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Figure 1. Relationship Between Percentage of Affluent and Poor Households Source: Authors' compilation based on 1950–2000 census and 2005–2015 American Community Survey data (). Note: A total of 722 commuting zones. Percent affluent computed as the number of households at or above the nation-level 95th household income percentile over the total number of households in a commuting zone. Percent relative poverty is the number of households in a commuting zone at or below half the nation-level median household income. Markers are weighted by the number of households in a commuting zone. For ease of interpretation, in figures we label years 2005–2009 as "2005" and 2011–2015 as "2010."
Figure 1.

Relationship Between Percentage of Affluent and Poor Households

Source: Authors' compilation based on 1950–2000 census and 2005–2015 American Community Survey data (Ruggles et al. 2019).

Note: A total of 722 commuting zones. Percent affluent computed as the number of households at or above the nation-level 95th household income percentile over the total number of households in a commuting zone. Percent relative poverty is the number of households in a commuting zone at or below half the nation-level median household income. Markers are weighted by the number of households in a commuting zone. For ease of interpretation, in figures we label years 2005–2009 as "2005" and 2011–2015 as "2010."

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