You could easily drive through this leafy Silicon Valley suburb without realizing you were in America’s richest neighborhood. From the road, it’s all high brick walls and opaque gates. It takes Google Maps to get a glimpse of what lies behind. Satellite images of Atherton, California –- where the average household income just blew past half a million dollars -- reveal the sprawling homes of tech billionaires and sports stars, studded with tennis courts and pools. For the fourth straight year, Atherton topped Bloomberg’s Richest Places annual index. With an average household income of more than $525,000, it became the first and so far only community to top the half-million dollar mark since Bloomberg started compiling the index in 2017.
It's meaningless. A town of 7K skewed demo bc of that fact. I was born and raised in a former title holder (Kenilworth, IL). North Shore town with <3K.
Agree. Many LA neighborhoods of similar sizes not counted because they are part of LA or other larger cities. Probably same elsewhere.
Maybe it's because https://nypost.com/2019/11/22/new-jersey-is-the-smartest-state-in-america-yes-really/