Interesting facts about the Dallas-Fort Worth area
If you make $50,000 annually in Dallas, you'd need the following salaries to maintain the status quo in these cities:
Austin-$58,343
Houston-$50,800
San Antonio-$48,971
Boston-$85,029
San Francisco-$113,714
Seattle-$81,543
Atlanta-$53,714
Los Angeles-$82,057
Chicago-$60,057
2005: $45,146
2009: $49,856
2011: $46,160
Metro-area population:
2005: 5,816,407
2009: 6,447,615
2011: 6,526,548
Interesting stats:
2.6 Average household size
21.1 % of obese adults
31.8 Median resident age
27.7 % of adults with at least a bachelor's degree
58 % of family households
1,603 Number of full-service restaurants
$1,196 Average monthly rent for one-bedroom apartment
$135,600 Estimated median house or condo value
$87,400 Estimated median house or condo value in 2000
Unemployment rate:
5.8% July 2008
8.7% July 2009
9.1% July 2010
8.9% July 2011
7.9% July 2012
[This information gleaned from The Dallas Business Journal week of October 26, 2012, page 11.]
3 comments:
The unemployment rate is much higher than 7.9, counting the ones who have given up looking.
Get ready for a Romney landslide!
Larry, I'm pretty sure you would like Romney to win, you just can't afford to say so.
What a Landslide!
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