Mayor Introduces City Council Redistricting Plan

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In accordance with the deadline established by the City Charter, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake today introduced a plan for redistricting City Council districts. The plan adheres to standards established by the Supreme Court of the United States, and creates districts that are approximately equal in population and reflect the racial demographics of the city.  For the largest size of the map on the left, click here.

The 2010 Census population and demographic data provided by the federal government are not available in time to meet the redistricting deadline mandated in the City Charter. When that data becomes available, the Mayor’s Office will reanalyze the 2010 redistricting plan and offer amendments, if necessary, in order to ensure that the goals outlined by the Mayor are met.

In order to meet the deadline, the Mayor’s Office used Neilson Claritas Census Block Group estimates for 2010 to approximate changes in city population over the past decade. At the block group levels, Neilson Claritas base count information is based on sources including “…local estimates, trends in United States Postal Service deliverable address counts, counts from the Nielsen Claritas Master Address File, Hanley Wood new residential development data, and Valassis counts of new housing units.”

To learn more about Nielsen Claritas methodology, visit: http://www.claritas.com/collateral/data/update-demographics-2009-summary-methodology.pdf

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