More on the interactive census-data map (previously): they call it "wealthy northwest Greensboro" for a reason.

The darker the green on the map above (click to enlarge), the higher the concentration of households making $200K or more per year. The darkest green patch represents Irving Park and some perfectly nice neighboring areas that are not quite Irving Park; one-third of the households in this census tract bring in at least $200K per year.

You can summon another version that shows big patches of the city where a majority of households earn less than $30K per year, including one tract defined largely by Lee, S.Elm/Eugene, Freeman Mill, and Florida where 82% of households fall under that low mark.

Alert reader RP goes to the median income tab and posits that the Irving Park figure of $157,563 may be the highest in North Carolina, but notes that it's flat over the last decade. (RP also points to the stats on kids enrolled in private schools.)

The median household income for that Lee/Eugene tract? $14,963, down 28% since 2000. Scroll across the poorer neighbhoods and look at all the big drops there.

Summerfield, where mansions have replaced farm fields along Lake Brandt Road, has seen double-digit income growth in the same time.

Comments

[David Wharton]

Downtown income was up more than 100%, so it looks like DGI has been earning its keep. But a 28% drop is above average for many east G'boro neighborhoods. It was -30% in my census tract; in some neighborhoods south of I-40 it was -40%, and Glenwood seems to have gone -45%.

But even some of the wealthier neighborhoods have suffered. It looks like Sunset Hills/Hamilton Lakes is down 12%.

So ... downtown and exurbs did well. Old suburbs, very badly.

[RecycleBill]

Just wait until those septic tanks in Summerfield start overflowing and we get Forest Oaks all over again.

Why do I say that? My first wife's family gave us our pick of over 700 acres to chose to build a home. Problem was, when we started doing dozens of perk tests the building inspectors turned us down every time. So her family sold that same 700 acres to a developer who managed to get every 1/4 to 1/2 acre plot to perk.

Like I said, Forest Oaks all over again.

[James]

Thanks for digging this up. It'll bring out the statistical nerd in all of us!

[glenwoodobserver]

Not surprising about incomes in Glenwood. Homeowning families with solid blue-collar jobs have been replaced by student tenants and an otherwise transient population dependent upon cheap rent. The good news is that low-wage earners can still afford to live in Glenwood (for now). The next census will include (at least) 800 new students into Census Tract 115. It was wonderful to see how truly diverse our tract is with regards to ethnic heritage.

[MojoNixon]

Census tract 28 in Charlotte has a median household income nearly $50,000 higher than tract 10404 (Old Irving Park) in Greensboro.