COMMUNITY RESEARCH 6 COMMUNITY RESEARCH Community RESEARCH Bronx

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Introduction
Bronx is one of the community areas of New York City. This area especially the zip code
10455 comprises of 1600 yards or 0.71 square mile (Unitedstateszipcodes.org, 2020). Based on
the census data it has been seen that the population of the community increased with time and the
current approximate population of the community is 39,665 and the population density is 55,696
per square mile (Unitedstateszipcodes.org, 2020). Hence, it can be stated that the demographic
data regarding the population is highlighting that the population of the area is very much dense in
consideration of the land area of the community. Based on the community data in the following
section community will be assessed.
Discussion
It can be seen that the Bronx community of New York City is a densely populated
community and it has a very small amount of land area. Moreover, the whole community does
not have a water body. The total housing unit of the community is 13,851 and among this
occupied housing unit are 12,880 (Unitedstateszipcodes.org, 2020). On the other hand, the
average housing rent of the community is $318,600 (Unitedstateszipcodes.org, 2020). However,
the average household income of the community is $22,609 (Unitedstateszipcodes.org, 2020).
Based on this data it can be found that the economic structure and the employment in the
community are not in balance. Furthermore, the population has grown from 2000 to 2010 in a
rate of 11.5 per cent and there is a presence of the multiple religion and ethnic cultural people
(Web.archive.org, 2020). Based on these data it can be found that the White Non-Hispanic,
Black or African Non-Hispanic, Alaska origin and American Indian Non-Hispanic, Asian or
Pacific Islander Non-Hispanic, Hispanic origin and other race people are found in this
community (Web.archive.org, 2020). It has been seen that the community is a multicultural

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community. The community area is comprised of railway station and bus transport along with
the subways for walking. As the land area is small, walking in the neighbourhood is easy.
However, in order to travel to other places of New York City community people have the option
of the train and bus. As per the residents of the neighbourhood or the community it can be found
that the area has scruffy buildings, rental houses, easy parking areas and large roads. There are
areas in the neighbourhood that is under the construction of the new houses and buildings
(Hughes, 2020). According to the response of the people of the community 28 per cent of the
community population is suffering poverty (Hughes, 2020).
It has been seen that the Bronx community also comprises of different open spaces and
also the parks that is 99 per cent of the population has the open access to the parks
(Communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov, 2020). Moreover, the people from the community have
an opportunity of clean streets. 90 per cent of the streets of the community are clean
(Communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov, 2020). Educational qualification of adults of the
community showed the statistical data that is 10.3 per cent of the adults have bachelor degree
(Communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov, 2020). However, limited English proficiency is high
among 30.4 per cent of the adult population (Communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov, 2020). It has
been seen that the community has 19.47 per cent of industrial and manufacturing companies
(Communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov, 2020). Public facilities and institutions are present in
10.48 per cent area of the community. 6.11 per cent of commercial places are present as well
(Communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov, 2020). There are some vacant land is present as well at
least 3 to 4 per cent of the community area (Communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov, 2020). There
are 38 public schools present in Bronx community and 4 public libraries as well (Andrews, &
Saint Hilaire, 2017). A total of 37 hospitals are present in the area and 12 prominent pars are also