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I think house-hunters and house-sellers would find this map really useful.

www.RichBlocksPoorBlocks.com

It's an interactive map where you type in your address, city, and/or state, then you see a color-coded map of your neighborhood's median income, and the median income of surrounding areas.

Here's an example map. It's Washington, D.C.
http://i.imgur.com/N0Fxc.jpg

Question:
Is your area lower class, middle class, or upper class?

Choices:
Lower class
Middle class
Upper class

 

Totally inaccurate in my city.

According to the results, my city includes all ranges (lower to uppper class) of our state's median household income.

I plugged in my street. My census tract is about 14% higher than the highest statewide average income...so we are solidly middle class. No more; no less.

Extremely inaccurate in our case. Not accurate for neighborhood, village or county.

This is one of the poorest counties in NY state, if not THE porest. actual average is about 30..if that according to this average is 40.

Spam??? Think maybe the OP is trying to promote their map website?

I think it was interesting, thanks, "janprojects," for posting it! It was fairly accurate for our area....

We live in a very rural area. I looked it up, it was right on the mark.

You can get the same information from your County's Property Appraiser's GIS Department house by house, and the Tax Assessor's office, which all this info probably came from.

It's a good app to save time and research.

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Originally posted by Kathy_in_wlsv:
Extremely inaccurate in our case. Not accurate for neighborhood, village or county.

This is one of the poorest counties in NY state, if not THE porest. actual average is about 30..if that according to this average is 40.

This is by Census Tract, not by county.

it is STILL inaccurate.. for my census tract, my sister's tract, and the tracts of several other people who looked into it.

In each case they over estimated the incomes.

This information is taken from the Rural Justice Institute at Alfred University.

http://rji.alfred.edu/GIS-Maps-Multi-Tracts.asp

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kathy_in_wlsv,

Interesting...... wonder where they get their data...

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Originally posted by DebiinFL:
Interesting...... wonder where they get their data...

DebiinFl, I think it is directly from the 2010 U.S. Census ~ you know, the question that asks specifically: "What is the total annual household income for all residents at this address?"

I looked at my home town and it was, in generalities, accurate (as I remember).

Mine was accurate. Thanks for posting it, janprojects.

Some was & some wasn't in my county. Not nearly as accurate as other sources!