Raw data: Richest and poorest cities in the US

19 thoughts on “Raw data: Richest and poorest cities in the US”

1. Five Parrots in a Shoe November 16, 2023 – 10:31 am at

   It isn't just McAllen. Texas has three of the bottom five poorest cities.
2. Crissa November 16, 2023 – 11:02 am at

   Santa Cruz, wooo.

   Their lines for these are always so arbitrary. Marin is literally richer, but Santa Cruz weirdly doesn't get to count their farms.
3. ProgressOne November 16, 2023 – 11:13 am at

   To compare more accurately, you have to adjust for cost of living in each city. Rich cities then tend to get poorer and poor cities tend to get richer.
4. msobel November 16, 2023 – 11:20 am at

   Thank you for playing Spot the Confederacy.
   1. gs November 16, 2023 – 1:41 pm at

      Ha ha ha! Burn!
5. J. Frank Parnell November 16, 2023 – 11:24 am at

   How can Seattle be the nineth richest? According to Fox News it’s a hell hole full of homeless drugies supporting themselves by carjacking with the only government being Sharia law provided by local gangs of Muslim terrorists.
6. sonofthereturnofaptidude November 16, 2023 – 11:31 am at

   Cape Cod is a CITY?
   1. marcel proust November 16, 2023 – 12:08 pm at

      I was going to say the same damn thing. It's a geographic feature, also a county that includes 15 TOWNS (i.e., not a single city). It is smaller than the median county in MA.
   2. Jasper_in_Boston November 16, 2023 – 7:35 pm at

      Cape Cod is a CITY?

      Kevin's clearly using the term to refer to metros areas. Cape Cod is Barnstable County. I think the MSA includes Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, too. I mean, I'm aware of no "city" named Silicon Valley, either (but I am aware of the San Jose-Santa Clara MSA).
7. Jumbo64 November 16, 2023 – 11:40 am at

   Silicon Valley is not a city. It includes the cities of Cupertino, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Redwood City, Santa Clara, and probably others I am forgetting. San Jose is the biggest, so that should be the one included in this comparison.
   1. gs November 16, 2023 – 1:42 pm at

      Or you could cut to the chase and just put "Atherton."
      1. Jasper_in_Boston November 16, 2023 – 7:39 pm at

         Or you could cut to the chase and just put "Atherton."

         Atherton isn't part of the SJ/SC MSA, but (being in San Mateo County) falls under SF.
   2. Jasper_in_Boston November 16, 2023 – 7:36 pm at

      Silicon Valley is not a city.

      Thanks, Captain Obvious! Perhaps Kevin is using the term "city" to refer to MSAs?
      1. Jumbo64 November 16, 2023 – 8:35 pm at

         As you noted, the MSA is San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. There is no Silicon Valley MSA. The other places listed in the charts are actual cities.
8. bluegreysun November 16, 2023 – 12:31 pm at

   Re: Midland TX, I’ll speculate that it’s a lot of oil field workers who are relatively highly paid (for hard and dangerous work) and not a lot of their spouses and children. Per capita income is divided by these non-working or less often working people, so, it’s higher where there are few families.
9. SC-Dem November 16, 2023 – 12:37 pm at

   This chart does not compare wealth, it compares average per capita income. So the numbers go up if you have a nice cluster of CEOs and such like folks. Per the US Census Bureau, the median per capita income in Midland county was $43,572 in 2021.

   Not bad, but not $143K. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/midlandcountytexas/PST045222
10. Steve Stein November 16, 2023 – 2:46 pm at

    Hilarious that "Cape Cod" is a city.
    1. gs November 16, 2023 – 4:07 pm at

       .... and "Silicon Valley."
11. MindGame November 16, 2023 – 3:16 pm at

    I guess at least people are paid well to live in that hell hole. Every other place in that top-15 list has at least some other appealing quality besides money, often several, but not Midland!

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