About a neighborhood in Riviera Beach from NeighborhoodScout (the Post's expert source for local community information)

The website NeighborhoodScout (NHS) is an expert source for information by The Palm Beach Post. Recently the 'expert data' at NHS were used to report on 'crime' in the City of Lake Worth.

If you'll recall, NHS reported that West Palm Beach (where the Post is headquartered) was one of the most dangerous cities in America:

The 'experts' at NHS report that 94% of cities in America are safer than West Palm Beach.

Below the experts at NHS report on a community in Riviera Beach: Martin Luther King Jr Blvd/Old Dixie Hwy:

     Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the Martin Luther King Jr Blvd / Old Dixie Hwy neighborhood about it; they already know. 32.2% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.6% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
     In addition, the Martin Luther King Jr Blvd / Old Dixie Hwy neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (75.9%) than found in 98.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

We'll be reading about this neighborhood soon in the Post, I'm sure, considering this neighborhood is ranked an "acute" problem by the experts at NHS.