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Old 01-18-2013, 04:25 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Everybody with money wants to live near an asphalt plant.
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Old 01-18-2013, 04:41 PM
 
Location: North Oakland
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For me, the biggest surprise is that there are enough zip codes that the poorest on a list of 50 is Moon/Corapolis.
+1. Who knew Pittsburgh had 50 zip codes?
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Old 01-18-2013, 04:43 PM
 
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With only 137 addressess, it's fairly easy to be high end. Read the stats. No a true picture imho.
Median income in 15086 is $104K, and average real estate asking price is $988K. The industrial park itself has to be influencing the calculations in some way.

Zip Code 15086 Warrendale, PA
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Old 01-18-2013, 04:50 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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The 2010 population says 300 people. There is no mail delivery there, you have to pick it up. Very small area which skews the stats, much like Glenshaw.
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Old 01-18-2013, 05:06 PM
 
Location: Glenshaw, PA
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There is mail delivery in Glenshaw (15116). And approx. 15,000 residents. Nothing at all like the zip code mentioned before.
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Old 01-18-2013, 05:09 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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There is mail delivery in Glenshaw (15116). And approx. 15,000 residents. Nothing at all like the zip code mentioned before.

The Glenshaw area within Shaler Twp has a pretty high concentration of the wealthy, more so than Shaler overall. In addition, it pulls from Indiana, which really ups the ante.

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&s...w=1280&bih=571
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Old 01-18-2013, 05:18 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh area
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Median income in 15086 is $104K, and average real estate asking price is $988K. The industrial park itself has to be influencing the calculations in some way.

Zip Code 15086 Warrendale, PA
Is that the zip for the post office that burned down several years ago? Guessing it must be. The PO was not replaced. I dunno what happens with the mail now. I was looking up something with an address on Warrendale-Bayne in Marshall recently, and it was telling me the zip was 15090 Wexford, so I'm not really sure what is up these days. It could be a lot of what should have been Warrendale-area delivery was shifted to Wexford PO. The only PO that's in "Warrendale"/Marshall still is the one in the Bulk Mail Center in Thorn Hill. I dunno if they run a route out of that, I suspect not, but they did used to have boxes in there I think, and a counter.

Some of those houses near Thorn Hill still have (or did as of a few years ago) a MARS zip code. Most or all of Cranberry used to be Mars zip code until about 15 years ago or thereabouts. They petitioned for and got their own as I understand it. Zip code lines know no bounds by county. The houses on the very west end of Marshall in some spots get a BADEN zip code. Yeah, 15005, same as me. On my same mail route in fact, I'm sure. Neither Mars nor Baden are in the same county as Marshall.

It's kinda weird doing this division by zip code, especially when they're clearly just doing it on paper without regard to knowing what the zip codes encompass. In general, though, the top numbers don't surprise me, and it doesn't surprise me that when you count out to 50 you get a whole bunch of zip numbers you've never heard of that have almost the same income level.
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Old 01-18-2013, 05:36 PM
 
Location: Glenshaw, PA
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The Glenshaw area within Shaler Twp has a pretty high concentration of the wealthy, more so than Shaler overall. In addition, it pulls from Indiana, which really ups the ante.

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&s...w=1280&bih=571
That's completely true. But that really isn't skewing the stats, unless you meant the 15116 area was skewing all of Shaler Township. There aren't 137 addresses skewing the stats for the odd area 15116 encompasses.
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Old 01-18-2013, 06:01 PM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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Given that Pittsburgh-area post offices tend to cover a very large area, it makes sense that the metro doesn't appear all that wealthy on a zip code-by-zip code basis.
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Old 01-18-2013, 06:02 PM
 
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For me, the biggest surprise is that there are enough zip codes that the poorest on a list of 50 is Moon/Corapolis.
Moon would have been higher, but Coraopolis pulls it down a bit.
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