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    How has your (US) city fared compared to London?

    Just mucking about with my statistical database at the moment...

    I decided to compare the average incomes in certain US cities to the level in London for 1993 and 2003

    Here are some peliminary results;

    Average Income per head as % of London average for 1993 and 2003, arranged in order of population size

    New York: 140% 123%
    Los Angeles: 115% 100%
    Chicago: 123% 107%
    London: 100% 100%
    Philadelphia: 122% 111%
    Dallas: 115% 101%
    Miami: 119% 99%
    Washington: 147% 132%
    Houston: 113% 104%
    Atlanta: 114% 100%
    Detroit: 117% 108%
    Boston: 135% 129%
    San Fransisco: 146% 141%

    If you name a city for me i'll add it to the list
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    • #3
      How have British cities fared? Further, are these MSAs (i.e., includes the suburbs) or the cities within the city limits?
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      • #4
        The US data is for MSA's but there is no comparable data for the UK (that I can find) so I am using the Government's economic regions, London is the only one of these that is a city.

        I can find data for income levels in the UK at a smaller level, but only for 1997-99 not for 1993 or 2003.

        There is a very clear split between the south-eastern corner of the UK (basically everything south and east of a line drawn from Southampton to Oxford to The Wash) this part of the UK has seen it's average income go from 83% of the US level in 1993 to 96% in 2003 whilst the rest of the country went from 64% to 72% during that time - this area also accounts for around two thirds of the nation's population growth (despite having only one third of the total population).

        Other cities in the UK are much smaller than London (pop 7.5m), the second biggest are Birmingham and Merseyside (both around 2m) and my native Bristol having only around half a million.
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        • #5
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          • #6
            Re: How has your (US) city fared compared to London?

            Originally posted by el freako
            If you name a city for me i'll add it to the list
            Paris, France
            Moscow, Russia
            Hong Kong, China
            Beijing, China

            Berlin, Germany
            Tokyo, Japan
            Rome, Italy

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            • #7
              Hey, Boston had a fiscal crisis three years ago. Next year, we'll be farther up that list, guarenteed.
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              • #8
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                • #9
                  Interesting to compare these numbers against the cost of living.
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                  • #10
                    Mersyside is not really a city, Liverpool of couse is and is samller than Manchester,Leeds,Birmingham, Sheffield and Glasgow.
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                    • #11
                      Re: Re: How has your (US) city fared compared to London?

                      Originally posted by Pyrodrew

                      Paris, France
                      Moscow, Russia
                      Hong Kong, China
                      Beijing, China

                      Berlin, Germany
                      Tokyo, Japan
                      Rome, Italy
                      Well, I meant US cities as they are the ones I have the 1993 and 2003 data for.

                      However here are some estimates on relative average income based on the latest available year (again London=100%):

                      Paris: 92%
                      Moscow: no data
                      Hong Kong: 71%
                      Bejing: no data
                      Berlin: 54%
                      Tokyo: no data
                      Rome: no data
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                        • #13
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