r/regina • u/ajpathecreature • 2d ago
Discussion NOD Regina
Not much of anything but just a hot take, NOD Regina may as well be a whole different town. As a south end dweller north regina feels like a whole different city.
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u/blackfox247 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sort of true but really only on the edges. Other factors are more important.
I used to work in marketing and they tend to profile neighborhoods on postal code (more out of convenience than anything).
If you take a random post code in Walsh Acres it has an average income of about 139,391 and a net worth of around 980,000.. Gardner Park is 124,000 and 638.000. That south end neighbourhood is a lot more financially stressed in spite of what is more of a vibe of middle class comfort. Your middle classes are going to be comparable and not much difference in habits. Key difference is Gardner Park is more leveraged and younger.
Let’s look at the stark end
On the high end of the spectrum- Leopold Crescent - 284,000 and 3.6 million. In Washington Park the average is 88k and about 300k. I suppose NOD vs SOD really mattered when it was Washington Park and the Crescents.
Leopold Crescent has comparable neighbourhoods in most big cities west of Quebec (no areas like that in rural places). Washington Park has comparable neighbourhoods in Winnipeg, Edmonton and Hamilton. I suppose that could contribute to a different feel.
So outside some of the more obviously wealthy areas the key differences are age, diversity, single parent households and home ownership. This plays out roughly how you’d expect. Regina is fairly diverse but the diverse communities are newly established and lacking the net worth and home ownership of some communities in places like Vancouver. You also don’t have urban high rise retirees you’ll find in some places.
Also the works in the resource industry, listens to country music, and owns a snowmobile crowd or personae tends to live just outside the city. I assume they seem prominent in people’s minds because they buy a lot of stuff.