demographics of kids in downtown Troy (2010)

[Alexander Dupuy]

Unfortunately the main census tract for downtown (407) included a big chunk of the hillside (College Ave to the south edge of Prospect Park, and upper Congress to Pawling and Brunswick Road) so I had to subtract those out manually.  The map is interesting, and confirms Nora's report of kids in the Troy Towers at the southeast corner of 6th and Federal - the largest concentrations are still in the Taylor Houses (76 under-18s between the two occupied buildings) and the area between Jacob and Hutton.

Downtown Troy

Age    People

0-17   567

0-14   480

0-4    210 

5-9    156

10-14  114

15-17   87

Bottom line is that there are about 500 kids in downtown Troy with little to no access to playgrounds.

I couldn't attach the PDF version with spreadsheet summary and map legend, too big for the google group.  No obvious way to upload a PDF to the KaBOOM! project page, although I was able to upload the map picture below as a higher resolution PNG than the JPG I had to use here to get Google Groups to allow it through.

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