The Bay State Banner: Boston neighborhoods reveal changing city
Originally published December 30, 2021 | The Bay State Banner
Political dynamics are shifting in Hyde Park and Dorchester’s Savin Hill enclave as both neighborhoods diversify, multiple community members said.
An analysis of racial and ethnic demographic changes in the voting precincts overlapping Hyde Park and Savin Hill found that the Asian population, while small, has increased by 25.9% for Savin Hill’s Ward 13, Precinct 10, while the white population declined by more than 20% in the neighborhood. Meanwhile, in Hyde Park’s politically dominant, conservative-voting Readville and Fairmount neighborhoods, the white population dropped by more than 50% and now makes up little more than one-third of the residents there.