[quote=ILoveRegulation][quote=AN]
Go read the data and come back here and tell me what you see.[/quote]

I see data that hasn’t been adjusted for inflation. The SignOnSanDiego data is adjusted for inflation and shows that buying power of the median household has gone down over the last nine years.[/quote]
Maybe you should look harder. There are inflation adjusted numbers in the Census’s data.

Where did the SignOnSD writer get her data? She mentioned “Since 2005, the median household income in San Marcos has fallen by 29 percent — from about $73,700 to $52,000.”, but according to SANDAG, San Marcos’s Median house hold income is $75,336. Here’s the source: http://profilewarehouse.sandag.org/profiles/est/city15est.pdf.

House Hold Median income in San Marcos in 2000 was $45,854, here’s the source: http://profilewarehouse.sandag.org/profiles/cen00/city15cen00.pdf. Not adjusted for inflation, it’s $75,336, adjusted for inflation, it’s $53,724. See source above.

Besides the San Marcos #, the article didn’t mention any other HH Median income. But you’re free to do your own data mining from SANDAG’s database: http://profilewarehouse.sandag.org/ and get back to me with what you find out.

BTW, here’s the data for SD COUNTY from SANDAG (Census).
2000: http://profilewarehouse.sandag.org/profiles/cen00/reg999cen00.pdf
2010: http://profilewarehouse.sandag.org/profiles/est/reg999est.pdf

The SD County median HHI was $47,268 in 2000 and is $72,963 ($52,032 if you adjust for inflation).

Another interesting fact, in 1990, 25% of San Diegan have a Bachelor or higher. In 2000, it’s 31%. There’s no official data for 2010 yet, so it’ll be interesting to see what the 2010 data is.