Income inequality is usually shown by its negative: places below the poverty line, or some multiple. However, it shows up even in what are thought of as the wealthier parts of our County. For example, this map doesn't just show the southeast part has more high-income individuals. It also shows only a quarter to a third of individuals in the wealthier part get over $75,000 a year. The take-away: someone with a $50,000 income may feel short-changed if living in the southeast part of the County; blessed if living in the southwest.

There are more rigorous proofs of how important education is to higher income. However, the eye can see it by comparing this map on high school dropouts with the one above, mapping what most consider a clear sign of wealth. In almost half the geographic expanse of our County, a fifth of adults are trying to get to such an income level--without a high school education. If we graded Counties by opportunities education creates, Duval/Jax would get a D, if not F, on education. (For more on this, see the Opportunity Index based on Census data.)

Most discussion of how to improve educational opportunity generates more heat than light about  'school choice', meaning taxes subsidize private schools as well as funding the public system. This map shows where, in our County, the Legislature's push for private schools has penetrated most into the public system. Again by eyeball, not rigorous analytics, this seems to be mostly in the Census Tracts that are not at either extreme in the two previous maps.