Holy shit, Oakland is 27.5% with less than a ninth grade education. I knew it wasn’t the most economically hopping place in the world, but I never knew it was so bad.
Compared with neighboring zip codes, we’re lowest on median income ($34K) and highest on the length of residence – 85% have lived here for 5+ years. We also scored low on education. Median age is 44. Unemployment at 1%.
I compared my college town with my old zipcode from home. It showed more poverty in the college town, I wonder if students not making any money (like me) skewed it. Obviously, the education stats were the most glaring.
Well, that sure squished everything together. Meh, y’all can figure it out.
Now take a look at where I teach:
**Educational Achievement: **
(among people 25 years or older)
**Less than 9th grade: 30.4% ** :o
9th-12th grade (nongrad): 21.8%
High school graduate: 21.2%
Some college: 14%
Associate degree: 3.6%
High school or higher: 47.8%
Bachelors or higher: 9%
Graduate/Professional: 1.6%
Median Household Income: $41,621
Unemployment/Poverty
Unemployed 5.5%
**Below Poverty Line 18.2% **
Yeah, a bunch of wealthy white paper-shuffling fucks, willing to allow just enough Mexicans around to mow our lawns. Have I mentioned lately how much I love my town?
Lessee… 79% have an education level of high school or higher, 29% have bachelors or higher. Median income is $43k and change. 41% never married… huh, that seems high to me.
19% white, 73% black, 2% Asian. Average age is 40, and it is 45/55 in favor of the ladies.
In my neighborhood (pop 38,577):
70.5% white
35.8% age 20-29 / 23.6% age 30-39
59.4% bachelors degree or higher
56.1% never married
61.0% work in management or professional jobs / 25.9% in sales or office jobs
28.3% make over $100,000 (median $62,550)
so basically everyone in town is more or less just like me
I totally guessed wrong at what this thread would be about. I thought it would be tongue-in-cheek profiling digs at one’s neighbors along the lines of “people from my neighborhood look like they should be pulled out of the airport line for random security checks, but luckily they all travel exclusively by pick-up truck”. Or something.
If that had been the case, I would said: When you come to my neighborhood, you’ll be tempted to run over the kids playing in the middle of our busy streets at rush hour… but you’d be wise not to since all of the parents appear to be in the Russian mafia.