The CD by the Numbers

They do estimates on a yearly basis. The neighborhood numbers came from here: http://www.ffiec.gov/Geocode/CensusDemo.aspx

Thank you.
This is good but I don't see the stats by area of the city or neighborhood, whatever.

Thanks for the links. City-wide data seems tough to find. The link you include for median income is the "metro-area", including the east-side that pushes it up substantially.

I got the city-wide median from:
http://www.realestate.com/WA/Seattle/Seattle-Area-Info-Incom

But it looks like that's old, so I've updated it to match that in Wikipedia: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53/5363000.html.

I got the overall demographic data for Seattle from:
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53/5363000.html

The detailed stats on the neighborhood came straight from the Census bureau:
http://www.ffiec.gov/Geocode/CensusDemo.aspx

I admit I am coming at it sideways. I am just making the point that when the City talks about "Workforce" Tax Abatement Programs or 'Workforce' Incentive Zoning, they are talking about 80% of $80,000, which has NO relevance to the workforce in Seattle or the CD. It doesn't even hit the AVERAGE of incomes in the metro area.

It's just a caution because if I hear 80% of median and I am thinking median is $52K or even $62K, then I would think about those proposals very differently. Makes me think who does the city want to encourage to move into the CD and who does the city want to encourage to move 'somewhere' else. And, then I guess commute to do all the jobs that need doing.

First, as a part-time demographer, I'm thrilled to see Scott's analysis and the interest it has generated. I *heart* the numbers and am glad to see others do too!

Part of the median income puzzles discussed above may be due to the fact that there are two different units of analysis, household versus family.

Households are persons who live in one location; families are groups of two or more related by blood, marriage or adoption. You can have a household of one or a household of two or more unrelated persons (often roommates). Single persons living alone are included in household income statistics, but not in family income statistics. Since - on average - one person earns less than two, this means that household income is almost always lower than family income. The dynamics of family formation also mean that people in families are often higher earners because parents and married persons tend to be a little older than non-parents and non-married persons. Older people also on average earn more.

A related issue is whether families and households in the CD are comparable in size and composition to other parts of the city. If we have more single-person households and/or more single-parent families, that would make our household and family income look lower even if the individuals involved had the same levels of earnings.

Don't understand how you could get a median for the area based on medians for each census tract. Also, 2008 numbers are estimated and hte population numbers are from the 2000 census.

Sorry - that site has some usability issues and a very frustrating non-persistent url structure. Try this link:
http://www.ffiec.gov/Geocode/default.aspx

Put in the address for the area you're looking for, and it will bring up the stats for the matching census tract.

I used 7 of them to get stats across the entire neighborhood (address to find it in parenthesis):
87 (700 22nd Ave 98122)
88 (700 26th Ave 98122)
77 (1400 26th Ave 98122)
79 (1400 26th Ave 98122)
86 (700 14th Ave 98122)
89 (700 24th Ave S 98144)
90 (500 20th Ave S 98144)

I've also attached a copy of the census map as an image above.