I sometimes have questions come my way, most often via email, about just what/where America’s Third World County is. Gleaned from Census stats and elsewhere, with [interjected comments]:
Median resident age: 34.3 years
Missouri median age: 36.1 yearsMales: 10,980 (50.6%)
Females: 10,701 (49.4%)Average wage per job in 2003: $23,161 [Lotsa illegals–proportionally–dragging the wages down]
County population in 2003: 21,999
Jobs in 2003: 6,532Total labor force in 2004: 12,079
Unemployment rate in 2004: 4.9%Average household size:
America’s Third World County: 2.6 people [I always wonder about those homes with fractional people… ]
Missouri: 2.5 peopleEstimated median household income in 2005: $29,887 ($27,010 in 2000)
America’s Third World County: $29,887 [That’s household income. The Pelosis, Obamas, Reeds and Gores, et all, of America apparently want these folks to pay $10/gallon for gas and higher prices for everything else. Jerks.]
Missouri: $41,974Estimated median house/condo value in 2005: $79,045
America’s Third World County $79,045 [Ours is valued–by several sources–higher by quite a bit; indeed, even with recent slides in twc property values, over the Missouri median–but all that does is raise our property taxes, cos we’re not selling and we’re NOT borrowing on our equity.]
Missouri: $123,100Median monthly rent in 2000: $382 [Note below: median rental is more than the mortgage payment on twc central :-)]
Institutionalized population: 110
Median monthly costs for houses with a mortgage in
America’s Third World County in 2000: $580 [twc central’s about $200 less, and will be $Zero, soon]
As you may rightly have inferred from the bits above, both wages and living expenses for America’s Third World County are generally less than in Missouri as a whole, and the same holds true for America’s Third World County vs. the U.S. in general. Indeed, when so many folks were gritching about $4.00 (and higher) gasoline, we’ve yet to see such a critter, here in America’s Third World County. (Gas is under $3.40/gallon, now that some promise of new drilling is in the wind.)
I now return to the irregularly-scheduled third world county curmudgeonry.