MOCO Map of the Week--Percent White by Census Tract 2010

Today's map looks at the distribution of the white population in Montgomery county.  People who identify as white comprise 59% of the population in Montgomery County.  The white share of MOCO's population is slightly higher than it is for the state of Maryland (58.2%), but substantially lower than it is for the country as a whole (72.4%). 

Two patterns stand out from this map.  First, the white population in Montgomery is clustered in three places--along DC's western border (and extending along the Potomac), in the county's most western tracts, and in the northern tip of the county.  Second, there are four tracts where the white population is greater than 90%, and all of them are located inside the beltway in Friendship Heights/Bethesda (see mini-map below).