Neighborhoods Are Changing

The buyers are mostly white. The change is jolting the economics of the land beneath everyone.

In cities across the United States, white homeowners are arriving in places they’ve long avoided. Since 2000, according to a Times analysis of demographic and housing data, the arrival of white residents is affecting about one in six predominantly African-American census tracts.

Predominantly minority neighborhoods near downtowns are growing whiter, while suburban neighborhoods that were once largely white are experiencing an increased share of black, Hispanic and Asian-American residents.