1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Ward · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias A concentrated disadvantage is a sociological term for neighborhoods with high percentages of residents of low socioeconomic status.
It is expressed as the percent of households located in census tracts with high levels of concentrated disadvantage.
[1] Concentrated disadvantage has been found to be positively related to homicide rates and reduces probability of high school completion.
[2][3] A positive association between concentrated disadvantage and rates of violence more generally has also been found; this relationship is mediated primarily by collective efficacy.
[5] Child development is enhanced the most in neighborhoods with approximately equal amounts of concentrated disadvantage and affluence.