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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2009 Sep 16;109(8):1028–1040. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2009.08.005

Table 1. Demographic profile of study site.

Main South/Piedmont census tracts included in the study area - 7313, 7314, 7315 - have much larger proportions of people of color (70, 75 and 60% respectively), and people living below the poverty line (40, 38, 34% respectively), compared to the city as a whole (30% people of color, and 18% in poverty). Main South (7313) and Main Middle/Piedmont (7314) are 44.3% and 47.7% Latino, respectively, compared to a city proportion of 15.0%. Main South has population density 12,640/sq. mile, compared with 4,600/sq. mile for the city as a whole. (Data from Census 2000)

City of
Worcester
Census Tract
7313 (Main
South)
Census Tract
7314 (Main
Middle/
Piedmont)
Census Tract
7315
(Piedmont)
Census Tract
7316
(Elm Park/
Piedmont)

Population 172,648 3679 4516 4801 6791

Race/ethnicity - % White alone 70.1 30.2 25.2 39.6 70
% Black alone 6.4 7.6 14.3 12.7 6.8
% Asian alone 4.5 11.5 7.8 5.1 5.4
% Latino 15 44.3 47.7 39.6 12.4

Place of Birth - % Native 85.4 80.8 74.4 69.8 79.1
% Puerto Rican 5.5 19.8 18.9 14.5 3.8
% Foreign born 14.5 19.1 25.5 30.1 20.8

Median household income 35,623 23,029 17,754 19,599 22,188

% below poverty level 17.9 40.4 38.1 33.6 35.0

100% count of housing units 70,723 1,380 1,831 2,078 2,782

Median year housing built 1946 Before 1940 Before 1940 1942 Before 1940

Occupancy status - % vacant 5.2 10.1 12.1 10.0 6.7

Tenure - % owner-occupied 43.3 13.6 12.9 12.1 11.0

Median Gross rent as % of
Household income
25.1 29.8 28.1 27.2 31.2

Population density (no./sq. mile) 4,600 12,640 16,129 20,517 14,480