DDA Confusion

by shinblind

Feb 12, 2018

Minor point.

In the recent City Council Agenda Packet, the DDA claims that they sent out a Holiday Mailer to..."8,000 households in Manistee, Ludington and Scottville on USPS routes with an average income of $44k".

Except that the annual household income of these 3 cities is closer to $34,000 not $44,000. 

Now if you take the annual income of both  Mason and Manistee County households that figure is around $44,000.

But then you are dealing with around 22,000 households, the DDA said they sent out 8,000 Holiday Mailers.  

Were the Holiday Mailers sent only to residents above a certain income level? 

Seems it can not be both ways.   

Data from US Census Bureau.

Come to think about it, I am uncertain if I got a holiday mailer.

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    XLFD

    Thanks for noticing the discrepancy, I'm glad I'm not the only numbers wonk.  I hope you don't mind my 'snip' of the relevant entry I placed in your analysis, and I hope you don't mind these further facts from the same website (bestplaces.com) which shows the disparity between city and county living in the two counties and three major cities:

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