Mobility Rates in Making Connections Survey Communities, Five Years Later Kate Bachtell, Ph.D. Catherine Haggerty Becki Curtis

Background: Mobility & Child Wellbeing among Families with Children Residential mobility impacts economic and social well- being “Disrupts root systems” (Putnam, 1995) Often coincides with union formation/dissolution among parents (e.g. South et al., 1998) “Typically serves to reproduce urban inequality instead of disrupting it” (Sharkey, 2012)

Background Retrieved online 2 March 2017 from http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/13/americans-are-moving-at-historically-low- rates-in-part-because-millennials-are-staying-put/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=8c74db95b0- EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-8c74db95b0-400245589

Background Retrieved online 16 April 2017 from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/visualizations/geographic-mobility/time- series/historic/figure-a-1.1.png.

Data Title Making Connections Survey (MC) Funding agency Annie E. Casey Foundation Summary Longitudinal study of families in low-income neighborhoods in ten U.S. cities Access Restricted use within NORC's Data Enclave Sample type AP and list of focal children Key advantages Representation of very poor and racial/ethnic minority households Detailed household roster information (relationship of each person to the R and FC) and linked personal identifiers

Data Collection Phases Baseline Wave 2 Wave 3 RDD Wave 1 2009-2014 ACS   2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Current Objectives Revisit findings related to residential mobility from the Making Connections Survey Provide an update on trends roughly five years following the completion of the baseline survey

Analysis Created comparison tables using geographic mobility data at the national, state, Census place & Census tract levels, from the 2014 American Community Survey Calculated geographic mobility counts for MC neighborhoods by aggregating area weighted, tract level data Created thematic maps showing the mobility rate by Census tract and highlighting those tracts that have a higher rate of geographic mobility than that of their surrounding Census designated place (city)

Findings: Summary 7-site average mobility rate = 23% (vs. 15% nationally) In 5 out of 7 sites, the mobility rate of the MC neighborhood > respective rate for surrounding city* MC Des Moines = highly mobile neighborhood in a fairly mobile city MC Louisville = highly mobile neighborhood in a very stable city In San Antonio and White Center, the mobility rates of MC neighborhood < the respective rates for surrounding city

MC Des Moines: Central DM West and Central DM East

Source: Coulton, C. , Theodos, B. , & Turner, M. A. November 2009 Source: Coulton, C., Theodos, B., & Turner, M.A. November 2009. “Family mobility and neighborhood change: New evidence and implications for community initiatives.” The Urban Institute, Annie E. Casey Foundation Making Connections Research Series. http://mcstudy.norc.org/publications/files/411973%20family_mobility.pdf

Newspaper headline retrieved online 20 March 2017 from http://www Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index report retrieved online 20 March 2017 from http://info.healthways.com/hubfs/Gallup-Healthways%20State%20of%20American%20Well-Being_2016%20Community%20Rankings%20vFINAL.pdf?t=1488900221089

MC Des Moines: Recent Mobility Trends

Profile: Viva East Bank Long-standing core center of Des Moines (housing from early 1900s) Stable in population size Changing racial demographics Source: Bruner, C., & Trefz, M.N. 11 April 2017. “Place, Race, Poverty and Young Children: Imperatives and Opportunities for Health Equity.” Presentation for Iowa Governor’s Conference on Public Health. Des Moines, IA.

MC White Center: White Center, Boulevard Park

Source: Coulton, C. , Theodos, B. , & Turner, M. A. November 2009 Source: Coulton, C., Theodos, B., & Turner, M.A. November 2009. “Family mobility and neighborhood change: New evidence and implications for community initiatives.” The Urban Institute, Annie E. Casey Foundation Making Connections Research Series. http://mcstudy.norc.org/publications/files/411973%20family_mobility.pdf

MC White Center: Recent Mobility Trends

Next Steps Continue conversations with local site partners re: components of neighborhood change Qualitative interviews with subset of families in Making Connections neighborhoods? Insert Presentation Title and Any Confidentiality Information

bachtell-kate@norc.org