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Apples and oranges.
Our City of Sammamish WA shows on the U.S. Census Bureau site as Median Household $174,003 and per capita $70.377. The difference is that median household includes all working family members, parents, kids working at McDonalds, or adult kids coming back home. There are an equal number of households making more than that, and less than that.
Per capita is the total income of all households in the city divided by the number of residents, so that would include all people and children working or not.
Our City of Sammamish WA shows on the U.S. Census Bureau site as Median Household $174,003 and per capita $70.377. The difference is that median household includes all working family members, parents, kids working at McDonalds, or adult kids coming back home. There are an equal number of households making more than that, and less than that.
Per capita is the total income of all households in the city divided by the number of residents, so that would include all people and children working or not.
That was the point. Multiple earners. I never COMPARED stats (median to per capita), it took the wizards here to do that. I used one stat from one source as posted on one site and didn't even bother to care if it was Census data or TV guide. I guess no one likes it. Mores the pity. Back to the hockey game.
Looked this up for something else but realized, does this mean it now takes three incomes to make a "household" around here? Remember when we got mad that both parents had to work. Now all THREE parents have to work. Wait, huh?!
The stat I posted simply says it now takes 3 "incomes" to make a Levittown "household." Used to take 1, then 2, now 3.
You are just wrong. You attempted to make a sociological critique of Levittown households using data you didn't understand. Time to move on.
You are just wrong. You attempted to make a sociological critique of Levittown households using data you didn't understand. Time to move on.
I live here and know it intimately. Once more for the cheap seats (third time actually). "I don't know it for a fact, I just know it's true." Median income is data. Personal income is data. Census data is data. Like it or lump it. Or go crazy to disprove a jokey anecdotal swipe. Have a party. Ahh, sociological, lets talk LICD humorlessness. We have that in abundance. Visit any Broke30 thread for that. It was an economic critique, not sociological. I can give you a few "sociological "reasons why people are living 7 to a house here, but they start with economic reasons most often. Mostly it was facetious. Of course, fun sucked out fast on here.
Levittown is getting largely priced out to L-towners (especially with the new assessments and tax blow). Ipso facto. Thus the INCREASE in per-household earners and illegal rentals. I made it up. If it's wrong, whoop dee doo. Posting misinfo on LICD forum? Oh the horror! Funny how the census data supports it, however superficially or too weakly for the LICD intelligencia. This is why this place never improves. Arguing over the color of shiite. I live here. I know exactly what is happening in my town.
Last edited by monstermagnet; 12-18-2021 at 08:22 AM..
No it does not. Your quoted numbers are sourced from census.gov that surveys the population and includes ALL incomes for members of a household 15 years an older, the incomes are not summed they are averaged within the household and then a median determined from the set of all households surveyed. It's pretty much a nonsensical computation.
The financial portion of the census was removed a long time ago .
Now it is just a random sampling done by the acs ..it does not include everyone anymore..it is only all in the household surveyed ….
Heck i couldn’t even take a random sampling in the high rise we live in and draw a conclusion for all here
That was the point. Multiple earners. I never COMPARED stats (median to per capita), it took the wizards here to do that. I used one stat from one source as posted on one site and didn't even bother to care if it was Census data or TV guide. I guess no one likes it. Mores the pity. Back to the hockey game.
You made an argument about three earners. A median income three times the per capita income does not mean the average household has three earners.
Last edited by monstermagnet; 12-18-2021 at 11:32 PM..
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