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[magic_gambit]

I found this via a post in PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread. It's an interactive map that shows you how wealthy or poor your every community in America is.

I think Detonate's post says it better than I do:

http://www.richblockspoorblocks.com/

This is pretty interesting. You put in the city and state and the site will show you a map that shows the average household income of the area, compared to the state average. You can click each area to get an exact figure.

Here's Detroit

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Charlotte, NC

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My personal fav is San Fran. You can see the, uh... segregation (is that the right word) by income in the metro area:


What's everyone else's neighborhoods/cities like?

[Jervill]

I live in a college town, so the income displayed is much lower than the would be expected or shown due to many people living off either student loans or their parents.

It's also interesting how in some cities how the gentrified areas show high incomes right next to the other areas that haven't experienced that (see: Above, my Minneapolis-St. Paul map in the other thread, even Detroit).

[Darvi]

Pretty bland, apparently.

[magic_gambit]

I live in a college town, so the income displayed is much lower than the would be expected

Hmm, though I wonder if that really would be what to expect.

I mean, it makes sense to me that a college kid lives on less than $15-20k/year.

[Scoops Novel]

Is this only for America? If there's a UK version, gimme.

[Frumple]

Heh. Have a gander at north florida

Showed nothing I wasn't expecting, though. Rural poverty agogo~

[Bdthemag]

Yeah, I also live in a college town so the area around the university is yellow. While immediately outside of that general area is green.

[Heron TSG]

My hometown is completely dark red, and the county as a whole is close to that. Seattle and the I5 corridor are mainly green. How about that.

[Flying Dice]

My neighborhood in my home city is mid-range, right along the border between the part of town that's full of mansions and one of the many parts full of rows of shotgun houses. My uni's town is highly amusing; it's quartered by a pair of highways and is yellow/green in the three quarters that don't have dorms, while the one that does is deep red.

[dei]

I live in one of the ghettos of a college town in California known for partying and artistic endeavors. It's all dark red, but then again my income is fifty percent below the poverty line. At least I get $12 a month extra starting next year.

[Lectorog]

My neighborhood is green. I can't distinguish between the various shades of green on the map, but I know it's green. So, good. Them suburbs.
On another note I do not live where I thought I do. I was off by several miles.

[varnish]

Since you so thoughtfully provided the detroit area map, I didn't even have to look for the neighborhood I grew up in. It's yellow, which seems about right. Lower-middle class first ring suburbs, hey.

[i2amroy]

I find it kind of funny that my entire city is light yellow/green with the exception of the college itself, which is a very dark shade of red. Basically the rule there appears to be that the farther away from the college you get the better your income is.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

All of Boone is dark red. That's what you get when you're a small college town.

[magic_gambit]

Miami and Detroit look really similar