Rich Block, Poor Block: How Do Neighborhoods In San Anselmo and Fairfax Compare?

Drive through San Anselmo and Fairfax and you might notice that some neighborhoods are more affluent than others. But just how wide is the disparity between different parts of town?

A new data-based website, Rich Blocks, Poor Blocks provides some answers to that question. The site uses U.S. census information compiled from the 2007-2011 American Community Survey to show median household income and monthly rents by census tract.

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The highest neighborhoods in San Anselmo are the blocks north of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, which report median incomes of $130,000 a year.

On the east side of town households make more than $81,000 annually.

The homes near Sir Francis Drake High School and Center Boulevard have annual incomes of $78,000.

In Fairfax, the median annual incomes vary from $75,000 on the north side of town to more than $107,000 on the south side.

The range for median household income in California is $28,000 to $125,000 a year. The statewide middle-class income range is $53,264 to $68,300.

To see the data mapped out census tract by census tract, visit the Rich Block, Poor Blocks website.

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