Post 7: Milwaukee Segregation

 Looking at the map with the homes of only white workers selected, we see a large number of people spread out throughout the Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis area (602,694 people or 83.8 percent). Most of these people are concentrated in Shorewood, the Upper East Side, West Milwaukee, West Allis and part of Wauwatosa. Switch the map to show only Milwaukee’s African American workers (87,181 people or 12.1 percent) and the segregated areas can’t get much more defined. We find most of the African-American community From Brown Deer down to Midtown and just east of Butler over to Lincoln Park, with very few people anywhere else.

Most studies have only examined black-white segregation, yet Milwaukee is easily just as segregated toward Hispanic people also. The Hispanic (Latino) population averages at about 43,374 or 6 percent  of the population. This text held maps also to illustrate the great mass of white on the milwaukee map, as opposed the lesser number of hispanic/african american areas. When you turn on the filter to show only the places where Hispanic workers live, it shows a very small, yet heavily populated area around Walker’s Point and Historic Mitchell Street. 

source link: http://www.milwaukeemag.com/article/11282012-TheMostSegregatedCityinAmerica

Home of White workers

Homes of Black workers 

Homes of Hispanic workers