Household income by London Underground station
This feature in the New Yorker shows median household income across the city's subway network. It shows some serious inequality: line 2 rises from the lowest depths of $13,750 at East 180 St. in the Bronx to the staggering heights of $205,192 at Park Place in downtown Manhattan.
Dan Grover put together a similar visualization for the San Francisco bay area. Turns out the bay area is pretty unequal too: in a single CalTrain stop, median annual income plummets from $193,125 at Atherton to just $30,080 at Redwood City.
I was curious what this kind of visualization would look like for my city, London. The surprising result: while there is a considerable income gap, it doesn't come close to the factor-of-10 gap you can find in NY and SF. I suspect part of it has to do with differences in the datasets – the figures I'm using here are model-based estimates of weekly household income.
This should work in recent versions of Firefox or any webkit-based browser. It is highly unlikely to work in Internet Explorer. Select a line to get started:
- Harrow & Wealdstone to Elephant & Castle
- Ealing Broadway to Epping (via Newbury Park)
- Ealing Broadway to Epping (via Woodford)
- West Ruislip to Epping (via Woodford)
- Hammersmith to Bayswater
- Earl's Court to Ealing Broadway
- Earl's Court to Edgware Road
- Earl's Court to Upminster
- Earl's Court to Wimbledon
- Earl's Court to Richmond
- Hammersmith to Barking
- Stanmore to Stratford
- Aldgate to Uxbridge
- Aldgate to Amersham
- Aldgate to Chesham
- Aldgate to Watford
- Morden to High Barnet (via Bank)
- Morden to High Barnet (via Charing Cross)
- Morden to Edgware (via Bank)
- Morden to Edgware (via Charing Cross)
- Cockfosters to Heathrow
- Cockfosters to Uxbridge
- Walthamstow Central to Brixton
- Waterloo to Bank