America's Wealth Is Staggeringly Concentrated In The Northeast Corridor
At the county level, America is a tremendously unequal place. The median household income in the poorest county (Wilcox County, Alabama) was $22,126 in 2012. In Falls Church, Virginia, where highly educated defense contractors and federal government workers cluster, the median income last year was $121,250, more than five times higher.
What's most startling, though, in new local income and poverty data released this week by the Census Bureau, is the way these opposing poles of poverty and wealth in America concentrate geographically. The Census map below shows median household income data from 2012 for every county in the country:
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ReplyDeleteI don't get how NJ is doing so well.
ReplyDeleteGay marriage is a common denominator.
ReplyDeleteAnnie, Quite a few major pharmaceutical companies in NJ-a few are Norvartis, Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Johnson & Johnson.
ReplyDeleteAlot of the light yellow areas in New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada are Native American reservations. They show up Blue on political maps.
ReplyDeleteNj like many states has a large population and that equals jobs and opportunity. The eastern shore has way fewer people and fewer jobs to support them. It's really not difficult to figure out. Tourism does not make an economy, and farming isn't a money maker. Soon once chicken from china gets here there will be nothing left on Delmarva.
ReplyDeletePerdue has plenty of operations in China FYI.
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