DELAWARE VALLEY DATA 1990 CENSUS INCOME Data Bulletin NO.44

1990 CENSUS 1989 INCOME BY MUNICIPALITY

This data bulletin contains selected income characteristics for the year 1989 from the Summary Tape File 3 of the 1990 Census. All information in this bulletin is derived from the sample data contained from the "long form" questionnaire filled out by approximately 15% of all respondents to the 1990 Census.

The income characteristics are listed for each municipality in an expanded four-state, twenty-eight county area. These counties include the nine DVRPC member counties as well as the nineteen surrounding counties, and comprise the DVRPC 1990 census data service area. (See Map 1.)

The following tables were selected for this summary:

Total Population
Media Household Income
Median Family Income
Per Capita Income
Number of Households with Income:

< $5,000
$5,000 - $9,999
$10,000 - $14,999
$15,000 - $24,999
$25,000 - $34,999
$35,000 - $49,999
$50,000 - $74,999
$75,000 - $99,999
> $100,000

The Census Bureau defines the above variables as follows:

Family - "A family consists of a householder and one or more other persons living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption. All persons in a household who are related to the householder are regarded as members of his or her family."

Household - "A household includes all the persons who occupy a housing unit. A housing unit is a house, an apartment, a mobile home, a group of rooms, or a single room that is occupied (or if vacant, is intended for occupancy) as separate living quarters. Separate living quarters are those in which the occupants live and eat separately for any other persons in the building and which have direct access from the outside of the building or a common hall. The occupants may be a single family, a person living alone, two or more families living together, or any other group of related or unrelated persons who share living arrangements. In 100-percent tabulations, the count of households or householders always equals the count of occupied housing units."

Income - It is defined as the money income received in 1989 from persons fifteen years old and over. The census recognizes the following eight types of income: Wage or salary income (before deductions for taxes, union dues, bonds, or pensions), nonfarm self-employment income (gross receipts minus operating expenses), farm self-employment income, interest, dividend, or net rental income, social security income, public assistance income, retirement or disability income, and all other income. The 'all other income' category includes unemployment compensation, Veterans Administration payments, alimony and child support payments and other types of periodic income other than earnings. The following types of income are not included: income from sale of property, 'in-kind' social transfer payments such as food stamps, tax refunds, lump-sum inheritances, insurance payments, or other types of lump-sum receipts.

Income of Households - Includes the income of the householder and all other persons fifteen years old and over in the household, whether related to the householder or not.

Median Income - The median divides the income distribution into two equal parts, one having incomes above the median and the other having incomes below the median. The median income is based on the distribution of the total number of units, whether households or families, including those with no income.

Per Capita Income - It is the mean income computed for every man, woman and child in a particular group. It is derived by dividing the total income of a particular group by the total population in that group.

Table One, which begins on page 5, lists income data for each municipality in the 28 counties, and includes the following totals:

Delaware 2-county total
Maryland 2-county total
New Jersey 14-county total
Pennsylvania 10-county total
DVRPC Region:

New Jersey 4-county total
Pennsylvania 5-county total
9-county region total

4-state 28-county region total
Metropolitan Statistical Area totals:

PA-NJ-DE-MD CMSA (pre-12/92 definitional change) total

Philadelphia (8 county) PMSA total
Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton PMSA total
Trenton PMSA total
Wilmington-Newark (3 county) PMSA total

PA-NJ-DE-MD CMSA (post-12/92 definitional change) total

Atlantic-Cape May PMSA total
Philadelphia (9 county) PMSA total
Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton PMSA
Wilmington-Newark (2 county) PMSA

The Census Bureau does not calculate median family, median household, or per capita income figures for all of the consolidated county area totals listed above, thus some blanks will appear in the table.

To obtain other demographic and economic information, please contact the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission at (215)592-1800.

Download data files in Tab-delimited format (for spreadsheets and databases)
Table 1: 1990 Census of Population - Income Characteristics (BY PLACE)
Table 1a: 1990 Census of Population - Income Characteristics (COUNTY TOTALS)
Table 1b: 1990 Census of Population - Income Characteristics (STATE AND REGION TOTALS)