EsriPosted on 07/18/2015 1:26:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Like it or not, where you decide to live often says a lot about you.
You're not totally defined by your zip code, but a website spotted by Reddit seeks to show people what zip codes say about the average demographic, culture, and lifestyle in one's area.
Here's how it works:
The "Zip Lookup" tool is powered by Esri, a geographic-information firm based in California.
Just head to the website, type in your zip code, and you'll be greeted with a breakdown of your zip code's demographic characteristics based on Esri's "Tapestry" technology, which consists of 67 unique market segment classifications.
The percentage breakdown shows you the mixture of different classifications.
Here's an example of the breakdown for Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
By clicking on the different demographics, you can see a summary of the type of person Esri's geographic data says you are.
For Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 60% are labeled as "Trendsetters," who are described as singles "not ready to settle down, unfettered by home and vehicle ownership" and with "good jobs who spend our disposable income on upscale city living and entertainment — mostly on rent."
Here's the breakdown for the other two demographics, "Downtown Melting Pot" and "High Rise Renters."
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I put in my zip code and a CBF flashed up.
You just get past the fact that, Yes, they are all talking about you in a foreign language, right in front of you.
.......and the skys are not cloudy all day. Yee-Haw!!
mmmm nope. Some chunks of the zip sure. But not my neighborhood, or the ones around it, and way not me.
On mine the results say “ here there be dragons.”
Sorta reads like an astrology site
Wow...I wish somebody had clued me into my lifestyle earlier. I could have stopped doing all those honey-do chores, spent more time at the club and added another Ferrari to the collection.
Thanks a lot for that reassuring little memo. Now I’ll really worry! How can those people in Washington think they can “diversify” us if Europe could never do it? All those countries over there have their own language, culture, food, music and faces. The more I live in this town the more I see that people want to be with people like themselves. I don’t blame them. I do too!
Mine said it was predominantly “Pleasantville.” That’s pretty accurate.
Nope, not me or my neighbors at all.
Creepily INACCURATE should be the descriptor.
"The elders", median income $44K, avg age 69.
I don't think anyone could live here if they only made $44K, but then most people here only visit these houses in the winter time. That's southern Florida for you.
I typed in one of the hellhole zips in Baltimore (21217).
Talk about sugar coating a turd!
Based on what it lists in my zip code, I better move. Apparently obunghole is on the way to diversify us.
Relatively worthless for my zip code:
18% In Style
14% Bright Young Professionals
12% Young and Restless
These don’t even total 50%.
Well, we ARE multilingual and multi-ethnic. But there isn’t a Nordstrom or Whole Foods within 100 miles - yet they think our community shops there.
According to my zipcode, the Lakota Sioux are leaving the encampment at Little Bighorn and heading my way. Holy cow.
I guess it's understood that half of your neighbors are just poor white trash.
It would be even more fun to check various zipcodes in Detroit.Or Ferguson.
Unimpressed.
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