100 Wealthiest Zip Codes in the US

[Alta California]

An eye-opening look into where the mega-rich actually are (at least the ones that pay taxes and have not heard of "off-shore tax shelters").

Somewhere in Fresno, CA is #11

Other surprises: Chattanooga is #13, followed by some zip code in Dayton. 90210? Not there, which is another nail in the coffin for Beverly Hills's reputation.

I apologize for the table formatting but click below for the source site.
http://wealth.mongabay.com/tables/10...zip_codes.html
State City Code Returns Gross Income Return
NEW YORK New York 10104 14 41,677 $2,976,929
NEW YORK New York 10112 294 658,525 $2,239,881
FLORIDA Miami Beach 33109 191 416,400 $2,180,105
NEW YORK New York 10004 1,336 2,830,671 $2,118,766
NEW YORK New York 10153 84 131,666 $1,567,452
NEW YORK New York 10167 97 136,971 $1,412,072
NEW YORK New York 10158 44 61,565 $1,399,205
DELAWARE Wilmington 19898 22 29,836 $1,356,182
NEW YORK New York 10111 505 623,661 $1,234,972
NEW YORK New York 10151 25 24,887 $995,480
CALIFORNIA Fresno 93778 29 27,705 $955,345
CALIFORNIA Universal City 91608 55 49,963 $908,418
TENNESSEE Chattanooga 37450 19 16,446 $865,579
OHIO Dayton 45423 43 36,192 $841,674
NEW JERSEY Jersey City 07399 82 66,405 $809,817
TEXAS Corpus Christi 78471 31 24,255 $782,419
NEW YORK New York 10271 45 35,070 $779,333
NEW YORK New York 10154 124 94,885 $765,202
TENNESSEE Memphis 38157 20 15,160 $758,000
FLORIDA Tallahassee 32306 53 39,727 $749,566
ILLINOIS Northbrook 60065 132 95,749 $725,371
NEW YORK New York 10152 165 117,615 $712,818
TEXAS Houston 77010 247 165,539 $670,198
NEVADA Henderson 89011 68 45,258 $665,559
CALIFORNIA 94400 15 9,890 $659,333
PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh 15259 11 6,482 $589,273
NEW YORK New York 10106 108 62,452 $578,259
FLORIDA Fort Lauderdale 33394 35 19,786 $565,314
OKLAHOMA Tulsa 74121 27 15,127 $560,259
NEW YORK New Hyde Park 11042 176 97,925 $556,392
TEXAS Dallas 75247 264 144,841 $548,640
WASHINGTON Medina 98039 1,514 827,810 $546,770
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles 90067 3,141 1,717,098 $546,672
NEW YORK New York 10155 40 21,820 $545,500
NEW YORK Mill Neck 11765 360 195,928 $544,244
NEW YORK New York 10020 870 472,728 $543,366
CALIFORNIA Atherton 94027 3,738 2,009,863 $537,684
NEW YORK New York 10105 67 35,757 $533,687
NEW YORK New York 10110 573 305,684 $533,480
NEVADA Incline Village 89451 1,362 721,047 $529,403
MINNESOTA Minneapolis 55440 292 152,726 $523,034
NEVADA Glenbrook 89413 261 132,410 $507,318
NEW YORK New York 10165 381 190,223 $499,273
NEW JERSEY New Vernon 07976 761 378,923 $497,928
ILLINOIS Chicago 60604 409 196,073 $479,396
NEW JERSEY Morristown 07962 267 124,328 $465,648
CALIFORNIA Ross 94957 1,215 560,537 $461,347
FLORIDA Palm Beach 33480 6,564 3,003,143 $457,517
TENNESSEE Memphis 38124 140 63,690 $454,929
ILLINOIS Chicago 60606 1,064 481,759 $452,781
NEW JERSEY Oldwick 08858 471 213,245 $452,749
MARYLAND Gibson Island 21056 173 77,852 $450,012
KENTUCKY Lexington 40580 16 6,796 $424,750
FLORIDA Pensacola 32581 25 10,526 $421,040
MARYLAND Hunt Valley 21031 44 18,520 $420,909
MAINE 04000 16 6,691 $418,188
NEW YORK New York 10055 127 53,060 $417,795
CONNECTICUT Greenwich 06831 7,465 3,095,629 $414,686
CALIFORNIA Kentfield 94914 195 80,144 $410,995
CONNECTICUT Greens Farms 06436 181 74,382 $410,950
CALIFORNIA San Francisco 94111 2,459 1,004,803 $408,623
NEW JERSEY Far Hills 07931 1,564 627,651 $401,311
MASSACHUSETTS 02193 3,316 1,329,457 $400,922
NEW YORK Old Westbury 11568 1,785 711,275 $398,473
NEW YORK New York 10169 232 91,848 $395,897
MASSACHUSETTS Boston 02110 2,111 834,299 $395,215
VIRGINIA Roanoke 24005 10 3,944 $394,400
WYOMING Wilson 83014 997 391,420 $392,598
NEW YORK New York 10286 38 14,761 $388,447
TEXAS Dallas 75270 27 10,315 $382,037
UTAH Salt Lake City 84133 10 3,782 $378,200
NEW YORK New York 10166 190 71,347 $375,511
MASSACHUSETTS Boston 02205 221 82,786 $374,597
MISSISSIPPI Jackson 39272 51 19,085 $374,216
UTAH Salt Lake City 84145 16 5,987 $374,188
MISSOURI 65800 17 6,330 $372,353
MINNESOTA Minneapolis 55415 438 163,072 $372,311
TEXAS Dallas 75201 2,364 880,012 $372,255
CALIFORNIA Rancho Santa Fe 92067 4,912 1,827,795 $372,108
TEXAS Dumont 79232 18 6,635 $368,611
VIRGINIA Charlottesville 22905 327 120,295 $367,875
KENTUCKY Glenview 40025 90 33,032 $367,022
CALIFORNIA Portola Valley 94028 3,572 1,306,897 $365,873
OREGON Beaverton 97076 29 10,557 $364,034
MASSACHUSETTS Springfield 01115 50 18,124 $362,480
MINNESOTA Minneapolis 55402 842 302,974 $359,827
CONNECTICUT Hartford 06156 20 7,161 $358,050
NEW YORK Purchase 10577 1,620 574,247 $354,473
GEORGIA Sea Island 31561 241 84,634 $351,178
ILLINOIS Kenilworth 60043 1,315 457,641 $348,016
KENTUCKY Lexington 40583 178 61,702 $346,640
MISSOURI Earth City 63045 15 5,187 $345,800
NEW YORK New York 10175 74 25,487 $344,419
DELAWARE Montchanin 19710 217 74,585 $343,710
INDIANA Fort Wayne 46866 57 19,543 $342,860
OREGON Portland 97291 97 33,141 $341,660
FLORIDA Jacksonville 32232 62 21,027 $339,145
FLORIDA Boca Grande 33921 653 219,622 $336,328
NEW YORK New York 10100 35 11,697 $334,200
INDIANA Indianapolis 46282 12 3,994 $332,833

[Evergrey]

a pretty useless list as most of these zip codes number less than 50 returns

[illmatic774]

EXTREMELY surprised by the lack of Oakland County. or anything in Michigan, for that matter.
Somebody school me on that Dayton zip code.

I don't know how seriously I should take that list (Fresno, lol)

[BTinSF]

Maybe I don't understand this chart. How can you have an "adjusted gross income" of $27,000 and an "income per return" of $955,000? Everybody in the zip code would have to be the deduction champ of the world.

[seaskyfan]

If you go to the link you can rerun the list for areas with higher numbers of returns. Even if you just specify 1,000 returns you'll start seeing more of the usual suspects (Philly Main Line, etc.).

[BTinSF]

^^^The thing still comes up with a zipcode in Fremont CA (Fremont??) that has 21,000 returns with an average adjusted gross of $1.95 million. I'm just not believing that.

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by Evergrey

a pretty useless list as most of these zip codes number less than 50 returns

^ Not to mention that New York, NY has like a zillion zip codes

[WonderlandPark]

Originally Posted by Evergrey

a pretty useless list as most of these zip codes number less than 50 returns

Completely agree, the sample is waaaaaay to small to draw these sort of conclusions. The results are seriously skewed and showing that somewhere in Fresno is above Atherton and Beverly Hills or Malibu are not on there? How is Corpus or Dayton above Medina, home of Bill Gates, among other billionaires in a tiny area?

[seaskyfan]

I wonder if there's something that could be throwing it off - for example a tax preparation service?

[donybrx]

Cripes, manhattan's Upper East side 10021 (Park, Madison Avenues, etc.) doesn't appear there.... unless my focus is off....I don't see it...

[DJM19]

A misleading list to me.

[MayorOfChicago]

far too skewed to be useful

[b-s]

This list is an example of how statistics can be very misleading when used the "wrong" way.

[STERNyc]

Originally Posted by donybrx

Cripes, manhattan's Upper East side 10021 (Park, Madison Avenues, etc.) doesn't appear there.... unless my focus is off....I don't see it...

Neither did my old stomping ground. Carnegie Hill, UES, 10128 or 10028, to say even more, Carnegie's old stomping ground didn't even makes the list...

[STERNyc]

That said the Upper East Side is actually (now) one of the more affordable parts of Manhattan, that's why I had an apartment there.

[AKDallas]

This list has to be wrong.'cause the zipcode 75247 for Dallas is in one of the poorest area of west Dallas.

[WonderlandPark]

^^^ interesting, I just googled the Fresno zip and up comes one of the lowest income areas of the city, the area east of the 41/south of the 180 is where you go to return cans and get parts from the junkyard.

[BTinSF]

^^^Maybe the owner of the junkyard is the only one who files there.

[b-s]

Originally Posted by BTinSF

^^^Maybe the owner of the junkyard is the only one who files there.

[James Bond Agent 007]

I think those Delaware ones are cheating.