The setting of our group project takes place in Greenwich Village, New York City. “According to the latest census, the population of Greenwich Village in 2010 was 72,025 – about 0.9 percent of the total population of New York City . . . [and] there has been virtually no change in the total population of the area since 1990” (Appleseed).
With respect to age, there has not been a concrete 2010 census in the Greenwich Village. However, there are age demographics between 2005 and 2009: “According to ACS, children under age 18 represented only 9.2 percent of the Village’s resident population between 2005 and 2009, as compared with 22.8 percent of all residents of New York City” (Appleseed). According to Appleseed, there is a “relatively small number of children living in the Village” because of the “household size and composition” data on Greenwich village. This evidenced by “ the average size of Greenwich Village households in 2005-2009 [being] 1.7 persons, and only 10.4 percent of all households [including] one or more children under 18 years old” (Appleseed). Additionally, “the Village has a relatively large working-age population, with 25-to-64-year-olds accounting for nearly 69 percent of the community’s residents” (Appleseed).
There is also a relatively diverse range in the race/ethnicity demographics of Greenwich Village. With respect to race and ethnicity, “in 2010 the community was 79.3 percent non-Hispanic white, 2.2 percent non-Hispanic black, 6.2 percent Latino, 9.3 percent Asian and 3 percent mixed race or other” (Appleseed). Furthermore, “in 2005-2009, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 17.1 percent of all Village residents were born outside the U.S” (Appleseed). The residents of Greenwich Village are mostly affluent. “The median household income in Greenwich Village for 2005-2009 was $101,568 – more than 50 percent higher than the median for Manhattan, more than double the median for New York City as a whole, and more than double the median for the U.S” illustrating how wealthy residents of Greenwich Village are, as compared to New York City as a whole (Appleseed). However, residents of Greenwich Village have not always been this wealthy: “The median income of Greenwich Village households rose in real terms (that is, after adjusting for inflation) by 36.4 percent between 1990 and 2005-2009” (Appleseed). The high income of residents in this area may be a result of the high levels of education attained here: “ In 2005-2009, 82.4 percent of all Greenwich Village residents age 25 or older had at least a bachelor’s degree – including 39.3 percent who had graduate or professional degrees” (Appleseed). With respect to other communities in the United States, Greenwich Village is “ among the best-educated communities” (Appleseed).
