| Sumario: | A study was conducted to analyze the determinants of living in local areas with higher or lower crime rates in the Cleveland metropolitan region in 1990. Central city crime data from the Cleveland Police Department and crime data for suburban places above 10,000 in population from the Uniform Crime Reports were analyzed. Multivariate models were estimated for whites and blacks, with separate models for city and suburban residents and for violent crimes and property crime. Findings indicated that exposure to violent crime and property crime within the city is strongly related to socioeconomic status for both blacks and whites, but that there are strong independent effects of race on exposure to violent crime too. In addition, it was found that in the suburbs, whites are concentrated in communities with low crime rates regardless of their social class. Finally, it was observed that there are substantial class differences among suburban nonwhites, but that even affluent blacks live in places with a higher violent crime rate than do poor whites.
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