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So many Park Slope statistics, so little time!

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  • dailyheights
    dailyheights

    So many megabytes!

    What is the take home message?

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    Threee Take Home Messages:

    1. Get FIOS, so downloads of huge reports are fast.

    2. As per page 7, the most popular profession in Park Slope in 2007/2009 was Attorney. 6.6% of people employed in PS are attorney's and they earn an average of $126k.

    Meanwhile, the most popular profession in Brooklyn as a whole was Home Health Aid. 5.3% of people employed in Brooklyn are in this profession, and they earn an average of $23k

    3. Move to PS and be a Lawyer, instead of living elsewhere and trying to make ends meet as a Home Health Aid.

  • ringrunner
    ringrunner

    crime went down

    stop and frisk went up.

  • danielj
    danielj

    When was this released?

  • ringrunner
    ringrunner

    17.5% are obese, compared to 25% in the entire borough.

    14% smoke, down 6% from 2010.

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    (copied from http://www.heresparkslope.com/home/2012/2/2/community-district-6-annual-report-out-not-very-surprising.html)

  • danielj
    danielj

    Here's Park Slope has done some distillation:

    http://www.heresparkslope.com/home/2012/2/2/community-district-6-annual-report-out-not-very-surprising.html

  • dailyheights
    dailyheights

    Nice summary DanielJ!!

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    What's fun is the correlation between the ratio of women to men in a given neighborhood, and the rate of crime in a given neighborhood.

    For example, Park Slope's ratio of women to men is about 50/50, and it has a low crime rate. However, in neighborhoods with high crime rates, women usually outnumber men.

    Favorite bad conclusion: Based on only this information, one could hypothesize that women are the reason for the crimes, and that in areas where women outnumber men, crime soars.

  • homeowner
    homeowner

    Well, based upon what I've seen in the street, a great deal of crime is either

    1)Women fighting over men

    2)Men fighting over women

    3)Men doing dumb stuff to impress women

    4)Women doing dumb stuff to impress men

    It seems to me that 1 & 4 happen when there are significantly more women than men and 2 & 3 when there are significantly more men than women.

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    Spending a lot on arts programming also seems to be inversely related to crime.

    Perhaps we should have gender exclusive neighborhoods that spend lots on art?

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