Politics & Government
Data: Jamaica Plain Fifth-Most Prideful Boston Neighborhood
Election data about whether you sign your checks "Boston" or "Jamaica Plain" puts us behind Hyde Park, Roslindale, Charlestown and Dorchester.
Do you give your address as Jamaica Plain or Boston?
While reviewing some recent Federal Election Commission data to get a , we noticed a snag: many residents listed their neighborhood instead of Boston on the "city" line of their contribution.
So, we did a little analysis. Of the 574 checks written from the 02130 Zip Code to presidential candidates, only 97 listed themselves as being in Boston. The rest said they lived in Jamaica Plain. That gives JP an 85.5 percent rate of neighborhood pride—enough to make it Boston’s fifth-most prideful neighborhood.
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The top spot goes to Hyde Park, where just one check out of 56 from the 02136 Zip Code listed its city as Boston.
Residents of several other neighborhoods opted not to label themselves as Bostonians, but, notably, the entire population of the city's downtown core listed their place of residence as Boston.
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Now, this isn’t exactly a comprehensive survey, but it does give us a window into how Boston’s residents think of themselves.
Selected data from the analysis:
Neighborhood
Checks from
“Boston”
Checks from
neighborhood
Checks
Total
Pride
rate
Hyde Park
1
55
56
98.2%
Roslindale
11
162
173
93.6%
Charlestown
14
172
186
92.5%
Dorchester
60
396
456
86.8%
Jamaica Plain
97
574
671
85.5%
West Roxbury
43
158
201
78.6%
South Boston
116
53
169
31.4%
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