Flatbush, a middle- to upper-middle-class community, is plagued by car thefts and burglaries, the police say.

Schools in middle- and upper-middle-class communities also looked very much like one another in many ways, including extensive parental involvement.

Of those students, only a fraction lived in this a middle- to upper-middle-class community, named for the movie studios established here during the silent film era.

Like her character, Ms. Shange grew up as a child of privilege in an upper-middle-class black community.

Port Washington is an example of an upper-middle-class community affected by gangs.

Neighbors in the upper-middle-class community in northeastern Miami where the 11,000 plants were found said they were shocked.

All Manhattan north of that line was Harlem, a white upper-middle-class community favored by the city's leading businessmen and politicians.

The college draws many of its 60,000 students from the middle- and upper-middle-class communities around it.

All parties involved are white and grew up in an upper-middle-class community of 7,000 about five miles west of downtown Newark.