The Wealthiest Asian American Neighborhoods

By Jeff | Monday, January 12, 2009 | 1 Comment

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“When you get past the first gate, you drive in for a while and then you have to get through another gate in order to get to her house.”

“You mean she lives in a gated community within a gated community?”

The Higley 1000 web site, a web site that investigates racial segregation in wealthy American neighborhoods, states that Asian-Americans are over represented in the wealthiest 1000 neighborhoods in the United States, with Asian-Americans being 4.4% of the population in these areas compared to being 2.9% of the general population. Of the top 25 most heavily Asian-American wealthy neighborhoods, the most concentrated neighborhood, the Mission Peak foothills, is 74.6% Asian with a median income of $211,773. This area was #633 on the list. The Fremont Place neighborhood in the Los Angeles area is #29 out of the 1000, 54.2% Asian with a median income of $381,500. 3 out of the top 4 neighborhoods are near Mission San Jose area near Mission San Jose High School, which was discussed here on 8asians.

The above conversation with my Daughter happened when I was getting directions to the house of one of her Asian-American classmates in the fourth wealthiest Asian-American neighborhood of Avalon Heights in Fremont. And yes, her friend really lives in a gated community within a gated community.

While the Higley 1000 concentrates on the wealthiest neighbors, I think it would be interesting look at segregation in the poorest neighborhoods. I would suspect that the income distribution of Asian American neighborhoods would be bi-modal, with large numbers of both wealthy and poor Asian-American neighborhoods.

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blueronin44 10 pts

Yes, regarding your bimodal observation. We tend to be concentrated in either blue collar or white collar jobs and not so much the jobs in the middle. We though are very underrepresented in Leadership positions from what I've notice.

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