Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty ImagesThe mainstream media commonly assumes that affluent Americans like to cluster in the dense cores of cities. In our 53 largest metro areas, barely 3% of full-time employed high earners (over $75,000 a year) live downtown, according to Wendell Cox’s City Sector Model, while another 11.4% live in inner ring neighborhoods around the core. In contrast, about as many (14.1%) live in exurbs while suburbs, both older and new ones, are home to 71.5% of such high earners. Other big counties with high concentrations of high earners include No. These include, not surprisingly, the California counties of Santa Clara (fourth place) and San Mateo (ninth), which make up Silicon Valley.

Source: Forbes October 03, 2017 16:18 UTC