i just kind of enjoy statistics in general and was forwarded a link to www.zipskinny.com. It's kind of interesting. anyway, here is a little comparison
-ryan
General Information:
ZIP 46733 84403
Population: 19,046 34,976
Density*: 110.8 961.8
Housing Units: 7,642 13,071
Land Area (sq. mi.): 171.9 36.4
Water Area (sq. mi.): 0.3 0.0
* People per square land mile
Educational Achievement:
ZIP 46733 84403
<9th grade: 3.9% 4.7%
9-12th: 10.2% 8.8%
H.S. grad: 48.0% 21.3%
Some coll.: 19.7% 27.3%
2 yr deg.: 7.2% 7.4%
4 yr deg.: 6.4% 19.9%
Grad/prof: 4.7% 10.5%
H.S.+: 86.0% 86.5%
4 yr+: 11.1% 30.4%
Marital Status:
ZIP 46733 84403
Never married: 22.3% 25.9%
Married: 59.3% 57.8%
Separated: 1.1% 1.5%
Widowed: 7.8% 5.3%
Divorced: 9.6% 9.6%
Stability/Newcomer Appeal:
ZIP 46733 84403
Same home 5+ yrs: 63.1% 48.5%
Household Income:
ZIP 46733 84403
<$10,000: 5.9% 7.6%
$10,000-$14,999: 5.9% 5.5%
$15,000-$24,999: 13.8% 12.4%
$25,000-$34,999: 14.3% 13.5%
$35,000-$49,999: 20.3% 19.2%
$50,000-$74,999: 21.9% 19.5%
$75,000-$99,999: 11.4% 8.8%
$100,000-$149,999: 4.6% 7.8%
$150,000-$199,999: 1.2% 2.8%
$200,000+: 0.6% 3.1%
Median: $41,829 $43,067
Occupation:
ZIP 46733 84403
Mgt./Prof.: 22.5% 36.3%
Service: 14.9% 13.9%
Sales/Office: 22.4% 27.1%
Fish./Farm./Forest.: 0.7% 0.3%
Constr./Extr./Maint.: 11.5% 9.0%
Prod./Trans.: 28.1% 13.4%
Unemployment/Poverty:
ZIP 46733 84403
Unemployed: 2.4% 4.3%
Below Pov. Line: 5.3% 10.3%
Race:
ZIP 46733 84403
Hispanic/Latino: 4.9% 14.6%
White*: 94.1% 79.9%
Black*: 0.2% 1.3%
Native American*: 1.0%
Asian*: 0.2% 1.8%
HI/Pac. Isl.*: 0.2%
Other*: 0.1%
Multi*: 0.4% 1.5%
* Does not include individuals in this racial group who identify as Hispanic/Latino.
Age/Sex:
ZIP 46733 84403
Males: 49.3% 49.7%
Females: 50.7% 50.3%
Median Age: 35.7 30.0
4 comments:
Wow! That is really fascinating! I think I will go online to compare some other areas.
It looks like there is a great disparity between rich and poor in Ogden (or at least your zip code). Do you suppose it has anything to do with the Hispanic population there?
I found the education statistics interesting as well.
Thanks for such an interesting blog. I didn't know there was a way to tap into those statistics!
Claudia
I would disagree with mom that there is a great disparity between rich and poor in Ogden. I think that it would be more of a standard bell curve before $100,000. Yes, there are more people in Ogden (than in Decatur)making more than $100,000, it seems to me that it is pretty close to what is going on nationally and similar in Decatur. Regardless of race, there are poor everywhere!
I bet that there is a real disparity between income in L.A. I know here we have a dwindling middle class with an increasing amount of the population making below the poverty level and an increasing number of people making above $150,000.
I also wonder about how they gathered this data. Is this from the census? Is it a survey? Gathered by whom? When? What is the n?
Sites like this are very fun, but I think you always need to be a little skeptical of data without explanation and you need to be careful to not make assumptions about an area based solely on numbers.
Sorry for the lecture family-I'm taking a lot of quantitative analysis/methods classes this semester.
Those quantitative analysis classes sound just like what I need to take to understand all the raw data. I loved that book "Freakanomics" exactly for that reason. There were intelligent people looking at the data, and interpreting what the data could possibly mean.
Sometimes I wish I was smart enough to be an actuary, so I could do the math necessary to do the analysis. I think that data analysis is so fascinating. What do the numbers really mean.
We are into chapter 2 of our math books this week and it is all about data collection, organization, and analysis, but at the seventh grade level, that mostly means frequency tables, stem and leaf plots, number plots, box and whiskers plots, and mean, median, and mode. Two days after teaching mean, median and mode, when my homeroom was taking the ISTEP, one kid asked me what the word MEAN meant. I wanted to strangle him. Of course he wasn't paying attention when I taught him. Statistics = boring to most seventh graders.
Betsey, keep on helping me become more intelligent, and show me what the statistics mean.
I love you all,
Claudia
i'm not sure of the references, but i'm assuming census data. compare 84403 to 84401. that will be "east bench" vs. central Ogden
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