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St. Louis Hills, parts of Boulevard Heights, anything west of River Des Peres, North Pointe, parts of Baden, Riverview all developed after 1940 and housed baby boomers.



According to the rankings on that website I posted, St. Louis is ranked #3,099 out of 3,140 counties in median housing age (newer housing taking higher spots, of course). That's pretty substantial to be in the bottom 50 in the country. But, of course, we're actually just one small city and not an entire county in the traditional sense.

goat314 wrote:

Urban Elitist wrote:

I was asking if he was getting his percentage of housing by using only "The City of STL" and comparing it to full on metro areas. That would explain our unusually high numbers. A lot of the listed cities have their newer suburban sprawly areas included within their boundaries, thus dropping thier pre-40's housing stock percentage.

No I think the numbers are correct, its just alot of other cities have done a lot of construction in the central cities after 1940 unlike St. Louis, but of course St. Louis doesn't market itself as an historical city and we let these idiotic politicians tear down our historical architecture.

Had you read the thread, you would have seen that these numbers do in fact use city boundaries and therefore there is a significant Quitno effect here. That explains the large descrepencies with similar midwestern cities numbers.



Still, interesting topic for a thread though.

That website is awesome by the way.



These are the 20 lowest median housing age counties with populations over 250,000 in the country:





211 Delaware County, PA 1954

212 Milwaukee County, WI 1954

213 Essex County, MA 1953

214 Union County, NJ 1953

215 Bronx County, NY 1953

216 Erie County, NY 1953

217 Nassau County, NY 1953

218 Providence County, RI 1953

219 Allegheny County, PA 1952

220 Essex County, NJ 1951

221 Queens County, NY 1950

222 District of Columbia, DC 1949

223 Hudson County, NJ 1948

224 Baltimore, MD (county equivalent) 1947

225 New York County, NY 1946

226 Luzerne County, PA 1946

227 Kings County, NY 1945

228 Philadelphia County, PA 1945

229 St. Louis, MO (county equivalent) 1941

230 San Francisco County, CA 1940

231 Suffolk County, MA



EDIT: I get it now. They use the census data that only goes back until 1939 for specific housing construction dates. So all of the oldest cities in the country have a 1939 median housing age, because most of the housing is in the category "1939 or earlier".

So pre 1939 becomes a lump sum?