Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 08:17     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
I’m at $253K for the first time this year and still juggling FB aments. If you weren’t lucky enough to get a 2% mortgage, life is extremely expensive.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 21:37     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As a family of five in DC with a HHI of about exactly $250k, I 100% agree. Honestly, we could really feel the difference in moving Fromm about $225k to about $250k - I think around here that’s about the tipping point from UMC to… well upper class has implications beyond income, so let’s say “well off.”


This. My husband explained it like this: If you need 200k just to pay all bills, etc and your income goes from $225k to 250k, then your discretionary income essentially doubled. (25k to 50k) which is why you feel it so much.


Glad your husband is present to help undertake basic critical thinking.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 21:30     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
Anonymous wrote:As a family of five in DC with a HHI of about exactly $250k, I 100% agree. Honestly, we could really feel the difference in moving Fromm about $225k to about $250k - I think around here that’s about the tipping point from UMC to… well upper class has implications beyond income, so let’s say “well off.”


This. My husband explained it like this: If you need 200k just to pay all bills, etc and your income goes from $225k to 250k, then your discretionary income essentially doubled. (25k to 50k) which is why you feel it so much.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 19:01     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
This calculator is odd apparently 250k is the same class at 2m lol
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 17:48     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
80K to 210K is the middle income tier for a family of 4 in the DC area, according to that calculator. It's not wrong. This has been pretty consistent among economic calculators for a number of years now.

Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 17:37     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
The median family income in DC is around $150,000. $250,000 for a family would be around the upper bound of middle class for DC.

But this a stupid discussion because $250k in the DMV is not rich even though it would be in Peoria.

https://www.incomebyzipcode.com/districtofcolumbia

Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 15:43     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
Anonymous wrote:In the country as a whole middle class isn't very high life. The lower threshold for MC in Arlington is around $90k. 2/3 the median income.
MC is having a budget, juggling payments, maybe some college.


The majority of college students are middle class.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 15:21     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
Anonymous wrote:In the country as a whole middle class isn't very high life. The lower threshold for MC in Arlington is around $90k. 2/3 the median income.
MC is having a budget, juggling payments, maybe some college.



Or a bachelor's/master's degree and is a teacher.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 14:28     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
As a family of five in DC with a HHI of about exactly $250k, I 100% agree. Honestly, we could really feel the difference in moving Fromm about $225k to about $250k - I think around here that’s about the tipping point from UMC to… well upper class has implications beyond income, so let’s say “well off.”
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 13:35     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
In the country as a whole middle class isn't very high life. The lower threshold for MC in Arlington is around $90k. 2/3 the median income.
MC is having a budget, juggling payments, maybe some college.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 12:35     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
Anonymous wrote:What is sadder are all the DC area people in households that have a $400k annual income who claim to be just middle class and struggling to get by. So. Out. Of. Touch.


Forgot to add Exhibit A:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1277318.page
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 12:34     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
What is sadder are all the DC area people in households that have a $400k annual income who claim to be just middle class and struggling to get by. So. Out. Of. Touch.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 11:49     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
I'm just....middle class lol
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 11:26     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
I wasn’t sure which way this was going to go. I happen to agree with the survey but your post easily could have gone the other way on this forum!
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 10:31     Subject: PSA: $250K family of 4 in the DMV area is not middle class
..no matter how much you think you are. If you feel middle class, then your spending is probably too high.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/16/are-you-in-the-american-middle-class/