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This interactive visualization displays median family wealth in the US from 1983 to 2016, broken down by race. A scatterplot with animated circles overlays a bar chart, and a dropdown menu lets users switch between White, Black, and Hispanic households. The code uses D3.js v6 with `scaleLinear`, `transition`, and custom reusable chart functions (`scatterPlot`, `barPlot`, `menu`) to handle data filtering and smooth updates. Data comes from the Urban Institute and US Census via the TidyTuesday project, normalized to 2016 dollars.
AI-generated descriptionExploring median family wealth in the US (1983-2016)
Data
The data originally comes from the Urban Institue & US Census. This was collated into .csv files as part of the #TidyTuesday project.
The above chart explores the median family wealth of US households over the period 1983-2016 split by race.
The figures have been normalized to 2016 rates so as to make them comparable and not be affected by inflation.
Observations
The median White family wealth is almost 8x of that of Black and Hispanic families. Thus, there is a significant disparity in the ditribution of wealth and this has not improved over the years.
From 2007 to 2010, there was a sharp fall in the median family wealth which was most pronounced for White families. This seems to be driven by the 2007-08 housing market crash and the subsequent recession.
Historically, the median family wealth of Black housholds has been higher than that of Hispanic households. However, over the last ten years, this trend seems to be reversing.