Of the 55 Baltimore neighborhoods ( @bniajfi) in '18, 4 had above city avg. rates of unemployment and driving alone to work and below avg. car access and neighborhood businesses:

Greater Govans
Dorchester/Ashburton
Brooklyn/Curtis Bay/Hawkins Point
Westport/Mount Winans/Lakeland

These are parts of the city where there are few local employment opportunities, where many people are out of work, where those who do have work drive to get there, and where large parts of the population don't have cars. In other words, where potential workers are trapped.

I wonder if the City is doing anything specifically to address the desert of economic activity and/or the transit connectivity to other centers of employment for these neighborhoods in particular.

All 4 of these neighborhoods are also majority non-white, with the whitest of the 4 being Brooklyn/Curtis Bay/Hawkins Point, the 3rd most racially diverse neighborhood in the city due to a relatively large Hispanic population (14.7%).

There are many other neighborhoods that have high unemployment and low car access and few neighborhood businesses, but where people who are employed commute more (relative to the city average) by means other than driving alone. That is a transit issue in its own right as well.

For those curious only one neighborhood of the 55 came in on the 'positive' side of all 4 metrics (high car access, low car commuting, high neighborhood businesses, low unemployment): Orangeville/East Highlandtown, which includes these areas and is 37% Hispanic (tops in the city)

To Michael's point, the Orangeville/East Highlandtown neighborhood centered around Bayview Hospital has the highest share of carpooling of any of the city's 55 neighborhoods at just under 19%. Slightly more people carpool than commute by transit there. https://twitter.com/mbradle3/status/1361457594678845440?s=19

Here are the 55 Baltimore neighborhoods from the @bniajfi scattered by % of Households With Vehicles (x) and % of People Driving Alone to Work (y) in 2018, color coded by unemployment rate. City average is in black and the average unemployment rate was 9.3%, for reference.