Much ado is made about the income disparity in Kansas City between the neighborhoods west of Troost Ave. and those east. I entered 6300 Troost, Kansas City MO and the result is striking.
Just as I suspected–my house is essentially at a corner of three zones, one low to mid $40k and one in the high teens. My neighborhood is an odd mix of beautiful, well maintained homes from the 1800’s and shitty rentals full of trash.
Assuming it’s at all accurate. I’m reminded of those websites that tell you where the sex offenders are in your neighborhood that contain nothing but false info.
Cool beans… There are no ads on that site…Yet. What they’re doing is trying to increase their traffic by spamming message boards which will help them sell ads down the line. Spammers spam for a reason. If 99% of people ignore them, they still only need to find a few Sicks Ates out there willing to buy-in to whatever they’re pushing. It’s just a numbers game.
They’ve figured out a way to put important and/or interestinng data out there in a format that’s easy to use and understand. Good for them. I’m happy to help.
Not super accurate. Looked up my town, and it’s got the whole town uniformly darkest green, including the trailer park. I don’t think the average income there is $106K or above.
I don’t care if it’s a spam post, because the website linked to is interesting.
Anyway, if you click on a “neighborhood,” what you really are looking at is a census tract. Assuming the mapping of the tracts is accurate, what the data shows me is that for my little chunk of the world, the census tracts DO NOT correspond very well to actual neighborhoods. Not that they need to, I know. I can’t see an accurate average for MY actual neighborhood, or for some of the VERY expensive developments nearby, because it’s in the same census tract as a large retirement community, which I’m guessing is bringing the average way down.
