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Minneapolis Neighborhood Organizations Fall Short of Diversity Targets

By on March 6, 2019 in Demographics, Neighborhoods

The percentage of people of color and renters serving on the boards of Minneapolis neighborhood organizations has remained flat since 2014, far below their share of the city’s population as a whole. This is according to a demographic survey conducted by the city’s Neighborhood and Community Relations department. The results were presented to the City […]

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Counting The Homeless On The Train One July Evening

By on January 15, 2019 in Demographics, Planning, Public Realm, Stations, Trains, Transit

Dignity. Housing. Help. Five dollars. That’s what some people clamored for when they saw us on the Blue Line one July morning. With our safety vests on and our clipboards wielded, they recognized us as staff (volunteer or paid, it didn’t seem to matter to them) conducting the Point-In-Time Count. It’s a quarterly – now […]

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Map Monday: Visualizing Twin Cities Sprawl, Density, and Change

By on November 5, 2018 in Demographics, Development, Greater Minnesota, Maps, Trends

Like many of the maps I find I came across a webpage via Twitter, hat tip to @stateofthecity. The webpage takes data from the Global Human Settlement Layer and runs it onto Google Maps. This is the result, Human Terrain by Matt Daniels (@matthew_daniels). I immediately panned to tool over to Minnesota and geeked out. Something I […]

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Chart of the Day: Population Growth in Largest Midwestern Metros

By on October 16, 2018 in Chart, Demographics, Economics

Bloomberg carried a chart-laden article recently, written by Justin Fox, showing the disparate population growth rates in Northeastern and Midwestern cities. It charts the differences in growth rate distribution along the coasts, where three large metro areas are generating nearly all the population growth, and in the Midwest, where growth rates are more evenly distributed. […]

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Map Monday: Hennepin Minus Minneapolis: Age 60+ Years

By on October 1, 2018 in Bicycling, Demographics, Maps, Parks, Trails

To review: my first in the series, Hennepin Minus Minneapolis: Density of People of Color. My second in the series, Hennepin Minus Minneapolis: Income Less Than $50K. I also want to include Three Rivers Park District’s map for their 2030+ vision because it also is a map of Hennepin Minus Minneapolis, but instead of having demographic […]

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Nicollet Island: Seeing the Forest for the Trees

By on September 27, 2018 in Air Rights, Carfree, Demographics

ometimes people ask if I am bummed to not win last year’s Minneapolis Park & Rec Board race and my answer is always a resounding No. Five seats flipped and my Big Ideas won, along with a new majority ready to implement the same goals. A personal favorite, the Triangle Improvement Plan, was fully and […]

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Chart of the Day: MSP Non-Minnesotan Domestic Migration, 1991-2016

By on September 19, 2018 in Chart, Demographics, Economics

Here’s a chart from, Aaron Renn, an urban economic consultant who has been critical the Twin Cities for some time now as not being attractive enough to national movers and shakers. In his recent blogpost, he writes about how domestic in-migration to the metro area is up slightly, but why he does not think much […]

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Map Monday: Hennepin Minus Minneapolis: Density of People of Color

By on September 17, 2018 in Demographics, Maps, Race, Suburbia

Minneapolis is a dominating economic presence in Hennepin County and in the state of Minnesota. As the base of the state’s dominant newspaper even Minneapolis’ politics can dominate so many conversations all Minnesotans need to be having about the direction of our whole state. Last week I posted a series of maps produced by Three […]

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Map Monday: Twin Cities Racially Concentrated Areas of Wealth

By on September 4, 2018 in Demographics, Maps, Race

Here’s a map from a recent presentation by the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs out of the University of Minnesota. It shows a different perspective on the typical way of viewing income inequality in the Twin Cities. Instead of showing the Racially Concentrated Areas of Poverty (RCAP), this map flips the categories on their […]

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Do Cities Like Minneapolis Have High Transit Ridership? (Part 2)

By on July 13, 2018 in Demographics, Railroads, Transit

In the last post, I discussed which foreign cities are most like Minneapolis in terms of population distribution. In this post, I’m going to present some numbers about the transit systems of those cities, in order to determine how extensive Minneapolis’ transit system could be, given the distribution of its population. Transit share in New […]

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