Southside Chattanooga in the 37408 ZIP code has been designated as one of the fastest gentrifying ZIP codes in the United States over a 10-year period according to the 2010 census.Census data notes neighborhood racial shiftsChanging districtsYear // Population // Black // White374082000 // 1,935 // 1,640 // 1642010 // 1,486 // 676 // 671374032000 // 3,846 // 1,979 // 1,6762010 // 5,811 // 1,751 // 3,841Source: U.S. Census BureauTOP 20Location ZipChattanooga 37408Austin, Texas 78702Brooklyn, N.Y. 11205Brooklyn, N.Y. 11206Oklahoma City 73104Washington, D.C. 20001Atlanta 30317Denver 80205Charleston, S.C. 29492Washington, D.C. 20010Tampa, Fla. 33602St. Paul, Minn. 55101Chattanooga 37403Brooklyn, N.Y. 11238Washington, D.C. 20005St. Louis, Mo. 63101San Diego 92113Houston 77003Philadelphia 19123Portland, Ore. 97227Source: Michael J. Petrilli, executive vice president, Thomas Fordham Institute
The long push to attract more middle-class people to live downtown is paying off on the Southside, a new study shows.
The neighborhood and surrounding area in the 37408 ZIP code has the fastest rate of “gentrification” — basically, white people moving into poor city neighborhoods — in the nation, according to the study by the Thomas Fordham Institute’s Michael Petrilli, though some in Chattanooga question his figures.
Using figures from the 2000 and 2010 censuses, Petrilli calculated the 50 urban areas that had the greatest shifts in black and white populations in the nation by ZIP code.
No. 1 was 37408, which marches east from Market Street, ducks south of the National Cemetery, zigzags around Montague Park and scoops up Howard School and part of Broad Street.