Class-Divided Cities: Dallas Edition

This is the seventh of a series of posts that explore the class divides across America's largest cities and metros. Using data from the American Community Survey, each explores the geography of class within a large city and metro area. For a detailed description of methodology, see the first post in the series.

The map above shows the geography of class for the city of Dallas, Texas; the map below charts the pattern for the entire metro area, which includes Fort Worth, Plano, Arlington, and Denton. The creative class lives in the areas that are shaded in purple, the red areas are primarily service class, and the blue are working class. Each colored space on the map is a Census tract, a small area within a city or county that can be even smaller than a neighborhood.