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Originally Posted by ChrisBBradford
The report did not find that the City was highly segregated by income. On the contrary, it found the city had relatively low segregation of the wealthy. It didn't list the ranking for segregation of the poor. But there are many other cities much more segregated by income.
Austin ranked high because of a high ranking for "segregation" of the service class, working class & creative class. I put that in quotes because in no American metros are these classes highly segregated. The service class, in particular, is almost evenly dispersed in every large American metro. But Austin had high rankings on these three. Combined, its ranking on these three had a larger effect on the composite ranking than the wealth rankings.
TL;DR: Austin isn't the most economically segregated city in any meaningful sense.
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No. The only time the word creative appears:
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suggest that a large creative class also tends to exacerbate those divides.
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I.E. just a causal claim, not because the data is limited in this regard.
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Residents in knowledge-based jobs, service-oriented jobs and working-class jobs -- such as manufacturing -- tend to live separately, the study found. Austin ranked among the 10 most-segregated metro areas by each of those three measures. Meanwhile, workers without a high school degree were more separated in Austin than in any other large metro area, according to the report.
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In other words, every job ever created. That's economic segregation writ whole.