More Census data! This time it is the U.S. income distribution for 2005 showing the number of households up to $250,000. (I have since added more graphs that include incomes above $250,000: 2005 US Income Distribution Part 2 and 2005 US Income Distribution Part 3)
{Click on the graph to take a closer look}
While the original Census data can be found in U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey Table HINC-06. Income Distribution to $250,000 or More for Households I needed to calculate the number of households in $10,000 increments for this graph. (That calculation can be found here: Census household income distribution. Besides the income distribution for 2005, I added 2004 as a bonus. It can be viewed by anyone with a Google Account.)
See Also: 2005 US Income Distribution Part 2 and 2005 US Income Distribution Part 3 for graphs of the rich and super rich. And United States’ Average Income since 1913 both with and without capital gains.
Addendum:
11/19/2006 Added upper limits of income quintiles and the median from Table H-1. Income Limits for Each Fifth and Top 5 Percent of Households
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nice, but 2 ways to improve:
1) It would be helpful if you drew the vertical and labeled it - nobody wants to count those little houses and then multiply by 500K.
2) little houses should be drawn only on the graph, and where it explains that each house represents 500 k housholds.
Do not dra it next to total household count and next to count of households below 250k - it confuses the reader.
Now what would be really interesting is to get an income distribution change over time, like your average income over time graph.
Have you considered Ben Schneiderman’s (U of MD)
“Tree Maps?” It’s a way of plotting how much
of the pie each percentile gets. Hint, half of the graph is taken up by 1 percentile, and the other boxes are scrunched…