Black and Hispanic households tend to live in much poorerneighborhoods than White households with the same income.

Despite the success of the Civil Rights movement in mostly eliminating official segregation in the 1960s, racial residential and economic segregation remains a huge problem in the US. In new research, Lindsay Fox and colleagues find that households of different races, but the same income, live in very different neighborhoods. She writes that the typical White household is in a neighborhood with a median income 40 percent higher than that of the typical Black household