re: Is College Station too nice?

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Where did Bloomberg and the U.S. Census go wrong? For some reason, they included college students in their calculations, which results in an eye-popping 39.4 percent poverty rate. Earlier this year, Bloomberg itself reported that College Station is America’s youngest city with an average age of 22.1 years, well below the national average of 36.8. In fact, more than half our population is between 15 and 24 years old.

Apparently, the dots were not connected.

According to the Census, 93,857 people called College Station home in 2010, which included a large majority of Texas A&M’s 49,000 students and a good share of Blinn’s 12,000 students. How many of those kids do you think had an actual income above the official poverty line of $10,830? Most would not be considered poor in the traditional sense, yet statistically they are classified as poor — or very poor. 

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