OH redlining

Author

Fatima

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##This is the original redlining data (not census tract)

[1] 10154    12

Total of 10,154 redlined areas around the US.

Every row represents area id instead of modern CENSUS geography

Checking how many states have redlining areas, and the numbers below represents the number of area id per state. OH has 714 redlined areas:


 AL  AR  AZ  CA  CO  CT  FL  GA  IA  IL  IN  KS  KY  LA  MA  MD  ME  MI  MN  MO 
118  72  26 879 119 185 203 238 150 925 305  91 136 163 490  60  28 572 168 320 
 MS  NC  ND  NE  NH  NJ  NY  OH  OK  OR  PA  RI  SC  SD  TN  TX  UT  VA  VT  WA 
 26 166  27  33  27 684 891 714 145  94 552  55  87  39 138 279  55 320  56 166 
 WI  WV 
243 109

The below table shows which cities in OH are redlined. Cleveland has the most redlined areas


  Cleveland    Columbus      Toledo       Akron      Dayton  Youngstown 
        192          93          80          69          49          44 
Springfield      Canton        Lima    Hamilton  Portsmouth      Warren 
         39          30          28          25          23          22 
     Lorain 
         20

However, we have

[1] 3168

[1] 3168    4