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The avenge socioeconomic status of the resident white and nonwhite populations of city, suburb, and fringe zones of the older and larger SMSAs in 1960 was investigated. The pattern most often observed was that suburbs had higher avenge levels than cities or fringe areas, and fringe areas had higher levels than cities. Only the magnitude of the differences between suburbs and cities was considered large. For the white population alone, the avenge status levels of cities and fringe areas were about equal and slightly below those of suburbs. For non-white residents, in contrast, the most consistently observed pattern was for cities to have higher SES levels than suburbs which in turn had higher SES levels than fringe areas. Thus, systematic differences in socioeconomic status existed among the city, suburbs, and fringe zones of older and larger SMSAs. However, the differences were small when race was controlled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]