As I put in my last post, I have been researching housing in the Bon Air Neighborhood. My original motivation was to analyze the number of rental houses in the neighborhood.
It took a bit of time to collect this data and then figure out how to get some software that I could figure out and that would create some usable information. But now after some tinkering I can try again but with some success this time.
The database for this research was created from the Jefferson County Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) website and the Lojic.org website. Both have similar data, but the PVA site could be pasted into an Excel file. The database was compiled between February 2019 and December 2019. The information was subject to some change based on property sales.
The statistical software that is being used for the analysis is JASP which is an open source program created by the University of Amsterdam. JASP stands for "Just Another Statistical Program, " man am I lucky to be a native English speaker because they could have named it something in the Dutch language.
Anyway, the information was categorized in the following fashion:
For cleanness of analysis apartment houses, businesses, government owned properties and religious institutions were removed. It is noted that there is somewhat diverse property ownership.
The term zone recognizes the official boundaries of the Bon Air Estates and Highgate Springs Neighborhood Associations. From what I can tell is that when the now defunct Louisville Metro Department of Neighborhoods facilitated the organization, they went by census tract. There are two census tracts in the historical Bon Air Neighborhood, and the boundaries of the Highgate Springs Neighborhood Association represents one of the tracts. The Bon Air Estates section was essentially created in 2008 via the divergence of opinion between the neighborhood leaders at that time.
So, to get to the first analysis: how many houses are where?
First it is important to note that there were 1995 single-family houses in the Bon Air Neighborhood.
The Bon Air Zone has 54.8 percent or 1094 of the houses. The Highgate Springs Zone has 33.8 percent or 674 of the houses. The Bon Air Estates zone has 11.4 percent or 227 houses.
What this looks like in a bar graph is :
In the next post on Housing Values I will look again at the actual monetary values of the single-family homes.
It took a bit of time to collect this data and then figure out how to get some software that I could figure out and that would create some usable information. But now after some tinkering I can try again but with some success this time.
The database for this research was created from the Jefferson County Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) website and the Lojic.org website. Both have similar data, but the PVA site could be pasted into an Excel file. The database was compiled between February 2019 and December 2019. The information was subject to some change based on property sales.
The statistical software that is being used for the analysis is JASP which is an open source program created by the University of Amsterdam. JASP stands for "Just Another Statistical Program, " man am I lucky to be a native English speaker because they could have named it something in the Dutch language.
Anyway, the information was categorized in the following fashion:
- Street
- House
- Owner
- Zone
- Rental or Not Rental
- Value
For cleanness of analysis apartment houses, businesses, government owned properties and religious institutions were removed. It is noted that there is somewhat diverse property ownership.
The term zone recognizes the official boundaries of the Bon Air Estates and Highgate Springs Neighborhood Associations. From what I can tell is that when the now defunct Louisville Metro Department of Neighborhoods facilitated the organization, they went by census tract. There are two census tracts in the historical Bon Air Neighborhood, and the boundaries of the Highgate Springs Neighborhood Association represents one of the tracts. The Bon Air Estates section was essentially created in 2008 via the divergence of opinion between the neighborhood leaders at that time.
So, to get to the first analysis: how many houses are where?
The Bon Air Zone has 54.8 percent or 1094 of the houses. The Highgate Springs Zone has 33.8 percent or 674 of the houses. The Bon Air Estates zone has 11.4 percent or 227 houses.
What this looks like in a bar graph is :
In the next post on Housing Values I will look again at the actual monetary values of the single-family homes.
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