Section 1. Community Profile: Yellow Springs 1970-2000 Back to: Overall index Back to: Introduction and Goal of the Study Section 1. Community Profile: Yellow Springs 1970-2000 Introduction and Goal Procedure County Profile Demographics Population Change Comparison Population Percent Change Occupation Comparison Income Change Comparison Poverty Change Comparison Education Attainment Change Comparison Median Age Change Comparison Gender of Population Change Comparison Racial Diversity Change Comparison Household Change Comparison Housing Value Change Comparison Employment Change in Yellow Springs Change in Households in Yellow Springs Forward to: Section 2. Cost of Living Comparison: Yellow Springs and Neighboring Communities, 2000 Forward to: Appendix A: Tabulated Data from original Sources

SECTION 1: COMMUNITY PROFILE: YELLOW SPRINGS 1970-2000 INTRODUCTION AND GOAL This section is designed to give basic demographic information about Yellow Springs over several decades. In order to facilitate understanding the data within a meaningful context, data for Ohio and the United States for the same time periods are given, as well. For further comparison, Greene County data, in profile format, are also available on the Internet at: http://www.odod.state.oh.us/osr/profiles/pdf/greene.pdf Features of the Yellow Springs community, which are considered in this section include total population and percent changes over time, income, poverty, occupation, education, gender, age, race, number of households, persons per household, and housing value. Yellow Springs housing value is also compared to neighboring communities in Section 2: Cost of Living Comparison. PROCEDURE The Greene County Profile, mentioned above, was used as a basic model for the Yellow Springs Community Profile section. However, in the interest of brevity, five of the fifteen sections included in the Greene County Profile have not been used in this cost of living report. The sections omitted include population migration, persons in household, family households, non-family households, and vital statistics. The listing on the following page compares the features presented in the Greene County profile and those considered in this report.

Greene County Profile Yellow Springs Community Profile 1970-2000 Population Population Gender Gender Race Race Age Age Population migration -- Persons in household -- Persons in group quarters Persons in group quarters Households Households Family households -- Non-family households -- Housing units Housing units Educational attainment & Income Educational attainment & Income Poverty Poverty Vital statistics -- Per capita income Per capita income All data included in this community profile section are taken from the U.S. Bureau of the Census from four continuous decades: 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000. See Appendix, Tables 1 through 9, for details.