Bloomberg released its list of wealthiest towns in the US based on household income. Connecticut made a strong showing, along with New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and California.
|
Town |
Mean |
Households |
|
Darien |
$341,090 |
6,703 |
|
Old Greenwich |
$336,692 |
2,190 |
|
Westport |
$304,439 |
9,820 |
|
Riverside |
$290,904 |
2,741 |
|
Southport |
$287,175 |
773 |
|
Greenwich |
$210,840 |
5,624 |
|
Sharon |
$194,186 |
229 |
|
Ridgefield |
$188,413 |
3,072 |
|
West Simsbury |
$183,099 |
830 |
|
Newtown |
$156,763 |
691 |
The Bloomberg Richest Places List includes has four CT communities: Darien, Old Greenwich, Westport, and Riverside. Darien Connecticut is the only town in the top ten with an average household income of $341,090.
According to Bloomberg, the Silicon Valley town that billionaires Eric Schmidt of Google and Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg have called home is America’s richest community for the third year in a row. The town Atherton, California, whose household income averaged $450,696 in 2017, topped the Bloomberg Richest Places annual index.
More than half the top 100 richest places in America were either in the New York City area or California. A handful of Midwest and Southwest areas made the top 20.
For the 2019 Bloomberg Richest Places full data set, click here.
Wealth is concentrated in six counties: Westchester in New York, Bergen in New Jersey, Fairfield in Connecticut, Cook County of Chicago, Los Angeles County, and Montgomery County, Maryland.
Methodology
Bloomberg evaluated inflation-adjusted household data for all U.S. places, as defined by the Census, with a minimum of 2,000 households and ranked them based on average household income. Nearly 6,250 met the criteria.
Average household income excluded households without any type of income.
