Brownstoner 2009 Survey Results
We’ve owed you some results since we ran our latest reader survey a couple of weeks ago. Basically, there was very little difference between the results of the recent survey and the one we conducted back in 2007, but it’s still fun to look at. – 45% have been reading since before 2007 …
We’ve owed you some results since we ran our latest reader survey a couple of weeks ago. Basically, there was very little difference between the results of the recent survey and the one we conducted back in 2007, but it’s still fun to look at.
– 45% have been reading since before 2007
– 80% check the site at least once a day
– 45% check the site several times a day or more
– Male/female split was exactly 50/50
– 46% are in their 30s, 25% are in their 40s
– More than 95% have a college degree or higher
– Bankers and lawyers were the two highest-represented professions
– More than 60% work in Manhattan
– 70% make at least $100,000 per year
– 90% live in Brooklyn, 4% in Manhattan
– 20% of Brooklyn dwellers in Park Slope
– 59% own their own place: 53% houses, 26% co-ops, 21% condos
– 50% of renters planning to buy within next two years
– 74% of owners have fixed rate mortgages, 11% have none at all
– 30% think the Brooklyn market has already bottomed
– 50% think the market will bottom at some point in the next year
– Park Slope most favored nabe for investment over next 3-5 years
– 58% of home owners spend at least $2,500 a year on upkeep
– 49% would be willing to pay a premium for LEED certified construction
– 53% of readers have used the Forum in the past year to find a contractor
– 55% own a car
– 55% are childless, 22% have just one child, 23% have two or more
– 59% of readers with school-age children send them to public school
– 74% go out to dinner at least 3 times a month
– 35% order take-out at least 10 times a month
– 50% have used the Restaurants section to find a restaurant
– 72% have a Facebook account, 24% have a Twitter account
We’ll drop some more detailed graphics on you over the coming weeks.
Funny thing…I mostly looked at sex as recreation. It’s just now I’m deciding to begin to breed…or at least try to.
…and yes I’m a *gulp* wall streeter, and a homeowner. Maybe a trait of the profession?
btw, I didn’t fill out the survey.
“So some may have bred long time ago and answered 0 or not.”
This strikes me as a strange and unlikely response.
Curious as to the number of respondants who work as chimney sweeps. (sorry – had a dream about them last night)
“Wow, people here must be spending too much time surfing streeteasy and not enough on streetsleezy. I mean come on, stop reading Montrose Morris and get it on people. Start breeding!”
I’ve been accused of many things, but being birth control has never been one of them, until now. Something else to add to my list of accomplishments – Montrose Morris, the Deterrent!
🙂
The survey to me pointed up an issue of strategic planning – where does Mr. B want this blog to go? How does he envision it growing, changing, gaining influence, expanding?
I was reading a review of a book about someone renovating a Harlem townhouse, and wondered if there is anything comparable to this site for the Manhattanite. Is a “global” Brownstoner.com 10 years away? Or at least a city-wide focused one?
At osme point it will grow, or I’ll move on and stop reading, or the subject matter will change or I’ll lose interest in the subject matter. I immediately thought of all these things when I saw that survey up.
as far as children question…Open to interpretation…
Question was how many children do you have and followed up by school question. Some folks with grown children may have said 0 and some may have said whatever (whether you consider offspring children or not when the are adult age).
So some may have bred long time ago and answered 0 or not.
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Wow, people here must be spending too much time surfing streeteasy and not enough on streetsleezy. I mean come on, stop reading Montrose Morris and get it on people. Start breeding!
GUH-ROSS. no thank you, very much. what is with some of you nazi-ish pro baby people? gack. there are more of us childless people than ones with children. DEAL WITH IT! and with Swing Flu on the rise, our numbers are likely to increase. (hmm my last remark may have been a little tasteless, but yours was too tell people to breed!)
*rob*
DH said… “it just proves my hypothesis that the only people who can afford to buy in Brooklyn nowadays are bankers and lawyers.”
This is totally true. We have to remember that a lot of the folks that currently own do so because they bought a while back — including buying their INITIAL property a while back (10 or 15 year ago at least). i.e., before NYC went fucking nuts.
The only folks that can actually afford to buy anything now have to be making FAR more than $100k. The market is just destroying any chance of folks that are “scrimping and saving” for years and years — the price increases are just going to outstrip anything these well-intentioned folks are trying to do. Save $10k a year (which in itself is amazing to me, but folks can do it)… get a nice war chest of $100k in 10 years, but lo and behold, the cost of entry in 10 years if $150k. It’s really just absurd.
As I’ve said before, this ain’t sustainable and all of these houses for $2-3 million are gonna hit a HARD ceiling in the near future… 10-ish years. There just won’t be any more people “trading up” or tapping into a big hunk of inheritance or making $500,000 a year.
I’m totally getting a neighborhoodie printed up with “OTHER” on it. That’s a lot easier to fit than “Prospect Lefferts Gardens”.