Wealth of scarsdale
# Wealth of scarsdale

Known as one of the most affluent suburbs of New York City and the United States, Scarsdale has regularly placed highly in rankings of wealthy places. In 2013, it was ranked 1st in CNN Money's list of "top earning towns" with a median family income close to $300,000. In a 2014 study, looking at more granular individual neighborhoods, Scarsdale's Heathcote neighborhood ranked the 14th richest in the nation while the Fox Meadows-Greenacres neighborhood ranked 66th. In 2017, 24/7 Wall Street ranked Scarsdale as the richest town in America. In 2019 and 2020 Bloomberg ranked Scarsdale as the 2nd-wealthiest place in the United States behind only Atherton; before that, in 2017 and 2018 it was ranked the 3rd-wealthiest. In a 2022 ranking of the "20 Richest Neighborhoods in America" that counted Scarsdale as a single neighborhood, it ranked 5th nationally. In a 2023 study looking at median household income of all census-designated places in the US, Scarsdale's $516,371 ranked 13th overall and 2nd (behind only Atherton) using the more common definition of "places" with at least 2000 households.

Scarsdale school district is consistently ranked the 1st wealthiest school district in America.

Scarsdale has ranked as a center of wealth for generations: ranking first by income in the 1970 census (among places with at least 2000 households), and having many of its census tracts ranked very highly in the 1950 census.

* ↑ Top-earning towns - Scarsdale, NY (1) - Money Magazine
* ↑ "The 25 Richest Neighborhoods in America". Business Insider.
* ↑ "The 25 Richest Neighborhoods in the New York City Suburbs". Business Insider.
* ↑ "America's Richest (and Poorest) Towns – 24/7 Wall St". Retrieved 2022-12-03.
* ↑ "These Are the Wealthiest Towns in the U.S." Bloomberg News. February 13, 2019. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
* ↑ "In America's Richest Town, $500k a Year is Now Below Average". Bloomberg.com. February 20, 2020.
* ↑ "These Are the 100 Richest Places in America". Bloomberg.com.
* ↑ "This is Where America's Wealthiest Live". Bloomberg.com.
* ↑ "The 20 Richest Neighborhoods in America in 2022". May 25, 2022.
* ↑ Hoff, Madison. "The 20 most affluent places in the US". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
* ↑ "These Are the Wealthiest School Districts Across America, Study Finds". April 30, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
* ↑ "NHGIS".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
