{"id":39400,"date":"2018-07-12T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T16:59:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-07-11T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T18:14:13","slug":"incomes-of-whites-blacks-hispanics-and-asians-in-the-u-s-1970-and-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2018\/07\/12\/incomes-of-whites-blacks-hispanics-and-asians-in-the-u-s-1970-and-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Incomes of whites, blacks, Hispanics and Asians in the U.S., 1970 and 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The charts below show the distributions of white, black, Hispanic and Asian adults in the U.S. by their incomes in 1970 and 2016. The first set of charts shows the income distribution for a given group, such as Hispanics, in these two years. The second and third sets of charts compare the income distributions of blacks, Hispanics and Asians with the income distribution of whites for 2016 and 1970, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adults in each racial and ethnic group are divided into 81 groups with incomes ranging from $0-2,499, $2,500-4,999, $5,000-7,499, and so on up to the highest income category of $200,000 or greater. Each chart shows the share of adults of a given race or ethnicity with incomes in the stated range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;how-many-live-on-how-much-1970-and-2016&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-many-live-on-how-much-1970-and-2016\">How many live on how much, 1970 and 2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_1_White_640px.png\" alt=\"Share of whites with a given level of income, 1970 and 2016\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_2_Black_640px.png\" alt=\"Share of whites with a given level of income, 1970 and 2016\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_3_Hispanic_640px.png\" alt=\"Share of whites with a given level of income, 1970 and 2016\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_4_Asian_640px.png\" alt=\"Share of whites with a given level of income, 1970 and 2016\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;how-blacks-hispanics-and-asians-compared-with-whites-in-2016&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-blacks-hispanics-and-asians-compared-with-whites-in-2016\">How blacks, Hispanics and Asians compared with whites in 2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_5_BlackWhite2016_640px.png\" alt=\"Share of whites and blacks with a given level of income, 2016\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_6_HispanicWhite2016_640px.png\" alt=\"Share of whites and Hispanics with a given level of income, 2016\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_7_AsianWhite2016_640px.png\" alt=\"Share of whites and Asians with a given level of income, 2016\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;how-blacks-hispanics-and-asians-compared-with-whites-in-1970&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-blacks-hispanics-and-asians-compared-with-whites-in-1970\">How blacks, Hispanics and Asians compared with whites in 1970<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_8_BlackWhite1970_640px.png\" alt=\"Share of whites and blacks with a given level of income, 1970\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_9_HispanicWhite1970_640px.png\" alt=\"Share of whites and Hispanics with a given level of income, 1970\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_10_AsianWhite1970_640px.png\" alt=\"Share of whites and Hispanics with a given level of income, 1970\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIncome\u201d refers to what is afforded a person by the combined resources of his or her household, whether the person had personal earnings or not. Thus, people\u2019s incomes are represented by their household\u2019s income adjusted for household size. All members of a household have the same income, which is expressed in 2016 dollars for both years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The distributions are based on the adult, civilian household population, less adults living in households for which half or more of its income is imputed (allocated) by the U.S. Census Bureau. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2018\/07\/12\/methodology-15\">Methodology<\/a>&nbsp; for details).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charts below show the distributions of white, black, Hispanic and Asian adults in the U.S. by their incomes in 1970 and 2016. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"layout-centered","format":"standard","meta":{"sub_headline":"","sub_title":"","_prc_public_revisions":[],"_ppp_expiration_hours":0,"_ppp_enabled":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","relatedPosts":[],"reportMaterials":[],"multiSectionReport":[],"package_parts__enabled":false,"package_parts":[],"datacite_doi":"","datacite_doi_citation":"","_prc_seo_qr_attachment_id":0,"spoken_article_player_enabled":true,"displayBylines":true,"footnotes":"","prc_watchers":[724],"_prc_fork_parent":0,"_prc_fork_status":"","_prc_active_fork":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"bylines":[918,986],"collection":[],"datasets":[],"level_of_effort":[],"primary_audience":[],"information_type":[],"_post_visibility":[],"formats":[458],"_fund_pool":[],"languages":[],"regions-countries":[],"research-teams":[519],"workflow-status":[],"class_list":["post-39400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","bylines-anthony-cilluffo","bylines-rakesh-kochhar","formats-report","research-teams-social-trends"],"label":false,"post_parent":0,"word_count":235,"canonical_url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2018\/07\/12\/incomes-of-whites-blacks-hispanics-and-asians-in-the-u-s-1970-and-2016\/","art_direction":{"A1":{"id":48798,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_Featured-Image.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_Featured-Image.png?w=564&h=317&crop=1","width":564,"height":317,"chartArt":false},"A2":{"id":48798,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_Featured-Image.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_Featured-Image.png?w=268&h=151&crop=1","width":268,"height":151,"chartArt":false},"A3":{"id":48798,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_Featured-Image.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_Featured-Image.png?w=194&h=110&crop=1","width":194,"height":110,"chartArt":false},"A4":{"id":48798,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_Featured-Image.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_Featured-Image.png?w=268&h=151&crop=1","width":268,"height":151,"chartArt":false},"XL":{"id":48798,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_Featured-Image.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_Featured-Image.png?w=640&h=320&crop=1","width":640,"height":320,"chartArt":false},"social":{"id":48798,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_Featured-Image.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/07\/ST_18.06.28_Inequality_Featured-Image.png?w=640&h=320&crop=1","width":640,"height":320,"chartArt":false}},"_embeds":[],"watchers":[{"id":724,"name":"msolorzano","email":"msolorzano-temp@pewresearch.org","slack_user_id":"","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f86893a13d28433dcc6c4512a48b171b84ea93b30b59a30560a70570b12b1dec?s=48&d=mm&r=g"}],"table_of_contents":[],"report_materials":[{"type":"printEngineBeta","label":"Print Engine (Beta)","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2018\/07\/12\/incomes-of-whites-blacks-hispanics-and-asians-in-the-u-s-1970-and-2016\/print"}],"report_pagination":{"current_post":null,"next_post":null,"previous_post":null,"pagination_items":[]},"parent_info":{"parent_title":"Incomes of whites, blacks, Hispanics and Asians in the U.S., 1970 and 2016","parent_id":39400},"materialsOrdered":[],"chaptersOrdered":[],"partsOrdered":[],"partsEnabled":false,"datacite_doi":"","prc_seo_data":{"title":"Incomes of whites, blacks, Hispanics and Asians in the U.S., 1970 and 2016","description":"The charts below show the distributions of white, black, Hispanic and Asian adults in the U.S. by their incomes in 1970 and 2016. 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