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Unemployment: Housing Bubble vs Manufacturing (Jan 2009)

by Catherine on June 28, 2009

Screenshots taken from NYTimes Interactive graphic. While not the most recent unemployment data, I liked these maps because you see the the location of the house bubble and the manufacturing in the U.S. and the severity of the unemployment in many of those areas.

Housing Bubble

Unemployment rate in counties where home prices rose to at least 175% of 2000 levels.

Manufacturing

Unemployment rate in counties where at least 25 percent of earnings came from manufacturing, 1998-2000.

Tagged as: Choropleth Map, Housing, Interactive Graphic, Unemployment, United States

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Housing Prices Heat Map 1975 – 2008 [Stephen Heise]

by Catherine on March 17, 2009

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Created Stephen Heise based on OFHEO data. Found via Economix.

Red highlights those states with sale prices above their historical price trend
Blue highlights those states with sale prices below their historical price trend

Watch the automation at his site:

Tagged as: Blog, Choropleth Map, Housing, United States, Video

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Housing Starts Jan 1968 – Jan 2009 [Calculated Risk]

by Catherine on March 8, 2009

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Housing starts over the last 40 years. Take a look at the rest at February Economic Summary in GraphsÂ from Calculated Risk found via Marginal Revolution

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Tagged as: Blog, CPI, Housing, Line Graph, Recessions, Unemployment, United States

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Change in Home Prices: 2001-2008 (NYTimes)

by Catherine on January 4, 2009

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From New York Times Economix blog. The change in home prices for the previous 12 months for 20 US cities from 2001-2008. I took the graph for each city and order them by the change in home prices from Oct 2007 – Oct 2008. The blue bars is each city’s data while the gray is the 20-city average.

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[tags]United States, Home Prices[/tags]

Tagged as: Bar Chart, Blog, Cities, Housing, Unemployment, United States

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Where do Britain’s rich and poor live?

by Catherine on September 8, 2007

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Here are two maps showing Britain’s wealthiest and poorest households. (Unlike some of the previous maps I have posted about the US, this map of the UK relies on assets rather than income to determine who is rich and who is poor). I found this via the BBC from a Joseph Rowntree Foundation study: Poverty and wealth across Britain 1968 to 2005 Unlike the US, there seems to be very little rural poverty in the UK.

uk poverty graphic

See also: United States Poverty Map
United States Household Income Map
[tags]BBC, Britain, UK, Wealth, Poverty[/tags]

Tagged as: Choropleth Map, Housing, Income - High, Income - Low, United Kingdom, United States

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United States “Cost of Home Ownership as % of Income” Map

by Catherine on August 30, 2007

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Here I have mapped the cost of owning a home as % of household income (taken from the 2000 Census). This is calculated by dividing the median cost of owning a home by the household income for a given area. If you would like to see a more detailed version go to Social Explorer and choose “Housing” from the second drop down then “Median Owner Costs: % of Income” and select the magnifying glass to zoom in on a specific county.

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