For that person trying to figure out whether her family's income would "fit in" to WJ

[Anonymous]

This came out today - http://www.census.gov/censusexplorer/censusexplorer.html

Plug in zipcode, address you name it - you'll get median income for the area. Then factor out that some may go to private school, and I think you'll have your answer that you'll be just fine at WJ.

[Anonymous]

The poster will actually be just fine if she just relaxes and realizes that her child will make friends on his own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The poster will actually be just fine if she just relaxes and realizes that her child will make friends on his own.

I feel the same way too pp. When I saw that thread I thought -- 'what the heck?"

[Anonymous]

Wow. I had no idea I lived in a census tract where the HHI is 240K+... when our HHI is below 100K. The lovely quasi-estates a few streets down must skew the median quite a bit. Our street with human-sized houses and kids running in every back yard must be the "poorest" in this census tract!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The poster will actually be just fine if she just relaxes and realizes that her child will make friends on his own.

I didn't read the post as helicopter parenting but as trying to see whether the family would feel comfortable in the community.

[Anonymous]

I also found it interesting for the stat of the foreign born in our HHI tract. I am inordinately proud that we have such a diverse neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

I saw that link on DCist last night and spent way too much time looking at stats when I should've been sleeping. Fascinating.

[Anonymous]

I know that many people in my neighborhood are older and bought houses when they cost a fraction of what they cost now. So this doesn't really reflect the HHI of families now moving to the area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The poster will actually be just fine if she just relaxes and realizes that her child will make friends on his own.

I didn't read the post as helicopter parenting but as trying to see whether the family would feel comfortable in the community.

wow -- you are just as oblivious as the original thread poster. WHO LOOKS UP THESE THINGS AND USE IT AS A DETERMINANT OF THEIR COMFORT?????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The poster will actually be just fine if she just relaxes and realizes that her child will make friends on his own.

I didn't read the post as helicopter parenting but as trying to see whether the family would feel comfortable in the community.

wow -- you are just as oblivious as the original thread poster. WHO LOOKS UP THESE THINGS AND USE IT AS A DETERMINANT OF THEIR COMFORT?????

Wow, you seem upset. If it makes you feel better, I'm sure OP, and I, and the other posters on this thread don't relay solely on median income to figure out whether we would be comfortable living in a place.

[Anonymous]

I'm the OP of the original thread this one is referencing. To this OP - thanks for the link. To the people suggesting I'm helicoptering - I can see how you get this from the other thread. However, I posted on Real Estate rather than school because it was for my ability to fit in rather than my kids. I was using HHI as one marker of many (as PP suggested) to help understand the neighborhood feel. We have traditional middle class values, live simply but value education. I'm extrapolating that people in the same HHI live similarly - this may or may not be true but is information never the less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OP of the original thread this one is referencing. To this OP - thanks for the link. To the people suggesting I'm helicoptering - I can see how you get this from the other thread. However, I posted on Real Estate rather than school because it was for my ability to fit in rather than my kids. I was using HHI as one marker of many (as PP suggested) to help understand the neighborhood feel. We have traditional middle class values, live simply but value education. I'm extrapolating that people in the same HHI live similarly - this may or may not be true but is information never the less.

OP -- u are making a very bad assumption. Those are things you find out by having relationships with people not statistics. I say this gently not snarky!

[Anonymous]

Didn't read the other thread, but thanks for the link OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OP of the original thread this one is referencing. To this OP - thanks for the link. To the people suggesting I'm helicoptering - I can see how you get this from the other thread. However, I posted on Real Estate rather than school because it was for my ability to fit in rather than my kids. I was using HHI as one marker of many (as PP suggested) to help understand the neighborhood feel. We have traditional middle class values, live simply but value education. I'm extrapolating that people in the same HHI live similarly - this may or may not be true but is information never the less.

OP -- u are making a very bad assumption. Those are things you find out by having relationships with people not statistics. I say this gently not snarky!

Thank u, thank u. None of us would ever have thought to communicate with real people rather than relying only on statistics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I had no idea I lived in a census tract where the HHI is 240K+... when our HHI is below 100K. The lovely quasi-estates a few streets down must skew the median quite a bit. Our street with human-sized houses and kids running in every back yard must be the "poorest" in this census tract!

Median is the midpoint. So means that half the households in the tract are below the median. And half are above. The "lovely quasi estates" might skew the average but less likely to skew a median.