How different are you from the "average" person of your demographic?

I think that puts us in a different demographic than the rest of these…people

Cool website. According to it, I’m whiter, older, better paid, give more to charity, have a bigger family, and live in a larger and more expensive house than most folks in my zip code.

White male, nearly 40.

Shorter, poorer, non-christian. under-employed. Not-married.

I make so much less money than other people in my demographic that it’s kind of funny, actually.

My demographic is, I think, 29-35 year old male.

I work weirder hours
I have more kids (3)
I read more
I am not particularly religious
I am not particularly into sports

My household makes more than the average in our town. Hopefully we can capitalize on that.

I’m not entirely sure what demographic to use the typical Alaskan one, or the career woman one.

The Alaskan one,

I HATE fishing/hunting/snowmachining (and it’s practically a state law that you worship one, if not all three of those). And other than hikes locally on the bike trails, I’m not really all that much into the outdoorsy life, except for my job in the environmental industry which has me out sampling groundwater, potentially contaminated soil, that sort of thing.

Also, unlike most Anchoragites, I take the bus most of the time, currently my truck engine is being rebuilt (long time that, I’ve been saving up and getting it done little by little), but even when it was on the road, I took the bus most of the time. Anchorage is not a public transportation friendly or walker friendly town, so that’s a bit unusual for my demographic

I am like an Alaskan in the way that I am fiercely independent, and like most Alaskan girls who Kick Ass, I am fairly competent at construction work, some car repair etc.

As to the career woman thing. I’m 49, a white woman and a grandma. I have two jobs, both of which are wonderfully interesting and mostly fun, and they pay okay too (LORD did I pay my dues to get here though!!!).

One is as an environmental tech/scientist and the other is as a PE instructor at a local university, teaching dance and aqua aerobics. The PE job pays well, but it’s a blast I love it and would do it for free if need be (and have at other venues in Anchortown).

The non-typical part? Unlike most of my contemporaries, I’m not married. And even though I did the dance lessons/pee wee hockey/T-ball thing with my kids, I definitely don’t fall into the whole soccer mom image. No fake nails, big hair, matchy-matchy expensive outfits or any of that nonsense.

Also, I absolutely refused to drive anything but a nice sedan (nice older caddies and buicks that sort of thing), and wouldn’t be caught dead in a minivan!

Pretty boring differences, but it’s 2:30am and my brain is about off for the night!

:smiley:

Ummmmmmmmmmm…there may be more old people here than average, but little else of that makes any sense whatsoever! Still, I suppose the search result is lumping us in Felixstowe :wink:
Anyway, I’m a white male, southern England by birth and residence, two degrees, teaching music.

I differ from my peers in that I’m not in a relationship, certainly not planning on marriage, and not trying to buy or living in my own house. In many other ways I’m fairly typical - wouldn’t mind going out for a pint or a meal, happy to go on short holidays any time of year, do too much of my shopping at Tesco.

According to Jennyrosity’s website, I am the complete opposite of the average woman in my area.

“Incomes are well below average with nearly a third of families earning less than £10,000. Unemployment is higher than average.” - I have a fair income and have never been unemployed, my job also reflects my educational standard.

“Households tend to be families with a number of school age children.” - Unmarried, no kids, living in a private-owned house rather than council property or housing association.

“the payment facilities offered by catalogue shopping are an attraction” - Not to me, thank you. I do my shopping in real stores or on t’interweb.

“People with a car will own a low value second hand vehicle.” - Partially true, the car is an ex-demonstrator from the local dealer, bought six months after it’s initial registration as a cash purchase and only had 252 miles on the clock. It’s now five years old.

“Shopping may be done in Morrisons or Kwik Save” - I give in here, we shop at Morrisons but only because it’s the nearest local supermarket besides Asda and the less said about Asda the better.

“holidays may well be to a caravan park or a camp site.” - Camping is for festivals, right? Recent holidays include central Europe, Russia, Vegas…

“The newspaper is generally a tabloid.” - Heaven forbid! I read my news online!

Demographic: average white suburbanite slob

Likes:[ul][]Football[]Porno[]Books about war[/ul]Accommodation:[ul][]Average house[]Nice hardwood floor[/ul]Material/familial priorities:[ul][]Wife[]Job[]Kids[]Car[]Cuban cigar[/ul]Behavioural quirks[ul][]Drives really slow in the ultra-fast lane[]Uses public toilets and pisses on the seat[]Walks around in the sumertime saying “how about this heat?”[]Sometimes parks in handicapped spaces[/ul]Conclusion: a bit of an asshole.

Pretty damned different! I may be nothing special but I sure am unique.

I am a 41 yo partnered gay man. As someone willing to report this data to the Census Bureau that alone puts me in the one-tenth of a percentile category according to City-Data (for my zip).

I live in a finished, metal pole-barn (picture something like this but a lot bigger with plenty of windows, no roll-up doors, and un-painted metal). We finished the building ourselves (all interior walls, loft, plumbing, fixtures, electrical, electric service --everything).

I have a degree in studio art, and a degree in CIS. Having a BS puts me in the same set as 20.4% of other Alabamians according to this. I can’t find a cite right now for rural Alabama.

I am in plenty of other subsets of human descriptors which aren’t unique by themselves but I am probably the only person within the intersection of all these descriptors —play guitar, oil paint, use construction tools, have completed college calculus and physics courses, have 7 siblings, own a vehicle, own 7 guitars, jog daily, atheist-----GOD :smiley: , this is harder than I thought -----coming up with a list of common attributes such that you are the only one in the set. I’m sure that I am not the only person in the list as it currently stands.

Unlike the fierce independents here, I am probably screamingly typical for my demographic! I may look a little younger than I am, which is 44.

I am a full-time working mother, have three children and drive a mini-van. I live in the suburbs. I have a college degree, am married, enjoy cooking and gardening.

I may be a little different in that I’m a pro-life Democrat … but I’m also Catholic, which explains it. :slight_smile:
I have a sneaking suspicion that I’m boring.

I deny it categorically.

Mmmm. Reminds me of another thread, but my general demographic would be:
46, male, college grad, white collar, large metropolitan area

My similarities:
California liberal
TV always on.
Average-ish height, weight.
Drive a car 25 minutes to work.
Seem healthy; exercise not all that much.

My probable differences:
Never been married.
800 FICO / $0 debt
Don’t watch sports; don’t drink
Haven’t had sex since before the towers fell (like you didn’t figure that out by now?)

What’s “800 FICO”?

In the U.S., your FICO score is your credit score – the number that lenders use to determine your creditworthiness and what kind of interest rate you can get. The range is from 300 to 850, with most people clocking in between 650 and 799 (per Wikipedia). A score of 800 is excellent.

ETA: Any score above 700 is considered very good.

I see - thanks!

White male, 50s.

Happily married with 2.2 kids. That’s rare these days. (counting dogs as .1 kid each)
Income and house price both in second highest group for my town.
Oddly enough, computer specialists and engineers are the two biggest employment categories, so I’m right in the mainstream there. Better educated than average for the country, but over 13% of people in my town have graduate or professional degrees, so I’m not that far off.

I watch less TV and read more books than average. I like sports less. Older car than average. From what I’ve read, far more in retirement savings than average. Jewish and then atheist , so that is minority from the country as a whole. Not fat, so a bit out of the ordinary there. And my bad cholesterol level is the lowest my doctor has ever seen without the aid of drugs.

I live in a mostly white (77%) town and am white

Median household income is about 35,000 around here, we make more than that

I make slightly less than the average male, my wife makes dramatically more than the average female

20% of adults have Bach degrees in town; I have a graduate degree

The town is very religious, predominantly Baptist. I am not at all religious

Many people that live here always have. We moved here.

Major employers in the area are meat packing, the school district, and weapons (Bell helicopter, Pantex). I am employed in higher ed.

The area is extremely conservative. I am not conservative at all.

How nice! You made my day!

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Behavioural quirks[ul][li]Drives really slow in the ultra-fast lane[]Uses public toilets and pisses on the seat[]Walks around in the sumertime saying “how about this heat?”[*]Sometimes parks in handicapped spaces[/ul]Conclusion: a bit of an asshole.[/li][/QUOTE]

Too right. And I always thought I’d buy you a pint at some point. Too bad.

:stuck_out_tongue:

(But seriously, get out of the fucking fast lane!)