Presenting Author: Sean Locke, MPH, World Trade Center Health Registry, Division of Epidemiology, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

ABSTRACT

Background: Neighborhood gentrification can displace longtime residents from nondeprived to deprived neighborhoods and negatively affect health.

Methods: To identify consistently nondeprived, gentrifying, declining, and consistently deprived neighborhoods, we applied the Ross and Mirowsky neighborhood disadvantage index by applying U.S. Census Bureau (2000) and American Community Survey (2005–2015) data to NYCMA public use microdata areas (PUMAs). We examined neighborhood movement among persons from the WTCHR with 2003–2016 geocoded address data. Persons never moving or moving between the same types of neighborhoods were considered nondisplaced. Persons moving from consistently nondeprived/gentrifying to declining/consistently deprived neighborhoods were considered displaced.

Results: Of 156 NYCMA PUMAs, 118 were classified as consistently nondeprived; 17 as gentrifying; 7 as declining; and 14 as consistently deprived. Of the 61,238 persons in the WTCHR with ≥2 NYCMA geocoded addresses, 64.8% (39,710) lived in the same PUMA during the study period; 77.7% resided in consistently nondeprived, 16.3% in gentrifying, 1.5% in declining, and 4.5% in consistently deprived PUMAs. The remaining 21,528 (35.2%) enrollees moved ≥1 time to a different PUMA (range: 1–7), including 1,378 who were categorized as displaced.

Implications: Data from large, longitudinal datasets, such as the WTCHR, can be used to describe movements of residents across neighborhood types of varying socioeconomic deprivation over time. Future work will explore health effects of neighborhood displacement among persons in the WTCHR.

Authors: Eugenie Poirot, PhD; Aldo Crossa, MSc; Sean Locke, MPH; Melanie Jacobson, MPH; Cheryl Stein, PhD; and Sung woo Lim, MA, MS, DrPH.