Income levels in your neighborhood - Visualized!

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The folks at Rich Blocks Poor Blocks certainly know how to do it right.  They took the data from the 2006-2010 U.S. Census Community Survey, mashed it up w/ a bit of Google Maps, and Bob's your uncle, you've got a spectacularly cool way of knowing more about the income levels in the neighborhood that you live in.  A couple of things leap out immediately
  • Its fascinating to see trends - and stratification - in the neighborhoods.  NY city (above) vs. D.C. below is a brilliant example
  • It doesn't matter how wing-nutty people get, there is no way that "middle class" is $400,000. Even Suffolk County in NY (which is pretty ritzy) gets to - at most - $110, 000 (its actually $92K +/- $26K).  And the statewide middle-class range in NY is between $49,000 and $62,000.
By the way, as you can tell from the above, the variability in the ranges is quite high - but it still gets the point across, and it is fascinating to look at the trends...

(The images here are just that - images.  Go the the original for the mashup!)

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