# INTERACTIVE MAP: Median income for every neighborhood in the U.S. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 2, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-median-income-for-every-neighborhood-in-the-u-s/645874 "2013-01-02T20:21:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-median-income-for-every-neighborhood-in-the-u-s/645874/41 "2013-01-03T15:13:14Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Here is a [page](http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer) from the New York Times website that provides detailed maps about household income, changes in income, race and ethnicity, home values and educational achievement. This data is from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data from 2005-2009. Interesting. I feel sorry for the people in the Mississippi river and on runways of MSP International. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-median-income-for-every-neighborhood-in-the-u-s/645874/42 "2013-01-03T15:51:11Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > Click once on the tract you want and a box pops up. Yeah, you have to click on it. I’m checking random places in the middle of nowhere, and they all have data when you click on it. If you’re not seeing data when you’ve clicked on a tract of land (and it doesn’t seem to matter where you click), then maybe it’s some browser-related issue. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-median-income-for-every-neighborhood-in-the-u-s/645874/43 "2013-01-03T16:18:33Z")
The lowest I’ve seen is in Gary, Indiana, at $11,786. I live in the south part of that same county. Kinda scary - it’s lower than Mississippi and Alabama, which are said to be the poorest states in the nation. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-median-income-for-every-neighborhood-in-the-u-s/645874/44 "2013-01-03T19:07:33Z")
> [@GreasyJack](#): > > The rich people in my town are invisible, since the census tract that has all the big mansions and such also has a university with dormitories full of penniless students. Lakewood in North Little Rock doesn’t indicate the filthy rich so in sos that live by the Lake. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ilikedata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/da6949/32.png) [@ilikedata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ilikedata)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-median-income-for-every-neighborhood-in-the-u-s/645874/45 "2013-01-03T21:06:02Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Here is a [page](http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer) from the New York Times website that provides detailed maps about household income, changes in income, race and ethnicity, home values and educational achievement. This data is from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data from 2005-2009. ooh, cool link Are there other super-detailed maps like this? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-median-income-for-every-neighborhood-in-the-u-s/645874/46 "2013-01-03T21:10:56Z")
> [@ilikedata](#): > > ooh, cool link > > Are there other super-detailed maps like this? Yeah, like falafal joints, or liquor stores that don’t card? ---
**Author:** ![ilikedata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/da6949/32.png) [@ilikedata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ilikedata)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-median-income-for-every-neighborhood-in-the-u-s/645874/47 "2013-01-04T14:48:04Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > The lowest I’ve seen is in Gary, Indiana, at $11,786. I live in the south part of that same county. > > Kinda scary - it’s lower than Mississippi and Alabama, which are said to be the poorest states in the nation. That must mean that the city is incredibly poor, relative to its surrounding areas and cities. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-median-income-for-every-neighborhood-in-the-u-s/645874/48 "2013-01-04T15:12:06Z")
> [@ilikedata](#): > > ooh, cool link > > Are there other super-detailed maps like this? [Here](http://www.census.gov/2010census/popmap/). It gets even more detailed with Census Block. There’s data out there about crime in each census tract too, easy to google if you want to see it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-median-income-for-every-neighborhood-in-the-u-s/645874.md?page=2)