The little town of Westlake, north of Fort Worth, boasts the highest average annual household income ($526,590) among all North Texas neighborhoods. That’s good enough for 12th richest in the nation based on an analysis by geographer Stephen Higley, who’s ranked the top 1,000 based on 2006-2010 Census Bureau data.
The very top of the list is occupied by ritzy suburbs of New York, D.C., Miami, and Los Angeles. Only Chicago has an inner-city neighborhood among the 10 richest. “The Golden Triangle” of Greenwich, Conn., outdoes everybody with a mean household income of $614,242.
Here’s the entire list of the 35 Dallas-Fort Worth neighborhoods that appear in the Higley 1,000:
1: Westlake (Westlake)
Mean Household Income: $526,590, Higley 1000 #122: Greenway Parks (Dallas)
Mean Household Income: $511,549, Higley 1000 #153: Westover Hills (Westover Hills)
Mean Household Income: $385,047, Higley 1000 #694: Old Preston Hollow (Dallas)
Mean Household Income: $338,351, Higley 1000 #1585: Bluffview West (Dallas)
Mean Household Income: $335,935, Higley 1000 #1686: Highland Park (Highland Park)
Mean Household Income: $330,032, Higley 1000 #1887: Oak Tree (Dallas)
Mean Household Income: $327,123, Higley 1000 #2048: Volk Estates-Windsor Place (University Park)
Mean Household Income: $323,486, Higley 1000 #2189: Stratford Manor-Armstrong Fairway (University Park)
Mean Household Income: $322,282, Higley 1000 #22410: Northaven Park (Dallas)
Mean Household Income: $313,955, Higley 1000 #25111: Preston Hollow (Dallas)
Mean Household Income: $310,471, Higley 1000 #26912: LakeSide on Preston (Plano)
Mean Household Income: $306,168, Higley 1000 #28613: Willow Bend (Plano)
Mean Household Income: $304,801, Higley 1000 #29614: Preston Royal (Dallas)
Mean Household Income: $304,679, Higley 1000 #29915: Lakewood (Dallas)
Mean Household Income: $301,825, Higley 1000 #32016: Bent Tree-Oakdale (Dallas)
Mean Household Income: $298,930, Higley 1000 #33317: Timarron (Southlake)
Mean Household Income: $298,068, Higley 1000 #33618: Timberlake-Princeton Park (Southlake)
Mean Household Income: $286,828, Higley 1000 #41819: Bella Lago-River Hills (Flower Mound)
Mean Household Income: $281,696, Higley 1000 #45620: Brook Meadows-Brighton Oaks (Colleyville)
Mean Household Income: $278,204, Higley 1000 #48821: Cheyenne Village-Starwood West (Frisco)
Mean Household Income: $277,646, Higley 1000 #49522: Russwood Acres (Dallas)
Mean Household Income: $275,175, Higley 1000 #52323: Versailles-Cambridge Place (Southlake)
Mean Household Income: $271,015, Higley 1000 #56624: University Heights-University Hills (University Park)
Mean Household Income: $266,284, Higley 1000 #62025: Rivercrest Country Club (Fort Worth)
Mean Household Income: $265,238, Higley 1000 #63226: Starwood East-Sterling Ranch (Frisco)
Mean Household Income: $265,076, Higley 1000 #63527: Kings Ridge-Schoal Creek West (Plano)
Mean Household Income: $262,018, Higley 1000 #66728: Stonebriar North (Frisco)
Mean Household Income: $261,486, Higley 1000 #67629: Preston Trail Golf Club-Bent Tree Country Club (Dallas)
Mean Household Income: $260,066, Higley 1000 #70030: Gentle Creek Country Club-Whitley Place (Prosper)
Mean Household Income: $255,529, Higley 1000 #76631: The Dominion-Highland Oaks (Southlake)
Mean Household Income: $247,070, Higley 1000 #87832: Denham Village-Whiffletree (Plano)
Mean Household Income: $245,842, Higley 1000 #89633: Mansfield South (Mansfield)
Mean Household Income: $242,732, Higley 1000 #96034: Bedford (Bedford)
Mean Household Income: $241,303, Higley 1000 #98735: Loma Linda-Preston Place (University Park)
Mean Household Income: $240,133, Higley 1000 #998
Higley defined neighborhoods as groups of contiguous Census block groups with a similar socioeconomic status, in this case a household income of at least $200,000 to be included in the analysis. I’m surprised to see Greenway Parks as the top representative for Dallas. I wonder how exactly Higley defined the boundaries of that neighborhood.
(H/T Atlantic Cities)