What are characteristics of the worst hoods in your city?

Here is my personal evaluation of the hoods in Indy from experience. I grew up in the 2-1/2-G neighborhood, north of Bush Stadium downtown. Its about 100% black, and there were quite a few shootings and they occured often. Someone from Haughville got killed in this hood a while back. Anyway a typical Indianapolis hood will be around 50-100 percent black (we dont have a large hispanic population), with foursquare or duplex houses (of which half are boarded up or dilapidated), and narrow streets Indianapolis hoods are in an area that covers: all of Center Township, southern third of Washington Township, western quarter of Warren Township, eastern third of Wayne Township, and the area just south of downtown. Everything else is pretty much stereotypical suburban. >