Cohousing-L Mailing List: age distribution, Berkeley cohousing, 2005

[Raines Cohen (rc2-coho-L]

Since people are always asking these sort of things, here's the 2005 age 
distribution for Berkeley cohousing, based on the birthday list posted in 
the CH (the one where people get to write down what kind of cake or other 
observance they would like, and then others (or sometimes the birthday 
person him or herself) sign up to bake or perform the ceremony):

AGE
36
74
75
65
66
 4
48
51
8
52
 4
42
13
45
50
50
22
64
17
53
36
54
49
36
39
23
 4
2
43
54

so, with a little number-crunching (and removing two 20-something kids 
who have grown up in the community but moved offsite yet still come back 
to do laundry and/or visit and eat the occasional meal so they're still 
on the birthday list), we can conclude that for the residential 
population at large (excluding two nonparticipating room-renting 
housemates who didn't make this list):

n = 27
mean    40.5
median  46.5
standard deviation 22.0

If we look at just adults (and, coincidentally, all unit legal owners 
plus our associate member who lives nextdoor):

        mean    51.5
        median  50

min 36 (n = 3)
max 75

standard deviation 11.7

The last two units to turn over (in the past two years) have moved this 
number down slightly, both adding one household member in the upper 30s 
and one in the upper 40s. Losing the two twenty-somethings (one had 
already been away at college for some  years) moved it up.

Raines

Raines Cohen <my initials,2,dash,coho,dash,L at my first name .com>

  Member, Swan's Market Coho [Oakland, CA] <http://www.swansway.com/>
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too late!

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of need at our last meeting makes ongoing budget discussions seem simple.

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