How far can a child born poor here rise?

The Opportunity Atlas followed twenty million Americans born between 1978 and 1983 from the neighbourhood they grew up in to their tax returns in their mid-thirties. For each census tract it reports the average income rank reached by children whose parents were at the 25th percentile, roughly a household making $27,000 in today's money. The map shows that rank, population-weighted to each ZIP: 50 means those children reached the national middle, 30 that they stayed near the bottom. The card adds the share of those children who were in jail or prison on census day 2010. Outcomes are for the people who grew up there thirty years ago, not for today's children, and tracts that split since 2010 are left out.

1,128 of 1,233 ZIPs have data; median 42.4 percentile.

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Map of Ohio by Upward mobility

Source

Opportunity Atlas (Chetty, Friedman, Hendren, Jones and Porter, Census Bureau): tract outcomes for children born 1978 to 1983, population-weighted to ZIPs through 2020 census blocks

Opportunity Atlas · Opportunity Insights data

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