Favored Quarters

[King of Kensington]

Income maps for 8 Canadian cities:

http://neighbourhoodchange.ca/documents/2015/12/maps-of-ct-incomes-eight-cmas-2012.pdf

Halifax:  South

Montreal:  West/SW

Ottawa:   Rockcliffe Park is wealthiest (east of Rideau Canal) but western suburbs somewhat wealthier than eastern suburbs

Toronto:  Affluent central corridor/northern sector, secondary wealth concentration in western GTA suburbs

Winnipeg: South

Calgary:  West

Vancouver:  West Side and North Shore suburbs

[King of Kensington]

If you surveyed say, partners at a downtown law firm, I suspect in Chicago a majority would live in the favored quarter (either affluent center-city neighborhoods like Lincoln Park or North Shore suburbs).  But if you did the same in New York - what would the distribution look like for those outside Manhattan?  I'm guessing there would be some bias towards Westchester, but some would live in NJ and Long Island too. 

[King of Kensington]

The dominance of Westchester (and Fairfield) over Nassau is pretty indicative, I think.

Interesting.  Nassau wealth seems somewhat less "prestigious" and more "nouveau riche" than Westchester/Connecticut, there's probably fewer Ivy League grads and that sort of thing.  Plus transplants to the NYC area, if they opt for the suburbs, tend to avoid Long Island. 

But still more dispersed than what I'd expect to see in say, Chicago. 

[King of Kensington]

[King of Kensington]

Toronto's "favored quarter" runs essentially through 4 electoral districts running north from the core: University-Rosedale (Annex, Rosedale), St. Paul's (Forest Hill, Yonge-St. Clair), Eglinton-Lawrence (North Toronto), and Don Valley West (Lawrence Park, York Mills).  These districts have populations of about 100,000 each (and all are rather mixed).

https://www.elections.ca/res/cir/maps2/mapprov.asp?map=Toronto&prov=35&b=n&lang=e

Average income:

Don Valley West $109,887
University-Rosedale  $98,820
St. Paul's  $92,952
Eglinton-Lawrence  $81,773

University degree:

University-Rosedale  67.1%
Don Valley West  62.7%
St. Paul's  60.5%
Eglinton-Lawrence  53.3%