Post by sporklemotion on Jan 9, 2013 6:02:15 GMT -5
61K in my neighborhood, 43K just two blocks away. Statewide middle class is 59-72K.
I really had no idea what the income was before looking at this. I live in a semi-gentrified area with lots of rehabbed triple-deckers, so I think the income varies widely from house to house. I always sense that we're about "average" for our neighborhood, but our income is a bit higher than that median.
I was a little surprised that it dropped so dramatically within a couple of blocks of us. Of course, if you go the other way into the next town, the median goes up to 100K.
I'm shocked by mine, but my street/area is split between gigantic 100 year old houses that people are refurbishing and the ones that are still split into tons of apartments, so I shouldn't be.
I wish I could find this in list form. Other than a couple of the immediate surrounding areas, I can't find any areas that are higher than ours, even if I look all the way over to the DC suburbs. This is crazy to me. I guess it is a good thing for our property values?
Not sure where in DC (or DC area you are) but there's a $213,889 +/- $43,735 over in the neighborhood where AU is and a few of the Arlington and Fairfax ones are up over $190,000/$200,000. But I'm guessing that's close to the immediate surrounding area you were looking at. I was surprised to see the AU DC neighborhood that high, especially when the places right next to it drop by close to $100,000.
DC overall panned out as I was expecting. I live in the less wealthy area of NW, but am still far above the District median.
I wish I could find this in list form. Other than a couple of the immediate surrounding areas, I can't find any areas that are higher than ours, even if I look all the way over to the DC suburbs. This is crazy to me. I guess it is a good thing for our property values?
The neighborhood connecting to mine is a bit higher Not sure if that makes you feel better?
What I just learned is that my neighborhood is more recently gentrified than I had assumed, and that we are part of that gentrification. Ha. Median income is around 51k. That probably includes a lot of retirees though, and also a lot of single people who live with roommates. But you still couldn't buy an apartment for less than 400k or a house for less than 800k. (How do you buy a house for 800k on 51k a year?) Median income goes up to $150k one census track away one direction, and down to 28k the other way. I live in a weird area.
But you still couldn't buy an apartment for less than 400k or a house for less than 800k. (How do you buy a house for 800k on 51k a year?)
You don't. But maybe you bought it 30 years ago for $80,000. Prices have skyrocketed in gentrified areas. But not everyone paid the post-gentrification price.
It is really interseting becuase our neighborhoods are so small it seems. So my area (which is largely apartments) is $71,451.00 (+/- $6,385.00).
Across the street which is a good mix of apartments and houses is $83,322.00 (+/- $11,534.00).
At the end of the street? $112,563.00 (+/- $36,696.00).
Ha, I also looked up DH's dream neighborhood - Median household income: $190,781.00 (+/- $29,157.00) (which is like 10 minutes away). Maybe that makes you feel better cosmowife? ha ha
$48,155 which seems SUPER low. The grouping of blocks contains a large housing project though so I'm guessing thats dragging it down. My house and its sad sack landscaping makes me think we're one of the poorest on my street, and we make ~3x that.
$74,886.00 (+/- $16,724.00) on this block.
SCM, it's the renters/students. The majority of this city is rented out. You can't buy on that amount. And where you are is prime real estate with even a higher density of renters.
But you still couldn't buy an apartment for less than 400k or a house for less than 800k. (How do you buy a house for 800k on 51k a year?)
You don't. But maybe you bought it 30 years ago for $80,000. Prices have skyrocketed in gentrified areas. But not everyone paid the post-gentrification price.
I wish I could find this in list form. Other than a couple of the immediate surrounding areas, I can't find any areas that are higher than ours, even if I look all the way over to the DC suburbs. This is crazy to me. I guess it is a good thing for our property values?
Not sure where in DC (or DC area you are) but there's a $213,889 +/- $43,735 over in the neighborhood where AU is and a few of the Arlington and Fairfax ones are up over $190,000/$200,000. But I'm guessing that's close to the immediate surrounding area you were looking at. I was surprised to see the AU DC neighborhood that high, especially when the places right next to it drop by close to $100,000.
DC overall panned out as I was expecting. I live in the less wealthy area of NW, but am still far above the District median.
I looked up my ILs address in Fairfax County yesterday, and it is $216k. I can't remember the +/-.
Post by EmilieMadison on Jan 9, 2013 10:19:20 GMT -5
This is interesting! And seems very accurate. I find it fascinating that, in my particular neighborhood, the median income on one block is $30K or less, and literall one block over, the median income is $120K or more. ONE BLOCK.
Post by stingsharkruns on Jan 9, 2013 11:12:14 GMT -5
$58,432.00 (+/- $14,446.00).
I'm not understand the block by block.. My entire area is highlighted green. No matter where I click, it says the same numbers.
This is interesting, i would have thought the number would have been more since we live on the coast.. but it is largely made up of retirees/snowbirds.
For my current neighborhood, the median is $85,601 (+/- $5098). It's around where I thought it would be. It's definitely one of the nicer parts of the city and of the county overall.
For the neighborhood we are moving to it is $85,000 (+/- $20,000). That's a pretty big variance, but I sort of get it. The city we're moving, while it's just a couple miles away, has many fewer pockets of nice areas.
We are actually moving into a development that kind of literally has its own "rich block, poor block." I know it makes me sounds terrible, but it's true. On our side, the homes cost more and are in the preferred school district in the county. The homes also come with more upgrades as standard. On the other side, just across the dividing main street of the development, the houses are cheaper, there are fewer upgraded finishes, and it's in the bad school district.