{"id":1976,"date":"2007-10-08T10:24:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2007-10-08T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:24:48","slug":"zipskinny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1976","title":{"rendered":"ZIPskinny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demographics of my <a href=\"http:\/\/zipskinny.com\/index.php?zip=27502\">ZIP code<\/a> tell me that I live in an area now that's younger, more educated and more dense than <a href=\"http:\/\/zipskinny.com\/index.php?zip=12839&x=0&y=0\">the place<\/a> where I grew up, with a median income more than <i>twice<\/i> that of the place I left, with higher employment and marriage rates. Fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>Even more fascinating are the \"top 100\" lists. For example, the list of places in the US with the highest percentage of Graduate-level degrees includes <a href=\"http:\/\/zipskinny.com\/index.php?zip=02661\">South Harwich, MA<\/a>, where 100% of the population has a degree. The thing is, there are only 6 people there: one man in his 70s and five women, two of which are in their 80s; their median income is $16K.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting one: the top 100 areas with the highest median income (blurred a bit by the fact that they lump all incomes above $200K together) includes <a href=\"http:\/\/zipskinny.com\/index.php?zip=28378\">Rex, NC<\/a>. This spec of a town (.8 sq miles) has a population of just over 50. A few well-off people got together and formed a postal zone?<\/p>\n<p>Highest unemployment? 100% of the 227 people in <a href=\"http:\/\/zipskinny.com\/index.php?zip=29202\">this section of Columbia, SC<\/a> are out of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demographics of my ZIP code tell me that I live in an area now that's younger, more educated and more dense than the place where I grew up, with a median income more than twice that of the place I left, with higher employment and marriage rates. Fascinating. Even more fascinating are the \"top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}