lowered unemployment figures from October, according to a state employment report released Friday.
The state unemployment rate dropped to 9.8 percent in November from 10.1 percent last month.
In the Bay Area, the highest unemployment numbers came from Solano County at 9.3 percent, the same as the previous month.
The lowest unemployment is in Marin County, which maintained a 5.8 percent rate.
In San Francisco, unemployment dropped slightly to 6.7 percent from 6.8 percent in October, according to the report.
November's jobless numbers were down sharply from a year ago when the state's rate was 11.3 percent.
The national unemployment rate dropped to 7.7 percent in November
compared to 7.9 percent the previous month, according to the report.The state's unemployment rate is derived from a federal survey of 5,500 households throughout California.
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Way to go Marin County. Frankly it's the people that live here. We are all very very lucky to live in such a beautiful place and be able to afford it! We all work very hard to live here...........
Marin Home Sales Jump, Median Price Continues to Rise - Mill Valley, CA Patch
To get a better picture of the housing market in Mill Valley, this article should have also posted how many years on the market and what percentage of the asking price that the houses sold for. Without those 2 important statistics, the article does have not provide much useful information.
Right now, many people would be surprised at how many years these houses have been on the market, and the few that have been sold, the sellers have had to reduce their final sale price by 50%, and that is in Mill Valley.
So, the proximity to S.F. is not so much a factor now like it used to be.
And about the 101 commute, I was working down at gate six in Sausalito today until 5:00 pm. I saw the traffic backed up the Waldo Grade going down as far as I could see, and it was thick all the way as far as I could see going north too.
That is an indicator that many people are working now, and many more are traveling north because they thought that they can't buy a house in southern Marin.
So, that may have been true 10 years ago, but the way the market in Mill Valley is now, it looks like things might be changing a bit.
Now is a very good time to buy in Mill Valley, many houses have recently sold for 50% off the original asking price, making houses more affordable, that is a very good thing. Also, If developers pay attention to demographic trends, they will be less likely to invest in building more housing, especially high density housing like Blithedale Terrace.
Mill Valley is not the only community where sales have jumped! Thinking about listing your home? I would do it ASAP to get a jump on the market in the new year.
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OK so I guess I need to check out this place!
Finding Diversity in America | Trulia Trends
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday during the Civil War, in an attempt to restore peace and unity to the United States. In today’s diverse America, Thanksgiving remains widely celebrated and crosses religious, racial, and ethnic lines (though some Native Americans consider Thanksgiving a Day of Mourning), with Americans from different regions of the US and different countries around the globe bringing their own traditions to the Thanksgiving table.
This Thanksgiving, we wanted to see which neighborhoods best reflect American diversity. To do so, we identified the country’s most diverse neighborhoods and metros using Census data on race and ethnicity. We measured diversity as the share of a metro area’s or ZIP code’s population in its largest racial or ethnic group: the smaller the share of the largest group, the more diverse the neighborhood is. For instance, an area that is 70% White (the largest group), 20% Black, and 10% Asian is less diverse than one that is 60% Hispanic (the largest group), 30% White, and 10% Black. In this example, the second neighborhood is more diverse because the largest group accounts for 60% of the population versus 70% in the first neighborhood (see note about Census racial and ethnic definitions at end of post).
America’s Most Diverse Metros
Among the 100 largest metros, San Jose is the most diverse. San Jose is 35% White (the largest group), 31% Asian, 28% Hispanic, 3% two-or-more races, and 2% Black. In no other metro does the largest group have a share smaller than 35%. New York ranks second, with a population that is 39% White, 28% Hispanic, 19% Black, and 12% Asian. Four of the ten most diverse large metros in the U.S. are in California: San Jose, Oakland, Orange County, and San Francisco. Only one – New York – is in the Northeast, and not one is in the Midwest.
America’s Most Diverse Metros
#
U.S. Metro % population in largest group 1
San Jose, CA 35%
2
New York, NY-NJ 39%
3
Oakland, CA 40%
4
Houston, TX 40%
5
Honolulu, HI 43%
6
Fort Lauderdale, FL 44%
7
Orange County, CA 44%
8
Memphis, TN-MS-AR 46%
9
San Francisco, CA 46%
10
Albuquerque, NM 47%
A lower percentage of population in the largest group means greater diversity. Among 100 largest metros. The map below shows the diversity index for counties across America. Diversity is highest in California and Hawaii, as well as much of the South. The least-diverse parts of the country (i.e. those with the highest share in the largest group), in contrast, are in New England and parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. Among the 100 largest metros, Pittsburgh is the least diverse: it is 87% White, 8% Black, 2% Asian, and 1% Hispanic. El Paso also stands out as America’s least-diverse large metro that is not majority-White: El Paso is 82% Hispanic, 13% White, and 3% Black. Hispanics are the majority in Fresno, San Antonio, and Miami as well. In none of the 100 largest metros are Blacks or Asians a majority. The metro with the highest percentage of Blacks is Memphis, at 45%, and the metro with the highest percentage of Asians is Honolulu, at 43%.
America’s Most Diverse Neighborhoods
The diversity people experience day-to-day, though, depends on how diverse their neighborhood is. If members of a racial or ethnic group tend to live near each other in specific neighborhoods, even diverse metros could have mostly segregated neighborhoods. So let’s turn to diversity within neighborhoods, which we define as ZIP codes.The most diverse neighborhood in America is the ZIP code 75038. Located just east of the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, this ZIP code includes the neighborhoods of Broadmoor Hills and Song in Irving, TX. That ZIP code is 26% Asian, 25% Black, 23% Hispanic, and 23% White. The next-most diverse neighborhoods are Queens Village (11428) in the borough of Queens, New York, and San Francisco’s Treasure Island (94130).
America’s Most Diverse Neighborhoods
# ZIP code Neighborhood U.S. Metro % population in largest group 1
75038 Irving
(Broadmoor Hills / Song)Dallas, TX 25.7%
2
11428 Queens Village New York, NY-NJ 26.4%
3
94130 Treasure Island San Francisco, CA 27.2%
4
77407 Lakemont Houston, TX 27.9%
5
96786 Wahiawa Honolulu, HI 28.5%
6
96731 Kahuku Honolulu, HI 28.7%
7
98178 Rainier View Seattle, WA 28.8%
8
02125 Dorchester Boston, MA 29.1%
9
96707 Kapolei Honolulu, HI 29.2%
10
95834 South Natomas Sacramento, CA 29.2%
A lower percentage of population in the largest group means greater diversity. Among 100 largest metros. What do these neighborhoods have in common? Although many, like Queens Village and Dorchester, are within the city limits, they are not the densest, most central, or best-known neighborhoods. None of the top-10 most diverse neighborhoods in the country is a familiar name to out-of-towners. Also, some of the most diverse neighborhoods in America are located in metro areas that aren’t especially diverse overall, like Seattle (67% White) and Boston (69% White).
Expensive neighborhoods aren’t very diverse. As Blacks and Hispanics have lower incomes, on average, than Whites, the neighborhoods with the most expensive housing tend to be largely White: New York’s West Village (10014) is 83% White, as is Beverly Hills (90210). But so-called “hipster” neighborhoods are somewhat more mixed: Brooklyn’s Williamsburg (11211) is 65% White and 26% Hispanic; Chicago’s Wicker Park (60622) is 58% White, 29% Hispanic, and 7% Black; San Francisco’s Mission District (94110) is 42% White, 38% Hispanic, and 12% Asian; and Los Angeles’s Silver Lake (90026) is 57% Hispanic, 21% White, and 17% Asian.
Finally, while many non-diverse neighborhoods are almost exclusively White, non-White doesn’t necessary mean diverse. Chicago’s Englewood (60621) and two of Washington DC’s Anacostia neighborhoods (20019 and 20020) are at least 95% Black; Boyle Heights (90023) in Los Angeles and Miami’s Hialeah (33012) are at least 95% Hispanic; and Monterey Park (91755) in Los Angeles and Flushing (11355) in Queens are both at least 70% Asian.
Here are the most diverse neighborhoods in the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington metro areas. [See Appendix Below]
Housing Markets in Diverse Neighborhoods
Do Americans want to live in diverse neighborhoods – or are they avoiding them?We looked at changes in both occupied households (based on U.S. Postal Service data, just as in our recent post showing suburbs growing faster than urban areas) and home prices (based on homes for sale on Trulia) in the past year, comparing diverse neighborhoods, defined as those where no racial or ethnic group accounts for more than 50% of the population, and other neighborhoods. The more diverse neighborhoods have both higher population growth and stronger price growth in the past year – and they’re a bit more expensive to begin with:
% change in households,
Oct 2011 –
Oct 2012% change in median price per sqft,
Oct 2011 –
Oct 2012Median price per sqft
Diverse neighborhoods 0.61%
1.9%
$157
Other neighborhoods 0.49%
1.2%
$142
Among 100 largest metros. Within these metros, 17% of the population lives in diverse neighborhoods, and the rest in other neighborhoods. Americans, therefore, are moving toward diverse neighborhoods. However, growth in those neighborhoods could affect their diversity: if prices in diverse neighborhoods rise, lower-income residents may get priced out over time. Because the two largest minority racial/ethnic groups – Blacks and Hispanics – have lower incomes, on average, than Whites, rising prices could reduce diversity in those markets. When the next Census rolls around in 2020, the list of most-diverse neighborhoods in the US could look very different.
Technical note: the 2010 Census asked two questions about race and ethnicity: one about Hispanic or Latino origin, and one about race. The official Census race categories are White; Black or African American; American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; and Some Other Race. People can select more than one race. People of Hispanic or Latino origin can identify as any race.
We follow the convention of many demographic researchers and create racial/ethnic categories that do not overlap. “Hispanic and Latino” and “two or more races” are both considered separate categories. Using this approach, the U.S. population is 63.7% White, 16.3% Hispanic or Latino, 12.2% Black or African American, 4.7% Asian, 0.7% American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, 0.2% some other race, and 1.9% two or more races, for a total of 100%.
In this post, for simplicity, we refer to each racial or ethnic category by the first name or phrase used by the Census: White, Hispanic, Black, Asian, and so on.
See this report for more on how the Census asks about and reports on race and ethnicity.
Appendix: the most diverse neighborhoods in five major metros
New York metro area # ZIP code Neighborhood % of population in largest group 1 Queens Village (Queens) 26.4%
2 South Ozone Park (Queens) 30.7%
3 Englewood (New Jersey) 31.2%
4 Elmsford (Westchester) 31.2%
5 Bridgeport’s North End (Connecticut) 31.7%
A lower percentage of population in the largest group means greater diversity.
Los Angeles metro area # ZIP code Neighborhood % of population in largest group 1 Downtown LA, near 7th & Main 30.8%
2 Signal Hill, Long Beach 31.3%
3 Downtown LA, along 4th & 5th 31.7%
4 Fullerton, Orange County 34.2%
5 Buena Park, Orange County 35.2%
A lower percentage of population in the largest group means greater diversity.
Chicago metro area # ZIP code Neighborhood % of population in largest group 1 Berkeley (west suburbs) 32.3%
2 Joliet (southwest suburbs) 34.6%
3 Hanover Park (west suburbs) 38.2%
4 West Rogers Park 38.4%
5 Burnham / Hegewisch 38.9%
A lower percentage of population in the largest group means greater diversity.
San Francisco Bay Area # ZIP code Neighborhood % of population in largest group 1 Treasure Island (San Francisco) 27.2%
2 Antioch (East Bay) 29.3%
3 San Leandro (East Bay) 29.3%
4 Redwood Heights (Oakland) 29.9%
5 Lakeside (Oakland) 29.9%
A lower percentage of population in the largest group means greater diversity.
Washington DC metro area # ZIP code Neighborhood % of population in largest group 1 Woodbridge (Virginia) 31.2%
2 Aspen Hill (Maryland) 32.0%
3 Alexandria (Virginia) 32.6%
4 Columbia Heights (DC) 32.6%
5 Alexandria (Virginia) 33.2%
A lower percentage of population in the largest group means greater diversity.
This article was written a few weeks ago but I just discovered it and wanted to share it. The top ten most diverse neighborhoods in America. Some might surprise you.








