URBAN INDICATORS

[Noteworthy Trends of 2006 from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy
Program]


- For the first time in 2005 there are more poor residents of suburbs
than central cities.

- More than one-third of the nation's loss of manufacturing jobs between
2000 and 2005 occurred in seven Great Lakes states: Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

- America's older, inner-ring first suburbs make up 20 percent of the
nation's population and are more diverse and older than the nation as a
whole.

- The average U.S. household spends 19 percent of its budget on
transportation, rendering household location a key component of housing
affordability. Nationwide, more than 4.2 million lower income homeowners
pay a higher than average APR for their mortgage.

- The leading refugee destination metro areas have shifted away from
traditional immigrant gateways, like New York and Los Angeles, over the
past two decades to newer gateways - such as Atlanta, Seattle, and
Portland.

- The fastest growing metropolitan areas for minority populations from
2000 to 2004 now closely parallel the fastest growing areas in the
nation.

- Middle-income neighborhoods as a proportion of all metropolitan
neighborhoods declined from 58 percent in 1970 to 41 percent in 2000,
disappearing faster than the share of middle class households in these
metro areas.

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