Census Bureau Data: Richest Counties Get Richer, Poorest Get Poorer

Washington area is wealthiest and most educated region in the nation, census data show
The Washington area's affluence and education levels make it the wealthiest and most educated region in the nation, according to Census data released Tuesday that reflect five years of relative prosperity compared with the rest of the country. This Story More D.C. area commuters leaving the driving to others, Census data show Commuters data Poll: Have you changed your commute? Washington area is wealthiest and most educated region in the nation, Census data show U.S. Census Bureau: American C...

More D.C. area commuters leaving the driving to others, census data show
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Census Bureau: 1 in 3 US Somali Muslims Live in Minnesota
The land of Al Franken slides into the Turd World sewer… Minneapolis (Associated Press) - Nearly one in three people with Somali ancestry in the United States now live in the Minnesota, which has the largest concentration in the country, according to government data released Tuesday. The latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey found about 25,000 of the 85,700 Somalis in the U.S. live in Minnesota. Ohio, Washington and California also had large p...

Census: Rich Areas Richer, Poor Get Poorer
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, at least judging by the most extreme neighborhoods for median household income in the latest Census Bureau data. More Video ...

Black segregation in US drops to lowest in century (AP)
WASHINGTON – America's neighborhoods took large strides toward racial integration in the last decade as blacks and whites chose to live near each other at the highest levels in a century. Still, segregation in many parts of the U.S. persisted, with Hispanics in particular turning away from whites. A broad range of 2009 Census data released Tuesday also found a mixed economic picture, with the Poverty rate swinging wildly among counties from 4 percent to more than 40 percent as the nation...

Schedule for Week of December 19th: Happy Holidays!
by CalculatedRisk on 12/18/2010 11:42:00 AM This is a holiday week (Merry Christmas!), but there will still be plenty of economic releases. There are two key housing reports: November existing Home Sales on Wednesday, and New Home Sales on Thursday. ----- Monday, Dec 20th ----- 8:30 AM ET: Chicago Fed National Activity Index (November). This is a composite index of other data. Morning: Moody's/REAL Commercial Property Price Index (CPPI) for October. ----- Tuesday, Dec 21st ----- 11:00 AM: Th...

Census Data Show Immigrants Making Path to Suburbs
WASHINGTON — Immigrants fanned out across the United States in the last decade, settling in greater numbers in small towns and suburbs rather than in the cities where they typically moved when they first came to this country, new Census data show. Following jobs to rural and suburban areas, in industries like construction and the food business, immigrant populations rose more than 60 percent in places where immigrants made up fewer than 5 percent of the population in 2000. In areas that h...

Americas 10 Poorest Counties in Appalachia, Deep South or on Indian Reservations
Friday, December 17, 2010 By Dan Joseph (CNSNews.com) - America’s 10 poorest counties, both in terms of the percentage of those living below the Poverty level and median household income, lie either on Indian Reservations, are in the Deep South or are found in the Coal Mining areas of eastern Kentucky.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Small Area Poverty and Income Estimates for 2009, the 10 U.S. counties with the highest percentages of their population living in Poverty are: 1. Z

American Community Survey Maps
The Census Bureau has released new county-level maps based on the 2005-2009 ACS 5-year estimates . All of the topics also have Census 2000 maps and data to determine statistical significance. ...

Census Bureau: Higher-than-Average Poverty Rates for Most Counties on U.S.-Mexico Border
Thursday, December 16, 2010 By Dan Joseph Border vehicle fence in New Mexico (El Paso district). (Photo courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol) (CNSNews.com) - U.S. counties that border Mexico have Poverty rates well above the national average and median income levels that are well below the national average. According to the Census Bureau’s Small Area Poverty and Income Estimates for 2009, the average percentage of those living below the Poverty level in the 23 counties that border...

How We Did It: Popular Retirement Destinations
Portfolio.com rated the attractiveness of 157 markets for Retirees based on six statistical indicators. Here are the details: Goal: The study’s objective was to identify the nation’s most popular Retirement areas. It gave the highest marks to communities where the population of seniors (65 or older) is already substantial and is growing rapidly. Markets: The study covered the 157 metropolitan and micropolitan areas where at least 40,000 residents are classified as seniors. They ranged from...

Considering Commuting For A New Job? Follow These Tips
Recently we asked people on Facebook: How long is your work commute? Some said 15 minutes one way while others reported up to 1 to 2 hours. And according to the latest American Community Survey by the U.S. Census, Americans spend on average between 15 and 35 minutes commuting to work each day. In an ideal world we would work closer to home, but for the right job opportunity, would you be willing to take on a longer commute? Be Budget conscious . For example, is there a job opening in New York Ci...

Looking at Income Class and Votes for Obama
In light of the Census Bureau’s release on Tuesday of data from the American Community Survey, a blogger from The Big Picture who writes under the pseudonym Invictus suggested we investigate how income may have affected the 2008 Presidential Election. Both Democrats and Republicans claim to be the champions of the middle-class and poor; who actually won their votes? With Invictus’s help, I put together the  scatterplot below. The horizontal axis shows median household income for...

American Segregation At An All-Time Low
This is interesting because it’s evidence that things really are changing and in a positive direction. It’s going to take a long time to heal the racial divide that was set forth at the founding of our nation and embedded shamefully in our very Constitution when it was first written. But maybe we’re on our way to the realization of the dream of One Nation Under God, Indivisible. This also has implications for Congressional re-districting in the future…should be interest...

Young, hip Seattle still very short on children
There's something missing from many Seattle neighborhoods: the sound of Children's laughter. Recent Census data indicate Seattle is continuing a decades-long trend of having the lowest concentration of children among all the major U.S. cities, except San Francisco. Less than 20 percent of all Seattle households included children younger than 18, compared with 34 percent nationally and 33 in Washington State. Seattle also has one of the nation's highest rates of married couples without children...

Census data shows were Brooklyn has been, but where is it headed?
The recent Census report shows what Brooklynites already know about their neighborhood's development over the last decade, that the city is getting whiter and more expensive. The borough has options going forward, which will be decided upon along class lines. The released data tracks the movement of black and latino populations from historically ethnic Williamsburg, Propect Heights, and Bushwick among others. This is the reversal of the notorious "white flight" of earlier decades during which af...

Lost in the White House
Over the past thirty years, there's been a savage increase in inequality in the United States. In September, new Census figures showed that the income gap between America's Richest and poorest was the widest on record: "The top-earning 20 percent of Americans - those making more than $100,000 each year - received 49.4 percent of all income generated in the U.S., compared with the 3.4 percent earned by those below the Poverty line [15 percent]." It's a manifestation of what Senator Bernie Sande...

Housing Starts and Vacant Units
by CalculatedRisk on 12/17/2010 01:36:00 PM Here is an update to a graph showing total Housing Starts and the percent vacant housing units (owner and rental) in the U.S. Over a year ago, I used this chart to argue that there would be no "V shaped" recovery, and that Housing Starts wouldn't rebound rapidly. See: Housing Starts and Vacant Units: No "V" Shaped Recovery. In that earlier post, I also argued that the Unemployment Rate would remain high throughout 2010. Hey, housing matters! Note: Ho...

Black segregation falls, but Latino and Asian separation up
California's relatively small and slow-growing black population is experiencing far less residential segregation that it did in years past, but its rapidly growing Latino and Asian American populations are experiencing more, a new nationwide study of housing patterns indicates. The study, "Racial and Ethnic Separation in the Neighborhoods: Progress at a Standstill," was written by John R. Logan of Brown University and Brian J. Stults of Florida State University, was based on data from decennia...

Family Report Shows Brokenness in U.S. Homes
Only 45 percent of American teenagers have spent their childhood with both parents legally married to one another, according to a recent report. The Family Research Council's "U.S. Index of Belonging and Rejection" also found that 55 percent of U.S. teenagers live in families where their biological parents have rejected each other. Read the entire report here . "We have undertaken this study because, bad though it may be, the out-of-wedlock Birth Rate is not the key measure of family intactne...

Serf And Turf
Don't like the way wealth is distributed? Then you can join congressional Democrats and grump about it, or you can get some wealth for yourself. Ahh, if only that were true. The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that real median household income in the United States in 2009 was $49,777, not statistically different from the 2008 median. The nation's official Poverty rate in 2009 was 14.3 percent, up from 13.2 percent in 2008 — the second statistically significant annual increase in the po...

Mass. expected to lose House seat through Census
BOSTON — Massachusetts is expected to lose a Congressional Seat when the new Census figures are released. The U.S. Census Bureau will release the results of its once-a-decade count at 11 a.m. Tuesday, and all signs are toward a population shift from the North to the South — and a shift in U.S. House seats along with it. Massachusetts currently has 10 House seats. If, as expected, it loses one on Tuesday, state lawmakers will have to decide how to get rid of one congressman. Populati...

Why the Census may be bad news for Missouri Democrats
WASHINGTON — The Census will make clear on Tuesday what has been speculated about in Missouri political circles for a while: The state could lose a Congressional Seat effective the 2012 Elections. Democrats could be most at risk. Going into the 2011 Congress, they will hold only three seats in the nine-member House delegation because the party just lost Rep. Ike Skelton's district in the November Midterm Elections. But they might have trouble keeping that many. It depends on how the Rep...

Latest Indicators: Jobless Claims Dip; Trade Gap Grows; Housing Starts Up
What is this? The number of people filing first-time claims for jobless benefits decreased by 3,000 last week, to 420,000, the Employment and Training Administration says. Bloomberg News says that signals "a labor market that is on the mend" in part because the slight decline was unexpected and in part because claims have now dipped in three of the past four weeks. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Economic Analysis says the nation's Deficit "on trade in goods and services" widened to $127.2 billion in t...

Mass. expected to lose House seat through Census
BOSTON — Massachusetts is expected to lose a Congressional Seat when the new Census figures are released. The U.S. Census Bureau will release the results of its once-a-decade count at 11 a.m. Tuesday, and all signs are toward a population shift from the North to the South — and a shift in U.S. House seats along with it. Massachusetts currently has 10 House seats. If, as expected, it loses one on Tuesday, state lawmakers will have to decide how to get rid of one congressman. Populati...