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Where are housing types located in Irvine?
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Irvine at 50: The changing landscape of housing, commuting, and amenities June, 2022
Figure 3.3 Mixed= mixed housing; Single (D)= detached single family housing units; Single (A)= attached single family housing units; Apartment (2-19): apartment complexes with 2-19 units; Apartment (20+): apartment complexes with 20 or more units; Mobile homes= mobile homes; NA= too little housing development.
Where are housing types located in Irvine?
Although a goal of the village model was to mix different housing types together, to what extent was this successful? And which neighborhoods tend to have larger concentrations of certain types of housing? We define neighborhoods as block groups since 1990, and as census tracts (which are about three times larger than block groups) in the earlier years given data availability.
To see where housing is located, we determined for each neighborhood what the predominant housing type was in the neighborhood (e.g., detached single family housing, townhomes, small apartment complexes, large apartment complexes, etc.). For neighborhoods that did not have one primary type of housing (at least 50% of housing), we classified them as having mixed housing. Figure 3.3 displays maps of the neighborhoods over this time period based on this classification scheme.
