AGENDA - San Antonio Housing Authority

THE EASTSIDE CHOICE NEIGHBORHOOD TODAYEASTSIDE CHOICE NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION PLANPEOPLEAGE DEMOGRAPHICCENSUSTRACT#1306CHOICENBRHDBEXARCOUNTYMedian age 30.7 32.7% working-age 41.5% 48.33% 51%adultsChild-agedependency ratio71.5% 62.1% 43.6%There are 9,006 people living in the ChoiceNeighborhood. The child-age dependencyratio (the number of children in the populationfor every working-age adult) is significantlyhigher in the Choice Neighborhoodthan in Bexar County, signaling that thereare far more children relative to adultsin the area. The lack of adults puts morepressure on a few parents and grandparentsto raise the children in the neighborhood.This statistic is consistent with thefocus group findings of a preponderance ofunaccompanied youth in the neighborhoodand the need for activities for area youth.HOUSEHOLD STRUCTUREThere are 3,667 households in the ChoiceNeighborhood.There are slightly fewer nuclear familiesin the study area compared to the County.Of those families, far fewer are traditionalhusband-wife families with children thanin the county, and many more are femaleheadedhouseholds with no male adultpresence.RACE AND ETHNICITYCHOICENBRHDBEXARCOUNTY“Families” 68% 69.6%Families with both38.2% 65.5%parents presentFemale-headed families 50.1% 27.3%RACE | TRACT 13061990 2000 2010Total 4,543 5,525 4,595African-American3,330(73%)Hispanic 1,198(26%)2,490(55%)1,855(41%)1,721(37.5%)2,817(61.3%)Anglo 106 (2%) 155 (3%) 154(3.4%)Interestingly, this composition has beenchanging for several decades and only recentlybecame majority-Hispanic, with theAfrican-American population leaving andaging in place and very few new peoplemoving into the neighborhood.EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTSchool reform is a primary goal of theEastside Promise Neighborhood (EPN) grant,which is partner to SAHA, San Antonio IndependentSchool District (SAISD) and the Citythrough United Way. It is a means to implementrigorous educational goals which arefully integrated into the Transformation Plan.St. Philips College is one of several landmarkinstitutions located in the Eastside ChoiceNeighborhood.Source: Census Tract Data, American Community Survey, 5 yearestimate 2010Racially and ethnically, the Choice Neighborhoodis one of the most diverse inSan Antonio, with significant numbers ofAfrican-Americans and Hispanics present.In the study area, 42.8% of the adult populationdid not graduate from high school andin the Wheatley Courts neighborhood it was44.75% did not graduate from high school.14