Newly released 2010 Census data shows that the Central District has a white majority for the first time in 60 years, reports Central District News and the Seattle Times.
58% of the neighborhood is now white. This is in contrast to 2000, when Census data showed that the neighborhood was 45% white, 36% black, 8% Hispanic, 5% Asian, and 5% mixed race.
The Seattle Times article narrates the history of the neighborhood's Immaculate Conception Church to explore the changing racial makeup of the neighborhood.
According to the Times, the CD has been a largely African American neighborhood since after World War II when many African Americans moved to Seattle and "found jobs at Boeing or at shipyards lived in the Central Area, in large part because of housing discrimination and restrictive covenants in the city."
2010 Census data for Washington is still being released. What has been already published can be accessed here.
Gentrification, what's good with that? ;)
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