FACTS ABOUT WEST DALLAS TODAY
Residents of West Dallas (Zip 75212) experience a greater rate of potential life loss (78.0 years per 1,000 residents) compared to Dallas County as a whole (42.8 years per 1,000 residents).
Residents of West Dallas suffer in great numbers with more hospital visits than Dallas County residents (153.2 visits per 1,000 residents in West Dallas compared to 115.8 per 1,000 residents in Dallas County) and 60% of West Dallas residents have no health insurance.
An astonishing 70% of the West Dallas district lives below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level. 51% make less than $25,000 annually or less, and 25% earn less than $10,000. Poverty affects 66.6% of Hispanics in Oakley’s West Dallas district and 29.8% of blacks. (Source: Parkland Hospital’s “Our Community Health Checkup, 2005 for Dallas County.” Also see: Research Compilation: West Dallas (Zip Code 75212) FCE-The J. McDonald Williams Institute. December 2006).
The district has seen little or no economic development with only 400 businesses operating with 1/3rd employing four or fewer people.
The unemployment rate is more than double the city of Dallas (13.8% in West Dallas vs. 6.6% for city of Dallas).
Source: Research Compilation: West Dallas (Zip Code 75212) FCE-The J. McDonald Williams Institute. December 2006. P.7.
Poverty rate for female-headed households with children under 18 years of age was 62%-more than 1.7 times the city of Dallas’ rate of 35%.
West Dallas has suffered with more crime than the city of Dallas. The area bordered by Interstate 30, Singleton, Westmoreland, and Hampton has 8 times the city’s crime rate, while other parts of West Dallas have either 5 times or 2.3 times the amount of crime compared to the city of Dallas.
Source: Research Compilation: West Dallas (Zip Code 75212) FCE-The J. McDonald Williams Institute. December 2006. P.14.
There are currently 65-convicted sex offenders that show their residence in West Dallas zip code 75212. Many have a residence beside the homes of families with school children.
Source: http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/dpd/sexoffendersrequest.htm. Study on sex offenders adjacent to schoolchildren:
Source: SJI Project Transformation Survey of West Dallas Leaders. 2007.
In 2006, more than 2,057 crimes were committed against West Dallas residents, over 446 of them violent crimes.
Source: Dallas Police Department at http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/dpd/stat_beat.htm 2006 Crime Stats.
Only 35% of the population in West Dallas over the age of 25 has completed high school, compared to 70 % completion with the rest of the city of Dallas.
In 2005, 2.2% of West Dallas residents had graduated from college compared to 28% for the city of Dallas.
Source: Research Compilation: West Dallas (Zip Code 75212) FCE-The J. McDonald Williams Institute. December 2006. P.11.
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