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Originally Posted by eschaton
I don't think it's really true that wealth never "left the city" in terms of Buffalo. There are a few middle-income census tracts in/around Elmwood Village and North Park, but these are still only areas with average household income in the $70k-$90k zone. That's better than what you see in Detroit or Cleveland, but that's not saying much.
The only rust-belt cities that kept substantive in-town wealth were Milwaukee (along the north lakeshore), Cincinnati (around Hyde Park), and Pittsburgh (large sections of the East End).
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The Census Tracts in Buffalo don't align well with income distribution, as they typically span across both low and high income areas.
However, by looking at the Census Block level, it shows that 18 out of the 259 income-measured Census Blocks, or 7%, had household income over $100k in Buffalo, though spread across 11 different Census Tracts. Another 5 Census Blocks exceeded $90k, so close to 9% of all city Census Blocks with measured incomes given are over $90k.
The highest income area is Tract 169 Block 1, population 1,497 and median income $149.9k, which spans from Elmwood Village to the Delaware District. Most of the high income Census Blocks follow the same alignment as high cost homes from downtown north to areas surrounding Delaware Park, but there are also a couple of Census Blocks in South Buffalo greater than $100k.