Class B vs Class C neighborhood

[Pamela Edwards]

How are you determining neighborhood class? Are there set criteria that separates class B from class C? Or is there a way to look it up based on demographics?

[Scott Mac]

@Pamela Edwards

There is no cut and dried way to do this.

Here is how I go about it.

I always start with Class D neighborhoods. D is for Danger. If I am uncomfortable getting out of the vehicle in an area to me it's a Class D neighborhood. Heavy violent crime and Rape areas. For this I go by Zip Code. 

Then I look for where the newest construction is happening (that's not in a Class D Neighborhood) and also look for areas that are considered the most desirable to live in, in that area. These I call Class A areas. But I do not use zip code for this, because B and C neighborhoods can be close by in some instances.

This only leaves B and C Neighborhoods to figure out.

B neighborhoods for me, I call a nice working middle class area, and C neighborhoods I call "The working poor". 

In C areas I would have no trouble eating in a fast food in the area at any time of the day or night. Just hard working people trying making a living.

Birds of a feather flock together.

That's how I do it.

Good Luck!