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View Poll Results: How wealthy is your ZIP code? ( See http://zipwho.com )
Top Quarter (Median Income percentile between 75 and 99) 4 44.44%
2nd Quarter (Median Income percentile between 50 and 74) 1 11.11%
3rd Quarter (Median Income percentile between 25 and 49) 1 11.11%
Bottom Quarter (Median Income percentile between 0 and 24) 3 33.33%
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A Poll for Americans Only . . .

Whether you like it or not, the neighborhood where you live can be used as a measure of social standing. For example, someone who lives in Beverly Hills 90210 is assumed to be among the wealthiest in the country. How does your ZIP code measure up?

See ZipWho.com for Median Income percentile rankings.

Top Quarter (Median Income percentile between 75 and 99)
2nd Quarter (Median Income percentile between 50 and 74)
3rd Quarter (Median Income percentile between 25 and 49)
Bottom Quarter (Median Income percentile between 0 and 24)
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Whole crap. 21? Is that bad?
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87, that can't be right...
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you have different code in USA than in our country.
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77...I'm surprised, I knew my area was pretty decent, but I wouldn't have thought top quarter.
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My ranking is 21 but i'm not a bit suprised. I live in the "used to be drug infested ghetto but slowly improving" part of town.
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Mine is 95, not too surprised I think my county in general is one of the wealthiest in the country.
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I live in a city that used to be big, it had all the leather mills and stuff like that, but now there all gone, and now it's not all that good. like half of the people are scumbags, sorry for using that term but it's the truth.
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LET'S ROB AJ.
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