Stratification & Prejudice
Baltimore, Maryland by Madison Price
What You Need to Know About Baltimore
Population: 622,104
Veteran Status: 37,185
Poverty Rate: 23.4%
Racial Composition
- White: 31.6%
- African American: 63.3%
- American Indian: 0.4%
- Asian: 2.6%
- Hispanic/Latino: 4.6%
- Apartheid schools: 15% African American, 14% Latino, 19.1% White
- In schools whites attended with 27.2%, African Americans were more than half, and Hispanics made up half of the student population
- $40,803
- House units: 295,737
- House ownership rate: 48.8%
- Housing units in multi-unit structure: 32.5%
- Median value of owner-occupied housing units: $161,300
- Households: 240,630
- 200 different ones
- Best 5: Inner Harbor, Mount Vernan, Federal Hill, Hampden, and Cockeysville
- less than high school degree: 19.7%
- high school degree or higher: 79.6%
- Bachelors degree or higher: 26.1%
- Violent crime rate: 1,417 per 100,000 residents
- crime rate fell about 5% last year
- Plaques with drugs and poverty
- ranked top 15 in the U.S. cities for all violent crimes
- one way bus: $1.60
- subway: $3.50
- weekly pass: $16.50
- monthly: $64.00
- MARC
- Charm City Circulation: Free
- ranked second for HIV/AIDS rates
- 16,000 known cases
- 6,000 residents are currently infected but not yet tested.
- 57% are covered with health insurance through employment
- 13% are not insured.