Sentences with phrase «national median family income»

The national median family income was $ 61,000 in the second quarter.

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Given the national household income is around $ 50,000 — $ 60,000 a year, simple math states that if you can generate 50,000 — 500,000 a month in pageviews, you'll be able to quit your job and support a median family in your underwear through your writing endeavors.

Rising home prices, despite an increase in the national family median income ($ 67,723) 4, slightly decreased affordability in the third quarter compared to the third quarter of last year.

Adjusted for inflation, the national median income for families with children dropped 6 percent from 2006 to 2014.

Florida's scholarship students are among the most disadvantaged — the average household income of scholarship families was only $ 24,067 this year, 4.5 percent above the poverty line — yet on math and read tests, they still score near the national median among all students from all income ranges.

They consider families to be poor if they make less than half the median national income.

While Greenhow cautions that the study wasn't intended to be nationally representative, it is only slightly higher than national studies by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which found that 82 percent of teens with a family median income of $ 30,000 or less were online, and that among all teens, 58 percent had a profile on a SNS.

In one school district that appears to have beaten the odds, Union City, N.J., students consistently performed about a third of a grade level above the national average on math and reading tests even though the median family income is just $ 37,000 and only 18 percent of parents have a bachelor's degree.

The conventional definition of disadvantaged students today is eligibility for free lunch, because their household income (for a family of four) is about half the national median.

«Not all of these students were from wealthy families but most were; as parents typically had advanced educational degrees and median incomes much higher than national norms,» she added.

Compared to the national median income, the families in the most well - off districts are incredibly wealthy.

In today's market, it could take a family earning the national median income up to 20 years to save 20 percent, according to calculations by U.S. Mortgage Insurers using a methodology developed by the Center for Responsible Lending; a lot can change during that time, in the family's personal finances and in overall mortgage market trends.

While the results from the Pew report are good news for married, college - educated women, who shared a total family income of nearly $ 80,000 in 2011 (generously above the national median of $ 57,100 for all families with children), the findings also showed that mothers raising children on their own earned a median income of about $ 23,000.

The trade group estimates a family needs an annual income around $ 43,000 to buy a home at the national median price, with 20 % down.

We're talking about $ 375 for a family of four making the national median income of $ 53,891 a year and contributing $ 2,500 to a traditional retirement plan.

An analysis by the National Low Income Housing Coalition estimates that there are only 22 affordable and available rental units for every 100 renters in Oregon with an income at or below 30 percent of the median family iIncome Housing Coalition estimates that there are only 22 affordable and available rental units for every 100 renters in Oregon with an income at or below 30 percent of the median family iincome at or below 30 percent of the median family incomeincome.

The equivalence scale used in the current study is the European Union scale (a modification of the OECD equivalence scale) where the first adult is given a weight of 1, subsequent adults are given a weight of 0.5 and each child < 14 years of age is given the weight 0.3.40 From this measure of family income, we calculated the proportion of adolescents in relative poverty, defined as having an equivalised household income < 60 % of the equivalised national median income for that particular year (eg, to calculate relative poverty proportions for 2004, we used the median income for 2004).

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An HOI of 73.7 means that 73.7 % of all homes sold in the first three months of 2013 were affordable to families earning the national median income ($ 64,400).

Slightly lower mortgage rates and an uptick in the national family median income ($ 65,562) kept affordability in the third quarter roughly in line with the second quarter.

To purchase a single - family home at the national median price, a buyer making a 5 percent downpayment would need an income of $ 48,334, a 10 percent downpayment would require an income of $ 45,790, and $ 40,702 would be needed for a 20 percent downpayment.

Even small increases in energy prices could have a devastating effect on families in the mid-continent region where median household incomes are $ 10,000 to $ 25,000 less than the national average.

A homebuyer with a 5 percent down payment would need an income of $ 55,585 to afford a single - family home priced at the national median.

To purchase a single - family home at the national median price, a buyer making a 5 percent down payment would need an income of $ 49,535, a 10 percent down payment would require an income of $ 46,928, and $ 41,714 would be needed for a 20 percent down payment.

Despite depressed prices in many markets, the National Association of Home Builders» Housing Opportunity Index showed in November that only 42 percent of all new and existing homes sold in the third quarter were priced low enough to be affordable for families earning the national median income of $National Association of Home Builders» Housing Opportunity Index showed in November that only 42 percent of all new and existing homes sold in the third quarter were priced low enough to be affordable for families earning the national median income of $national median income of $ 59,000.

The average home mortgage neared $ 250,000 last year, according to the National Association of REALTORS ®, which came with a monthly principal and interest payment of $ 973, or about one - sixth of median family income.

Affordability, which the Index read as lower in the third quarter, is positive overall — in fact, more than 60 percent of new - and existing - homes sold in the third quarter were affordable to families earning the national median income ($ 65,700).

In 2013, the national median inflation - adjusted family net worth — the difference between families» gross assets and their liabilities — increased only in the upper — middle income tiers of households (the top 40 percentile of income) compared to 2010.

The latest HOI data reveal that 73.8 percent of all new and existing homes sold in the second quarter were affordable to families earning the national median income of $ 65,000.

An HOI of 74.9 means that 74.9 percent of all homes sold in the last three months of 2012 were affordable to families earning the national median income ($ 65,000).

The index shows the median income family, earning just under $ 61,000, could afford a home costing $ 325,500 in the first quarter, which is more than double the national median existing single - family home price of $ 158,100.

An HOI of 74.9 means that 74.9 % of all homes sold in the last three months of 2012 were affordable to families earning the national median income ($ 65,000).

Lower interest rates and a slight rise (0.7 percent) in the national family median income ($ 64,751) led to improved buying power in a majority of metro areas during the second quarter.

For single parents, South Dakota is one of the worst states to raise a family because the median household income of $ 50,957 is below the national median.

The trade group estimates a family needs an annual income around $ 43,000 to buy a home at the national median price, with 20 % down.

Despite faster price growth last quarter, the decline in mortgage rates and an uptick in the national family median income ($ 70,306) 5 slightly improved affordability compared to a year ago.

At $ 65,635 a year, a family earning the Virginia median income would take home $ 1,132 more per month than a family earning the national median.

NAR projects the housing affordability index to average 160 during 2013, which means on a national basis that a median - income family would have 160 percent of the income needed to purchase a median - priced existing single - family home.

While the state's median income of $ 49,290 is below the $ 52,047 national median, families earning this amount and renting at a typical price could still keep housing costs fairly low at 27 percent of their pay, which is less than the 30 percent - of - income rent standard that most rental housing programs and personal finance experts use.

NAR's national Housing Affordability Index stood at 198.2 in November, based on the relationship between median home price, median family income and average mortgage interest rate.