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Seems they're concentrated in Washington DC primarily, with New York, San Francisco, Boston and Seattle taking the rear. The North Slope of alaska, however, sh
by nirvana 15y ago
Seems they're concentrated in Washington DC primarily, with New York, San Francisco, Boston and Seattle taking the rear.
The North Slope of alaska, however, shows an error here. The cost of living in Barrow is really very high... much higher than, say, Adams County, Washington. So, I suspect someone making the median income in Adams County is probably doing better than someone making the median in Barrow, in terms of take home pay....
Though, interestingly, those oil workers will be taxed on their income, not accounting for their expenses, and thus are marginally poorer as a result.
Also, according to the standards of this map, I'm the %1. This is good to know, because previously, I'd felt a little sheepish when I made that claim.
- seldo 15y agoIt seems like having the center of political power inhabited by the 1% explains why the concerns of the 99% are so easily dismissed by national politicans.
- strait 15y agoKeep it up, Hari.
- seldo 15y agoHeh. So few people get the reference...
- InclinedPlane 15y agoI think you might have cause and effect backwards.
- guelo 15y agoWhat are the standards for this map? It seems it is the 1% richest counties by median (household?) income. So I don't think you can qualify yourself as 1% based on this, all you could say is you live in a rich county.
- _delirium 15y agoYeah, this is measuring something quite different: the areas where the average person is the wealthiest, rather than where the much-wealthier-than-average people live (though there is probably a correlation). The cutoff for being in the top 1% of household incomes is $380k or so. It would be interesting to see the distribution of where such people live. This map isn't useless, but I think the title is highly misleading.
- Retric 15y agoLooks like median household income, what's most interesting is when you look at the bottom 0-10% bracket they are mostly in red states except for West Virginia.