median

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The average house price in Wales is £213,000, six times the median annual average earnings of £35,800.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

The March result beat the median forecast for a 42.9% increase from a Wall Street Journal survey.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The median amount American workers have saved for retirement is only $955 when including people who have nothing saved at all, a recent report from the National Institute on Retirement Security found.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

The time it takes those applicants to obtain building permits has steadily grown from a median of 127 days in December, when The Times first calculated the figure, to 155 days currently.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Fifty-six percent of the users were men, and the median age range for all users was twenty-one to thirty-five.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt