DDN | Black Ohioans closing income gap SUBSCRIBE Start delivery Customer service New Lebanon teen CLASSIFIED ADS Black Ohioans closing killed in crash Classifieds index income gap Montgomery County Find a home inmate dies Find a job Census data show disparities reverse in some areas Find a car By Mara Lee and Ken McCall Crime Stopper seeks e-mail address: [email protected] help for program LOCAL NEWS Dayton Daily News Local news index In the 90s, the salaries of blacks in Ohio grew 15.8 Deputies identify percent as whites grew 10.1 percent. The gap crash victim ActiveDayton.com WHIO Weather between the median, or midpoint, income of white and black households shrank 8.4 percent during the " Fall Festival Guide Lottery numbers Sept. 11 hard for UD decade. " Game of the Week LOCAL SPORTS grad who survived That's a good sign, said John Logan, director of Poll Local sports index State University of New York-Albany's Lewis Mumford More local stories " Find Movie Center, which studies demographic trends. High schools Showtimes Reds But by the end of the decade, the median household income for Ohios white households was still NASCAR Classified ads... $16,000 more: $42,899 vs. blacks $26,619. Friday high school UD Flyers Asian-American households have higher salaries than " DaytonClassifieds Ohio State any other group the Ohio median income figure football action was $49,266 in 1999. home page BUSINESS OSU defense still " Recent home sale Ohios Census data was taken from the long form, must improve prices Business index which went to one in every six households. 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In Warren County, which has a tiny black Man admits to population of 683 households, the median black accidental shooting LOCAL GUIDES household income at $59,125 was 2.4 percent higher than the white household income. Restaurants Kids in failing See all coupons | all Movies At the local level, there are some townships and schools have ads cities where black households were more well-off nowhere to go Music than whites. Clayton, which was 9.9 percent black in Live events the 2000 Census, has a median black household Dayton family wins income of $61,838, and a median white household LOCAL LIFE income of $60,684. $2 million Today's Life "Communities that are able to attract a racially and Restaurants part of Life/Food ethnically diverse population in the same range of Super Wal-Mart site social classes are very fortunate, because these are Life/Home the best conditions to build relationships across the Life/Screens races," Logan said. Area's most-wanted Life/Events criminals James Wilson Jr., and his wife Erica, both 31, agree Life/Families that integration is comfortable in Clayton. They file:///O|/Common/john's request for saving news s...ailynews/DDN Black Ohioans closing income gap.htm (1 of 3) [10/28/2002 12:08:13 PM] DDN | Black Ohioans closing income gap Life/Money moved to an apartment complex there in 1998 when Shopping center Life/Health they first married, choosing the townhouse over places in Harrison Twp., Trotwood and Kettering. " Today's featured ads COMMUNITY Ohio's broken mental They bought their 1984 three-bedroom bi-level with a " Plan a vacation NEWS two-car garage in 1999. Their son, James Wilson III, retardation system was born 11 months ago. 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Both Dayton public school graduates Erica teaches Speak Up! kindergarten at Loos Elementary said the " Volunteer. And feel Mike Peters Northmont school district didn't play a role in the good. AARP National decision. cartoons Day Of Service, Sept. They think they will stay in Northmont, trading up to 26 RECENT NEWS Clayton or Englewood, however. James said, "They Sunday believe in levies out here." " Bon Voyage Travel Saturday Since they moved to their street, two of James' Agent Directory Friday co-workers at Reynolds and Reynolds' Germantown Street site have bought houses on the street. One " Gaming Guide, How Thursday had visited him before buying there. to Play and Where to Wednesday In 10 years, James thinks there will be twice as many Stay Tuesday blacks in Clayton. "I think they're doing better on Last Monday their jobs, and want newer homes. I don't think we'll " Get Free Travel Earlier see people doing like they did in other areas white Information flight." OUR SERVICES Trotwood has been a destination for upwardly mobile " Summer Festival Buy advertising black families for decades. That trend continued in Guide sponsored by the '90s. Get your news Ohio Renaissance published In Trotwood, the 1999 median income for black Festival households was $36,798, and for whites it was Contact editors $32,720. Jefferson Twp., another traditional black " See what's Contact reporters suburban destination in the region, was $32,416 for happening downtown Contact customer blacks, $30,338 for whites. service Age differences explain quite a bit of Trotwood's " Forecast: Valley Printing plant tours income gap. Logan said in communities where the features sponsored by racial balance shifts Trotwood went from minority Newspapers in black to 60 percent black in 2000 middle-aged and Dayton Metro Library Education elderly whites are the least likely to move. " Continuing Archive Trotwood Mayor Donald McLaurin said the white Education population in Trotwood has gotten older. But young OUR COMPANY middle-class black families continue to move in. Opportunities Our history "When you look at migration from the city of Dayton, " Our take on health Parent company few suburbs attract blacks, and Trotwood happens to care be one of them," he said. "You don't have to travel PARTNERS far from immediate families (still in Dayton)." " Area's most wanted Springfield He said earlier migrants influence friends and criminals News-Sun relatives who see how happy they are in Trotwood. Middletown "People have a sense of belonging, a sense of friendships," he said. Journal Hamilton Why doesn't the white middle class continue to move in? "They don't know what they're missing," McLaurin file:///O|/Common/john's request for saving news s...ailynews/DDN Black Ohioans closing income gap.htm (2 of 3) [10/28/2002 12:08:13 PM] DDN | Black Ohioans closing income gap Journal-News said. He said many young whites rent near the WHIO-TV region's entertainment and retail hubs east and south of town. "Once you get caught up into a community WHIO-AM you like, you tend to stay there," he said. ActiveDayton.com Logan said segregation, like that seen in Dayton SEARCH THE suburbs, should be viewed through a wider lens than DDN choices based on comfort and familiarity. Even college-educated affluent suburban blacks tend to live in areas where there's more poverty, more vacant housing, fewer college graduates than whites of the same income level, he said. (Search limited to He said their neighborhoods may have stagnant recent news housing values, because studies have shown that stories) whites are less likely to buy from blacks, so there's a smaller pool of buyers. Trotwood, however, does not follow that trend. Census estimates of housing appreciation in the '90s put the suburb at about 12 percent higher than Centerville, Englewood and Huber Heights, and not far behind Kettering. Logan said higher concentrations in poverty often translate into lower quality schools, and that disparity is a problem for everyone, not just those who live there. McLaurin said Trotwood-Madison's school district has had troubles, but the city knows schools are one of a community's most important features, and he said he has faith in the system's upward path. The new superintendent two years ago changed the culture, and the residents passed a bond issue for new schools, he said. "You're going to see great things out of the Trotwood-Madison schools and in Trotwood.