Would you rather live in Brooklyn Center or Rogers?

[minionofmidas]

Rogers: 97% White
Brooklyn Center: 70% White
That the kind of statistic you're thinking of, MHS?
Or this one: Rogers 3,600 inhabitants in 2000, but guessed to have grown by 50%(!!!) since then
Brooklyn Center: 30,000 inhabitants.

[minionofmidas]

Well, it obviously is one.
Although "predominantly White population" would apply to Brooklyn Center but is misleading for Rogers.

[minionofmidas]

It's good to see that BRTD doesn't hate all suburbs anymore, just those that vote Republican.

Seriously, this shows why a discussion of suburbs is burdened by the definition. These communities are both in Hennepin county, but they differ in many ways.

Age of housing:                   Brooklyn Center      Rogers

Built 1999 to March 2000                42                     362
Built 1995 to 1998                          95                     510
Built 1990 to 1994                        140                     155
Built 1980 to 1989                        960                       69
Built 1970 to 1979                     2,167                       68
Built 1960 to 1969                     2,596                       54
Built 1950 to 1959                     4,717                       48
Built 1940 to 1949                        578                         7
Built 1939 or earlier                      304                       37
 
Total:                                       11,599                  1,310
 
Median Year of Construction:      1961                   1997


Number of rooms per unit:   Brooklyn Center      Rogers

1 room                                          218                         3
2 rooms                                        532                       22
3 rooms                                     1,212                       65
4 rooms                                     1,550                       68
5 rooms                                     2,786                     167
6 rooms                                     2,193                     188
7 rooms                                     1,226                     227
8 rooms                                        925                     243
9 or more rooms                           957                     327
 
The communities represent two eras in housing stock. Brooklyn Center is from the smaller post-war housing plus 60's-70's era apartments (31% of units are rented). Rogers is a predominantly new community with housing largely built in the last 15 years.  That housing fits the modern sytle of larger detached units, and the new area has not yet developed many rental units (7%).

Brr. Postwar architecture. I think I'll switch to option three, "under the bridge".

Okay, so that's an exaggeration. The building I'm living in  now is postwar too.