Households That Make Less then $20k in America 💵

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If Puerto Rico was a state, it would be by far the poorest in America. Significant poverty continues to exist in the south, indeed the most impoverished states are Mississippi, West Virginia, Louisiana, New Mexico and Alabama according to the 2020 American Community Survey 5 year averages.

State Households Making Under 20k
Puerto Rico 48.2
Mississippi 22.6
West Virginia 20.6
Louisiana 20.1
New Mexico 19.6
Alabama 19.3
Arkansas 18.9
Kentucky 18.8
South Carolina 17.0
Tennessee 16.6
Oklahoma 16.2
North Carolina 15.8
Ohio 15.6
Georgia 15.2
Missouri 15.2
District of Columbia 15.2
Montana 15.1
New York 15.0
Maine 15.0
Michigan 14.9
Florida 14.9
Rhode Island 14.6
Indiana 14.6
Pennsylvania 14.2
Texas 13.9
Arizona 13.7
Vermont 13.7
Illinois 13.7
Kansas 13.6
North Dakota 13.5
South Dakota 13.5
Iowa 13.4
Nevada 13.4
Idaho 13.3
Oregon 13.1
Wyoming 13.0
Wisconsin 12.9
Nebraska 12.7
Massachusetts 12.5
California 11.9
Delaware 11.7
Connecticut 11.6
Virginia 11.3
New Jersey 11.0
Minnesota 10.9
Colorado 10.8
Washington 10.6
Hawaii 10.0
Maryland 10.0
New Hampshire 9.9
Alaska 9.9
Utah 9.2

Here is the R code for making these statistics:

library(tidycensus)
income <- get_acs(
  geography = “state”,
  table = ‘B19001’,
  year = 2020,
  output = ‘wide’,
  survey = “acs5”,
  geometry = F);
perincome <- income  %>% select(ends_with(‘E’), -ends_with(‘001E’)) %>%
  rowwise() %>% mutate(total = sum(across(matches(‘dE’)))) %>%
  mutate(across(matches(‘dE’), ~(./total)*100 )) %>% select(-total)
perincome %>% rowwise %>% mutate(under20k = sum(across(c(B19001_002E, B19001_003E, B19001_004E)))) %>% select(NAME, under20k) %>% arrange(-under20k) %>% write_csv(‘/tmp/hhunder20k.csv’)

Median Home Value

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The Eastern Seaboard from Washington DC to Boston MA has some of the United States' highest home values, along with Southern California from San Francisco down to Los Angeles. Seattle, Colorado, and parts of Southern Florida are also expensive places to live. Surprisingly, Chicago IL is relatively inexpensive place to buy a home. Areas that are blue and green are less expensive to buy a home, yellows are about average, while oranges and reds are the most expensive places to own a home.

Data Source: Median Home Value, 2011-2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml?refresh=t

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the weekend 🏕

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I would love to go to the Adirondacks, but it’s such a long trip up there and I’m just worried I’ll have to work on Friday into Saturday, and that will put a dent into my trip. Going to be such a nice weekend.

Then I am just not really motivated to do a lot of packing tonight for a three day trip, go to the store get supplies, gas up my truck. Frankly, this week has just tired me out. With the longer nights in staying up later and later but with sun up early I’m going, often closer to 5 o’clock then I’d like to admit.

While I did it for years – leave work at five and drive two hours to the Adirondacks, then set up camp as darkness approaches, ever since the pandemic it’s not as much fun when I could get a jump start in the morning by working remotely. Last year, I often took off Friday and just drove up early, I might do again come the Juneteenth holiday.

The bugs will most certainly be bad for the weekend, as it’s the first real warm up the year since leaf out. The water temperatures really cold. Sunny and mild but I will be trapped under the screen tent, avoiding the black flies. And next weekend looks like rain. While probably searching for cell service or working on my laptop.

There is still a lot of summer remaining. Next weekend assuming it doesn’t rain, I’ll probably be less busy with work and it will be easier to get out of town. Tomorrow night I’ll do my evening walk early and around 8 pm go shopping. Thinking about hammock camping in the back country on Saturday and Sunday, real simple with a flashlight and candles. I’ll portion out my meals so I don’t have too much to carry on back thtere. Or maybe go kayaking on the Hudson River. And devote some time to trueing the wheel on my bicycle.