You may have lived in the neighborhood where your parents have established a household, but you probably do not know the social characteristics of that neighborhood. These characteristics are important for understanding the inhabitants of the neighborhood, what happens in the neighborhood, and what opportunities are available.
The characteristics you are being asked to discover are basic social characteristics such as the race, ethnicity, gender, age distribution, life expectancy at birth, educational attainment, household incomes, distribution of occupations, as well as what is spent on local schools, expenditure on public libraries, and housing affordability.
Here is what you want to find out:
1. Consumer price index
2. Median Earnings
3. Poverty figure
4. What is the per pupil spending for the high school you attended, and how does that compare to the state average to the average for the county?
5. Housing affordability
6. Occupational characteristics of the area
7. Life expectancy at birth
8. Racial and ethnic make-up of the area
9. Educational attainment of residents
