Noticed this uses “median HOUSEHOLD income”. My guess is that household income has risen much faster than salaries over the period considered due to the increase in multiple earners under the same roof (anyone got data on that?). If so, then this analysis is somewhat watered down. Another way to look at it… In SD, for many people, it now takes two incomes to afford the same house that one income could buy in 1980… this is where those of us who lived in SD in 1980 say, “No duh!”
