City Income Donuts
City income "donuts." Info-laden income distribution maps of several American cities. I've never been to Phoenix, but it looks very segregated, at least by class. (via kottke)
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i think that's a little misleading. remember, these don't account for population density, and seem to be segmented by maybe zip code or something. phoenix's huge swaths of bright blues and reds in the corners likely correspond to big defined regions with few people in them, because the density dropoff in the desert is so severe. Compare this with Los Angeles, which is mightily class-segregated, but looks less drastic than Phoenix because it is denser so the brightest spots are also the smallest. In the urban core of phoenix we see a "pie" (that Rankin describes as typical in "newer" cities) not to my eyes significantly different from Chicago, the right side of DFW (is that one dallas?), Houston, DC, Atlanta, St. Louis, etc.
I read somewhere recently (the LA times?) that boston has one of the highest per capita middle classes in big cities (LA has one of the lowest); perhaps this is indicated by the huge swaths of white in its urban core, particularly in the north and south shores. While experience tells us boston is quite racially segregated, economically it seems to be pretty mixed...or maybe everybody just tends to earn around $27k
This is one example of how being even slightly colorblind can prove very frustrating. These maps are meaningless to my genetically defective eyes. However, I'll just go with it. Yay America --where everyone is middle class.
Maybe 27k is middle class in rural Nebraska.
are you saying i'm lower class?
Hmm, apparently I am. I didn't thnk 27k was so bad for a per capita average, considering a family of four with small children can get by on less per person than, say, a single twenty-something, and I can get by in an expensive city, going to restaurants occasionally and plus all the travelling, for less than that, but according to various sources (google "us per capita income" and they pull a quote from the world factbook!) it's around 40k (that's per capita gdp, but i think that means the same thing when looking on the macro scale...some business major can help me here). Of course, that's a mean, not a median, so warren buffet and most of beverly hills are really skewing things.
The richest county in nebraska has per capita income of 22k, btw, so Lorelei was mostly on the mark.
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