CA Zip Codes by Top 5% Average Household Income($1M+), 2022

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by dimondpark

I really like zip code data because they allow us to showcase big city neighborhoods.

But it's also important to remember that zip codes can vary WILDLY in size.


Take these two from the IL list:

60029 (Golf, IL) - 546 people (5% is 27 people)

60614 (Lincoln Park) - 71,701 people (5% is 3,585 people)



Not even close to apples-to-apples there. The top 5% over $1M in a place the size of Lincoln Park is light years more impressive than some tiny little enclave like Golf, IL.

A minimum population requirement of like 5,000 people might be useful here to get rid of the ridiculously tiny zip codes.

[dimondpark]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

But it's also important to remember that zip codes can vary WILDLY in size.


Take these two from the IL list:

60029 (Golf, IL) - 546 people (5% is 27 people)

60614 (Lincoln Park) - 71,701 people (5% is 3,585 people)



Not even close to apples-to-apples there. The top 5% over $1M in a place the size of Lincoln Park is light years more impressive than some tiny little enclave like Golf, IL.

A minimum population requirement of like 5,000 people might be useful here to get rid of the ridiculously tiny zip codes.

Very true, I wish the Census bureau would actually do neighborhoods, that would be amazing.

[dimondpark]

This is part of 2023's data that just came out---

Just 2 criteria here:
1 UAs Population 200,000+
2 UAs Average HH Income Top 5%($400K+)

Urban Areas by Average Household Income, Top 5%, 2023:
$975,392----San Jose, CA
$954,496----Bridgeport-Stamford, CT-NY
$866,651----Concord-Walnut Creek, CA
$841,472----San Francisco-Oakland, CA
$810,711----Bonita Springs-Estero, FL( Naples)
$761,996----Mission Viejo-Lake Forest-Laguna Niguel, CA
$722,922----Thousand Oaks, CA
$708,251----Livermore-Pleasanton-Dublin, CA
$685,909----New York-Jersey City-Newark, NY-NJ
$673,338----Boston, MA-NH
$671,283----Seattle-Tacoma, WA
$654,982----Washington-Arlington, DC-VA-MD
$640,178----Charlotte, NC-SC
$636,699----Austin, TX
$616,411----The Woodlands-Conroe, TX
$601,629----San Diego, CA
$594,974----Barnstable Town, MA
$594,252----Navarre-Miramar Beach-Destin, FL
$588,764----Sioux Falls, SD
$580,878----Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL
$580,334----Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, FL
$580,165----Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
$573,786----Indio-Palm Desert-Palm Springs, CA
$566,473----Chicago, IL-IN
$560,262----Denver-Aurora, CO
$564,864----McKinney-Frisco, TX
$559,373----Nashville-Davidson, TN
$558,325----Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
$557,246----Anchorage, AK
$550,850----Minneapolis-St Paul, MN
$548,069----Birmingham, AL
$547,952----Atlanta, GA
$540,668----Durham, NC
$540,069----Nashua, NH-MA
$536,438----Atlantic City, NJ
$534,065----Philadelphia, PA-NJ-DE-MD
$532,497----Omaha, NE-IA
$528,639----Raleigh, NC
$527,401----Houston, TX
$526,666----Santa Clarita, CA
$525,769----Antioch, CA
$521,022----Reno, NV
$519,470----Santa Rosa, CA
$518,560----Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
$513,213----Honolulu, HI
$512,293----Portland, OR-WA
$508,503----Jacksonville, FL
$507,790----Salt Lake City, UT
$505,556----Charleston, SC
$503,850----Worcester, MA
$501,681----Denton-Lewisville, TX
$498,820----Trenton, NJ
$495,094----Richmond, VA
$494,886----Boise, ID
$494,797----Sacramento, CA
$494,163----Tampa-St Petersburg, FL
$493,780----Cincinnati, OH-KY
$489,883----Baltimore, MD
$485,283----Portland, ME
$476,155----Pittsburgh, PA
$475,957----Columbus, OH
$475,909----Ann Arbor, MI
$474,437----St Louis, MO-IL
$472,330----Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO
$470,841----Wilmington, NC
$470,612----Harrisburg, PA
$470,325----Orlando, FL
$469,792----Des Moines, IA
$467,455----Gainesville, FL
$467,364----Hartford, CT
$466,522----Indianapolis, IN
$466,200----Providence, RI-MA
$465,768----Baton Rouge, LA
$465,272----Lancaster-Manheim, PA
$464,917----Kansas City, MO-KS
$464,767----Madison, WI
$464,739----New Haven, CT
$462,196----Bremerton, WA
$461,589----Milwaukee, WI
$457,383----Fort Collins, CO
$456,886----Lincoln, NE
$456,278----Knoxville, TN
$454,463----New Orleans, LA
$453,915----Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV
$450,279----Oxnard-San Buenaventura, CA
$447,213----Provo-Orem, UT
$442,799----Tulsa, OK
$439,110----Fresno, CA
$438,609----Chattanooga, TN-GA
$437,775----Colorado Springs, CO
$434,145----Lexington-Fayette, KY
$433,955----Virginia Beach-Norfolk, VA
$432,206----Greensboro, NC
$432,196----Tallahassee, FL
$431,549----Round Lake Beach-McHenry-Grayslake, IL-WI
$430,566----Detroit, MI
$430,419----Kennewick-Richland-Pasco, WA
$428,678----Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY
$428,188----Bel Air-Aberdeen, MD
$425,577----Fargo, ND
$424,669----Daytona Beach-Palm Coast-Port Orange, FL
$424,521----Greenville, SC
$424,187----Lafayette, LA
$424,054----Kalamazoo, MI
$422,899----Appleton, WI
$422,684----Cape Coral, FL
$422,142----Port St Lucie, FL
$421,873----Palm Bay-Melbourne, FL
$421,535----Amarillo, TX
$421,286----Pensacola, FL
$421,118----Lakeland, FL
$419,989----Gulfport-Biloxi, MS
$419,116----College Station-Bryan, TX
$418,360----Rock Hill, SC
$418,078----Grand Rapids, MI
$412,128----Oklahoma City, OK
$409,036----Lubbock, TX
$409,022----Springfield, MA-CT
$405,862----Huntsville, AL
$404,164----South Bend, IN-MI
$404,013----Riverside-San Bernardino, CA
$403,807----Columbia, SC
$403,029----Spokane, WA
$403,573----Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC
$402,587----Victorville-Hesperia-Apple Valley, CA
$402,488----Columbus, GA-AL
$400,469----Temecula-Murrieta-Menifee, CA[/QUOTE]

[Bonsai Tree]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

These two are extremely tiny and very weird downstate zip codes.

62954 only has 220 households, so the top 5% is only 11 households.

61884 only has 470 households, so the top 5% is only 24 households.

I guess it's conceivable that you could have a handful of land barons down in the corn belt who do very well for themselves, but these are the very definition of tiny-ass podunk places in the exact middle of nowhere that do not at all fit in with the typical understanding of a "wealthy area".


The other IL zip codes are all in Chicagoland and all make perfect sense.

Funny seeing White Heath on here (61884). I went to school in Champaign and am very familiar with the area. The town of White Heath itself is very, very poor, but 61884 also follows part of the Sangamon River (to the north and west). The Sangamon is the only scenic natural feature close to Champaign-Urbana, so lots of wealthy individuals have houses near the river. That's where the wealthy top 5% comes in.


https://maps.app.goo.gl/rcFyeMmfMjSUo1of9

^^Here's White Heath

https://maps.app.goo.gl/P7nu27smmDsmJEyd9

^^This is the area along the Sangamon River

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Got it. Here are the $1m+ zip codes in Brooklyn:

11201 (Brooklyn Heights): $1,139,311
11215 (Park Slope): $1,060,646
11217 (Boerum Hill, Park Slope, Fort Greene): $1,167,046
11231 (Carroll Gardens & Red Hook): $1,063,582

No $1m+ zips found in Bronx, Queens, or Staten Island. Westchester and Long Island below:

Westchester County:

10504 (Armonk): $1,421,387
10506 (Bedford): $1,328,598
10507 (Bedford Hills): $1,246,837
10510 (Briarcliff Manor): $1,199,979
10514 (Chappaqua): $1,260,982
10528 (Harrison): $1,053,863
10533 (Irvington): $1,122,154
10536 (Katonah): $1,116,450
10538 (Larchmont): $1,451,477
10576 (Pound Ridge, Scotts Corners): $1,597,958
10577 (Purchase): $1,537,218
10580 (Rye): $1,626,225
10583 (Scarsdale): $1,710,264


Nassau County:

11023 (Great Neck): $1,043,819
11030 (Manhasset): $1,455,821
11050 (Port Washington): $1,064,275
11545 (Glen Head): $1,346,122
11557 (Hewlett): $1,032,599
11559 (Lawrence): $1,093,445
11560 (Locust Valley): $1,400,368
11568 (Westbury): $1,921,323
11576 (Roslyn): $1,243,491
11579 (Sea Cliff): $1,204,180
11753 (Jericho): $1,039,638
11765 (Mill Neck): $1,715,761
11771 (Oyster Bay): $1,335,248
11791 (Syosset): $1,168,898

Suffolk County:

11733 (Setauket): $1,014,166
11743 (Huntington): $1,025,042
11935 (Cutchogue): $1,225,066
11954 (Montauk): $1,134,379
11957 (Orient): $1,503,837
11963 (Sag Harbor): $1,310,322
11968 (Southampton, Tuckahoe): $1,573,436
11976 (Water Mill): $1,168,391
11978 (Quogue): $1,185,466