A good way to learn about what kinds of people live in Ipswich now is to look at how its population has changed over the last decade.
In all the graphs below the red line or circle or bar is from the prior 1990 census and the blue line or circle or bar is from the recent 2000 census. The line charts are all histograms that focus on a distribution through the population. The doughnut (multiple pie) charts identify the components that add up to a full 100% circle.
The overall population of Ipswich --whether counted as individuals, households, or households with children-- grew slightly over the decade. The population of Ipswich in 2000 wasn't a whole lot more than the population in 1990.
Here also is a chart of changes in Ipswich's population over the last century rather than just the last decade.
The disribution of incomes in Ipswich families --at least as crudely measured by the census-- didn't change a whole lot from 1990 to 2000. The data suggests there are now more high end incomes among Ipswich families, but the census data tops out before it can shed very much light onto the suggestion it makes.
Income data for 1990 has been scaled up to "2000 constant dollars" so the two income distributions can be compared directly without having to keep any confounding factors in mind.
The most significant changes in the population of Ipswich between 1990 and 2000 are highlighted by the age distributions. A peak in the population just past retirement age in 1990 has now disappeared. Middle aged adults have unsurprisingly gotten about ten years older. The population of young adults has dropped. And there is a larger group of young children rather than very young children.
The data for 1990 has been scaled up to exactly match the total population in 2000 so the two distributions can be compared directly without having to keep any confounding factors in mind.
Adults in Ipswich have fairly similar levels of education as they did in 1990. Many have high school diplomas. Quite a few have some college, and a few have two year college diplomas. Many have four year college diplomas, and some have advanced college degrees. Note the two distribution lines cross just once, showing a general ratcheting up. This ratcheting up is especially noticeable looking at those with at least a high school diploma perhaps with some college, which was most typical in 1990 but somewhat less so in 2000.
About the same proportion of Ipswich households included children in 1990 as in 2000.
Ipswich is full of houses that are much much older than what the census expected, so most of our houses are in their last category. Duh.
The majority of households in Ipswich own their own (or at least the bank owns them:-). This tendency has grown even a little further in the last decade.
The distributions of the cost of a house in Ipswich in 1990 and in 2000 are fairly similar. There is an unclear hint that there are more very expensive houses in Ipswich than there were a decade ago.
House cost data for 1990 has been scaled up to "2000 constant dollars" so the two cost distributions can be compared directly without having to keep any confounding factors in mind.
About the same proportion of people lived in the same house five years before the 1990 census as did five years befor the 2000 census.
Of the people that moved into Ipswich, many came from fairly close by. The tendency in 2000 was to move slightly farther, with considerably more inmigration coming from somewhere else in Massachusetts and not quite so much from nearby communities in Essex County.
Of all the people living in Ipswich, many were born fairly close by. Not insignificant proportions were born further away though, even in a foreign country. The proportions didn't change very much between 1990 and 2000.
These comparisons are based on data from the U.S. decennial censuses. Although most other socioeconomic data is collected or estimated every few years and is available from various sources, income data forms a bottleneck. Even if it's obtained from somewhere else, all relevant income data is ultimately based on the U.S. census and is only available in a useful form for 1990 and 2000. To obtain all the above and more similar census data:
2000 Summary File 3
or the 1990 Summary Tape File 3 hyperlink
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Wherever dollar values are compared (incomes, house costs, etc.) data obtained from the census has been scaled to "2000 constant dollars" so the distributions can be compared directly with all other factors artificially held constant. Dollar values from the 2000 census were used as is, and dollar values from the 1990 census were multiplied by the inflation factor of 1.2998 for 1990 to 2000. Wherever populations are compared (ages, etc.) data obtained from the census has been scaled to the total 2000 population. Population values from the 2000 census were used as is, and population values from the 1990 census were multiplied by the growth factor of 1.0938 for 1990 to 2000.
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