While working on a piece for Newgeography , I generated a couple of Census maps depicting the percentage of various central Austin block groups populated by households with children.
I was particularly curious about the change in the composition of central Austin households between 1990 and 2000.
I've put the maps below the jump.
As expected, the maps show that the percentage of households with children generally declined between 1990 and 2000.
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