Racial Integration of the Wealthiest 1000 Places in America

Wealth & Privilege: Ten Exclusive Enclaves

Let’s face it, Beverly Hills, the Hamptons, and Martha’s Vineyard are fatally overexposed. This is an article about ten tiny exclusive places that most Americans have never heard of…. and that is just the way the residents want it. The ten places in this article are virtually unknown beyond their immediate geographic area and extremely [...]

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Posted in Exclusive Neighborhoods, General on Jan 2nd, 2010, 2:43 pm by Stephen Higley     

Asian-Americans Flock to America’s Wealthy Suburbs

The increase in the number of American families that claimed an income of over $200,000 between 2000 and the ACS of 2006-8 is stunning. Although the total number of households in the United States only increased by 8.0%, the number earning over $200,000 skyrocketed by 88.2%. The number of Asian-Americans earning over that amount increased a stunning 181.5%

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Posted in General, The US Census on Dec 5th, 2009, 9:23 pm by Stephen Higley  1 comment   

The Elite 5% in America’s Highest Income Places

The American Community Survey (2006-2008) has included a new table that identifies the mean household income of the highest 5% of households for communities with more than 20,000 residents. The statistics have some interesting patterns when compared to the mean household incomes of ALL households in a given place (The top 50 places on that [...]

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Posted in The US Census, Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2009, 9:57 am by Stephen Higley     

How a Sampling of Wealthy Suburbs Voted: Obama vs. McCain

Ferreting out election returns at the local level is fraught with difficulty as very few states publish the results on the web and the geography of precincts and boxes often is different from municipal boundaries. The five states that are in the table below consisted of three states that publish on the web (Minnesota, Wisconsin, [...]

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Posted in General, Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2009, 10:05 am by Stephen Higley  3 comments   

The Elite 100: America’s Highest Income Neighborhoods

The 100 neighborhoods with the highest incomes in the United States have similar racial make-up as the Higley 1000. There is a slightly higher percentage of Non-Hispanic Whites (91.4%) and significantly fewer Asian-Americans and African-Americans than in the larger list. Hispanics were better represented primarily on the strength of five Miami neighborhoods with high Cuban [...]

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Posted in General, Racial Diversity on Jan 7th, 2009, 10:14 am by Stephen Higley  23 comments   

Darien, Connecticut: Wealthiest Town with over 20,000

The United States Census Bureau has recently announced a wealth of statistics on jurisdictions with over 20,000 people in the most recent American Community Survey.  Compiled from data over a three year period (2005-2007), Darien, Connecticut easily came in as the wealthiest town in America. Of course, the devil is in the definitions and the [...]

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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 14th, 2008, 6:19 pm by Stephen Higley     

Los Angeles: The Platinum Triangle & Beyond

The fragmentation of the 80 wealthiest Los Angeles neighborhoods has it’s own unique pattern that is primarily influenced by the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Monica Mountains. The core area is generally referred to as “West Los Angeles” and extends from the West Hollywood Hills to Castellammare, located adjacent to Malibu on the western city [...]

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Posted in General, Metro Briefs on Dec 6th, 2008, 9:24 am by Stephen Higley  1 comment   

Chicago’s North Shore

I had the good fortune to first move to Chicago in 1972 when the city was on the cusp of its rebirth. It was an exciting time to be a young advertising account executive in one of the world’s great cities that was about to reclaim the attention of the country as a dazzling jewel [...]

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Posted in Metro Briefs, Racial Diversity on Jun 22nd, 2008, 9:29 am by Stephen Higley  4 comments   

The Wealthy Neighborhoods of Birmingham, Alabama

An Overview of the Metro Area
Birmingham has indeed come a long way in its relatively brief history. Born in the aftermath of the Civil War (1871), the city quickly burgeoned into the iron and steel industry’s “Pittsburgh of the South” by the early 20th Century. The city’s explosive growth in its first forty years earned [...]

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Posted in Metro Briefs, Racial Diversity on Jun 9th, 2008, 11:48 am by Stephen Higley  17 comments   

Tucson: A Beautiful, Segregated Desert Oasis

With good reason, Tucsonans love to sneer at Phoenix: too big, too ugly and with too much out of control growth and the concomitant dreadful traffic problems. (oh yes, and too Conservative too!). However, as the city of Tucson has recently passed the 500,000 population mark and the county is approaching a million residents, Tucson [...]

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Posted in Metro Briefs, The US Census on Jun 8th, 2008, 8:11 pm by Stephen Higley     

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