Household incomes shrink while number living in poverty increases, census survey shows. (Wisconsin State Journal, 12/8/2011)
Excerpt: In the tony suburb of Maple Bluff on the north shore of Lake Mendota, median household income in 2010 landed at a very comfortable $151,875. Just a few miles east, in a North Side area of Madison near the airport, median income was just $28,542, with about 40 percent of residents living in poverty.
That's according to new census data released Thursday that confirms a trend toward decreased incomes and higher poverty in the last decade but also provides geographic definition to the trends, giving a broad spectrum of demographic information on a nearly neighborhood-by-neighborhood level.
The data show that Madison and Dane County continued to enjoy relative affluence with pockets of poverty interspersed, sometimes in close proximity to high-wealth areas, especially in the city of Madison.
Using the interactive feature.
My current census tract (South of University Avenue). (1986-present)
Middleton census tract north of University Avenue, which includes a significant number of multi-family dwellings: duplexes, apartments, condos.
My Oshkosh census tract. (1978-1986)
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