In a message dated 2/18/02 2:44:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
C) Spruce Hill population numbers should be (for tracts 87,77 combined)
1990: 9587
2000: 8583
Hmmm.
And, I hope that nobody storms out of the listserv because I'm following up with more of what I thought would be clarification but just gets worse and worse.
I went back and found that in the "1990 Census of Population & Housing (SFT 1A) Neighborhood Profile," what the folks somewhere in the bowels of officialdom called "Spruce Hill," included census tracts 77, 86, and 87. The 1990 figures for this area included a total population of 11,776 and all kinds of interesting breakdowns. It's still online at:
www.library.upenn.edu/census/philnbrhds/nbr1a159.html
Going after these three tracts together through the "portal" at:
http://westphillydata.library.upenn.edu
you get populations of either 14,807 initially (without bar graphs) or 16,272 (with bar graphs), but the latter has mysteriously switched you from the 2000 census back to the 1990 census for the same three tracts that yielded 11,776 at the other URL.
The conclusion is that drawing any conclusions from the census data as now published is an exercise done at your own peril.
(Better luck with the restaurant than with the data, Roger!)
Al Krigman
PS: Tract 86 seems to be what we'd consider Walnut Hill.
