Income Disparities

For this Tidy Tuesday, I decided to try my hand at interactive visualization. This week’s data comes from the Urban Institute and includes all sorts of interesting and important demographic data on wealth and income distribution. For the purposes of this visualization, I focused purely on income distribution.

FourthHighestLowestMiddleSecondTop 5%198020002020$0$100,000$200,000$300,000$400,000
The Rich Keep Getting Richer​Mean income by quintile, 1967 - 2019​Mean Income (2019 dollars)Source: Urban Institute, US Census

Addendum: I was asked on Twitter what this breakdown looked like within the top 5%.

This information was not available within this data set, but I found more data from the Economic Policy Institute that allows us to answer this question.

1960198020002020$0$1,000,000$2,000,000$3,000,000
Top 0.1%Top 1%99-99.9%Top 5%95-99%90-99%90-95%Bottom 90%The Super-Rich Keep Getting Richer​Mean income by wage group, 1947 - 2018​Mean Income (2018 dollars)Wage GroupSource: Economic Policy Institute

The code is available in my GitHub repository.

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