Social Mobility in the US



Everyone works hard for a chance at succeeding in this thing called life; or a chance to move out of poverty. We sought answers to questions on matters of social mobility using anonymous data collated by professors at Harvard. The data published by the Opportunity Insights Project, which contains intergenerational income mobility data from 2202 colleges and over 30 million college students from 1999-2013.

Colleges and State Mobility


Mobility rate is defined as the percentage of students who come from a poor family and become a rich adult. Using college data, we investigate how each college's mobility rate feeds into the state mobility rate. We map out all us states along with their state average to find out how each state compares with the other.

Curious? Scroll down to interact with the map. Click on each state to find out what mobility looks like; along with to see if your university makes the top 10 list!

Social Mobility Rates by State




Neighborhood Data: Individual Income vs Race & Parent Income


Using neighborhood data, we investigate how an individual income(excluding spouse income) changes given their race and their parent's income. High income is defined as 75th percentile incomes of all incomes, while medium income 50th percentile and low income 25th percentile.


Curious? Go scroll down to interact with the map. Toggle the filters on the right to find out how race and parent income affect child mobility on a neighborhood level!
Individual Income(Excluding spouse) at 35
PARENT INCOME

CHILD RACE

Social Mobility by College



This chart compares family income and student income broken down by college. Each dot represents a college and the color cooresponds to its tier. You can search for a college or click on the graph to see a specific college tier cluster.

Family income VS. student income at age 34


All Colleges