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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 5.
Published in final edited form as: Am Econ J Econ Policy. 2015 Feb;7(1):63–94. doi: 10.1257/pol.20120325

Appendix Table 1.

Correlations between 2000 and 2010 Zip Code Demographics

Income %White %Black %Hispanic %Dropout %College
Less than 20th Percentile 2009 Foreclosures 0.9049 0.9589 0.9337 0.9601 0.805 0.7489
Greater than 80th Percentile 2009 Foreclosure 0.8618 0.9509 0.9529 0.958 0.899 0.8734
Less than 20th Percentile Foreclosure Change 0.9479 0.9631 0.9802 0.9779 0.8769 0.8621
Greater than 80th Percentile Foreclosure Chan 0.8544 0.9513 0.9213 0.9696 0.8509 0.7558

Notes: The table shows simple correlations between zip code level census characteristics in 2000 and 2010 for zip in the lowest quintile for foreclosures in 2009, and for zip codes in the highest quintile of foreclosure rates in 2009