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Zip code fun

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Via Bean, here’s a fun little tool that gives you economic and demographic information for your zip code, and compares it to surrounding zip codes.

One huge caveat: this is based on 2000 census data. And things have changed a lot in the past 7 years. My neighborhood, for example, into which I moved just over 6 years ago, has gentrified quite a bit just since I’ve been here. So I’m pretty skeptical that the median income figures and the percentage of the households under the poverty line are the same. OTOH, there are still a ton of immigrants, many of them low-income, so I don’t know. Certainly, the figures make sense relative to, say, Park Slope (11215).

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  3. We live in one zip code, but my sons go to an elementary school in another, more affluent zip code (random districting oddity). We are the only neighborhood from this zip code that goes there, and sure enough our median income is much lower. But one thing that was interesting–our rate of bachelor degrees was higher. Interesting.

    Fun little web thingy. Thanks!

  4. I’ve just discovered that I, apparently, live in the poorest zip code in my state. Which had never actually occurred to me, I think I’d rather imagined that just about everywhere was at about this level around here. Which may explain why I was so shocked to find out that my state is, statistically, very rich, apparently.

    I’m not sure what this says about me.

  6. Hmm. I kinda wish they’d broken down the ethnic categories a little more. Yes, technically, most of my neighborhood is “white” if you’re looking purely at racial categories, but we have a huge population of immigrants from Armenia, so someone coming in from, say, the Midwest would be trying to figure out where all the other WASPs were and why no one was speaking English.

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