A Look at How the Neighborhoods Stack Up

By Kevin Robinson in Miscellaneous on Feb 9, 2010 5:00PM

A new website backed by MSN Money, Citibank, and Morningstar is using data from the U.S. government, from anonymous and aggregated spending transactions from Citi, and from third party data providers, to give users a snapshot of spending data across the United States. Users can look at data by state, county, city, and ZIP code, and can also narrow results down by demographic (age, household status and income). We thought it would interesting to take a look at a (small) selection of ZIP codes in Chicago, on the North, West and South sides of the city.

Although the most recent data available is from October of 2009, users do get at least a cursory idea of what general spending looks like across broadly defined categories. And while the sparse data is hardly sufficient to draw real conclusions from an academic standpoint, it does offer some insight into who's spending where.

How does your neighborhood and demographic stack up against everyone else in your neighborhood, other neighborhoods, and the rest of the city? Let us know in the comments. [Bundle, via Consumerist.]