What do the Household Income, Household Size, and Workers per Household values listed below the Region heading represent?
Household Income, Household Size, and Workers per Household all represent values for the Region. One important detail of the H+T Affordability Index is that transportation costs are calculated for the “average” household in the region, or the household represented by these three values. By doing this, impacts of these variables on transportation costs are controlled for, and differences in costs resulting from neighborhood characteristic are highlighted. When values are shown as percents of income, this income value is used. Therefore, the values can be interpreted as the cost impact of a given location on the average household in the region.
