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Here's the most affluent town in every state
By Andy Kiersz
September 12, 2014 12:34 PM
The geographic distribution of income and wealth in the U.S. is always a fascinating topic.
One of the many types of geography the Census Bureau tabulates figures for are "places."
These are either legally incorporated cities or towns or
Census-designated statistical equivalents. In this map, we consider
places with at least 1,000 residents, according to the 2008-2012 American Community Survey.
Using
income estimates from the ACS, we found the place with the highest
median household income in each state. The map shows where the affluent
towns are, and the median income in each (click here for larger version of map):
Many
of the affluent communities are wealthy suburbs of major cities such as
Scarsdale, New York, and Darien, Connecticut, outside of New York City,
and Chevy Chase, Maryland, and Great Falls, Virginia, near Washington,
D.C. They all tend to be fairly small with populations ranging from
about 1,000 (our chosen lower cutoff) to about 18,000.
Here's a table with the 50 towns and their median incomes:
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