Rich blocks, poor blocks

[cjeanette]

$124,375.00 We are bringing down that average for our area. Go us.

It is calling our statewide middle class range 42-50k. Is this household as well? If so we are living large.

[agnes]

Much higher than I thought. The median HHI is just over 100k. My old neighborhood, about a mile away, is only 70k. Which seems about right.

[ijack]

$132,668. we're right on track. it's actually lower than I thought.

[Muddled]

Median household income: $50,550.00 (+/- $11,307.00).
Statewide middle class range: $49,000 to $62,000.

This is lower than I thought. I know how much I pay in rent.


eta-Actually, there is a project nearby, which would explain the numbers. Also, add in that my LL asked us to pay in cash (which we refused) and we might have the answer.

[Deleted]

The median is $129K. I think that is much lower than what it is really is. We are probably the poorest kids on the block.

[hski2349]

This is really cool. The statewide middle class for my state is around 60,000. Our neighborhood is on the highest range. We are are also bring down that average.

[Deleted]

$151,927.00 (+/- $34,619.00).

About what I would expect. Most of what I'm seeing as our census tract would be higher than that (based on what rents/mortgages are and the incomes you'd need to qualify for those units), but there's a dorm in it that I think would drag things down? Also, we probably have a lot more 1 person households than most places.

[kadams767]

It says mine is about $45k, which is under the lower limit for the state middle class. I am somewhat surprised by that. I live in a pretty poor city, but there are some affluent pockets in my census tract. I would think that the people buying $1m homes would be pulling up the average.

[simpsongal]

$147K +/- $16K
Seems about right for our neighborhood.

[limey]

In my hometown, my block was 49.1k. The last time we lived there, I made 80+ alone.

In my current neighborhood, 113.5. I was actually thinking it was going to be a lot higher.

[stever]

$82,000, which is lower than I thought it would have been. We're signifigantly above that and I assumed we were more average for our town.

[h]

$145K (+/- $24K)

[jigsy]

Median is $87K here...surprises me that it isn't higher...I'm still too poor to live here, lol

[Deleted]

I live right on the border of 2 neighborhoods....

One side is: Median household income: $43,347.00 (+/- $5,332.00).
The other side is: Median household income: $122,000.00 (+/- $18,960.00).

Quite the economic divide...LOL!

Really the "poor" side has a lot of apartments, condos, young people & is considered the "gay" neighborhood. The other side is the wealthy neighborhood full of families & no apartments/condos. I live on the poor side of the street. Good for us though because literally across the street my house would have been $700K+ instead of less than $400K. Yeah for being MM (not that we had a choice). :0)

[makingithappen]

Our statewide is 35-42, but our neighborhood is 86k. we are about the middle neighborhood in our city, and our HH is between the state and neighborhhod average.

That's a pretty neat site.

ETA: the city we are a suburb of has ranges of 18k median to 105k

[phunluvin82]

$54,671 for my neighborhood, so we are above. I would have guessed higher b/c it's one of the more desired areas of the city...however...go 4 blocks north and it drops to $18,393.

When we have people stay with us, we are always telling them all the tourist stuff/areas they can walk to, but we are always like, "Don't walk *that* way though!"

[jenjen]

$54k for my side of the street, $60k for the north side of the street. I'm surprised its that low considering the homes nearby but we do have a lot of older retired people on our road. In our tract, there are some smaller, less nice homes. Statewide middle class range $42-50. We are far above that.

[SJ]

Our block's median household income: $54,327.00 (+/- $20,342.00)

That is less than I thought it would be, but we live in a condo building vs. a SFH.

The block where I grew up is $71,845.00 which is also less than I thought it would be.

[puppyluv]

$52k (+/- $17k) I would have thought it would be higher than that but i think our area is skewed lower by a large number of college students.

[mrssavy42112]

Bloomfield, NJ
Median household income: $58,203.00 (+/- $11,377.00).
Statewide middle class range: $62,000 to $78,000.

We bring in more than that, closer to the state range.

Interesting, if I click on the NEXT BLOCK...

Glen Ridge, NJ
Median household income: $160,511.00 (+/- $11,073.00).
Statewide middle class range: $62,000 to $78,000.

Not surprised.

[Deleted]

Jan 8, 2013 16:38:25 GMT -5 @esquirefish said:

With a middle class range of 49-62K. Given the rent prices around here, this seems ridiculously low.

That is the middle class range for the entire state of New York.

[catbus]

$71,850. Our HHI is ~50% higher than that.
I'm a little bit surprised, because the typical house is around $350,000, but I suppose there are several apartment buildings here. And, actually, a lot of older people on fixed incomes.

[kangaroo11]

$111k in my neighborhood. I thought it would be lower, considering how many of our neighbors are retired. I guess we haven't met enough of the rich folks!

[Deleted]

$104,750.00. I live in a townhouse with a lot of retirees.

Down the street with single family homes is $135K and change.

[mrssavy42112]

WOW, this site is fascinating. Now I'm looking up the address of my parents, my job...everything I can think of! There are some huge differences when you click from one block to the next. Yikes

[raangoli]

$65,642.00 (+/- $11,014.00)

It's also interesting to see for the areas we'd like to move to someday.

[Deleted]

I clicked on a block in Millburn NJ-- $218K.

[rosetyler]

Our current median is $68k. Our previous neighborhood was $86k. The previous one I would have thought higher, as it included a lot of high end homes, so someone was bringing that number down. Both numbers seem really low for HHI?

[Deleted]

Old house-$56,929.00 (+/- $5,931.00).
Current apartment-$47,355.00 (+/- $4,786.00).
New house (moving in 3/13)-$91,010.00 (+/- $10,497.00).

This seems fitting. The area where the old house is located has a lot of old families and many are retired. The apartment is in an area of mostly apartments in a suburban area. Generally, people around here that have more money buy a SFH because they are not too steeply priced. New house is in a nicer, newer area with better schools and infrastructure.

[cjeanette]

I have a co-worker who always makes comments about the city I live in and how her's is nicer..yadda yadda. Hers is 73k. Boo-yah!