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Welcome to the land of the 1%. Where you'll find lawyers, and doctors, and business executives. And while they probably aren't made of ticky tacky, they are definitely made of money.
These are the wealthiest neighborhoods that Boston has to offer. Where houses go for over 3.88x the national median and household incomes are 1.7x the national median.
But where exactly in Boston do the richest of the rich people live? That would be Back Bay-Beacon Hill where the median income is a cool $93,684.
Here's a look at the top 10 richest neighborhoods in Boston out of 16 for 2022.
The Richest Neighborhoods In Boston For 2022
What's the richest neighborhood to live in Boston for 2022? According to the most recent census data, Back Bay-Beacon Hill looks to be the richest Boston neighborhood to live in.
Summing up the median income of those 10 neighborhoods adds up to $813,209. And that my friend, is more 0s than most of us will see in our bank account for a long, long time -- if we ever get that lucky. Continue on to find where your neighborhood ranks amongst the richest in Boston. Once you're done, you can look at the bottom of the story for a complete chart of every neighborhood we looked at from richest to poorest.
For more Boston reading, check out the best neighborhoods in Boston and the worst neighborhoods in Boston. Or, for living around Boston, out the best Boston suburbs and the worst Boston suburbs.
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Richst Neighborhoods In Boston For 2022 By Median Income
| Rank | Neighborhood | Median Household Income< |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back Bay-Beacon Hill | $93,684 |
| 2 | Central | $93,484 |
| 3 | Charlestown | $91,998 |
| 4 | West Roxbury | $91,763 |
| 5 | South Boston | $86,753 |
| 6 | Roslindale | $80,867 |
| 7 | Jamaica Plain | $75,652 |
| 8 | South End | $72,022 |
| 9 | Hyde Park | $65,408 |
| 10 | South Dorchester | $61,578 |
| 11 | Allston-Brighton | $61,281 |
| 12 | East Boston | $56,961 |
| 13 | North Dorchester | $56,252 |
| 14 | Fenway-Kenmore | $48,949 |
| 15 | Mattapan | $45,798 |
| 16 | Roxbury | $34,616 |
How We Determined The Wealthiest Neighborhoods In Boston For 2022
Every city has it's best neighborhoods -- where everyone wants to live -- and the worst neighborhoods -- where no one wants to live. And then you have the wealthiest neighborhoods, where no one can afford to live.
And by no one, we really mean you because there's always someone richer than you.
How do you quantify richer than you? We looked at one simple criterion:
Which neighborhoods have the highest median income?
Using census and extrapolated BLS data, we ranked every neighborhood based on income levels.
We ranked every neighborhood in Boston by median income from highest to lowest. The neighborhood with the highest median income, Back Bay-Beacon Hill, was named the richest neighborhood in Boston.
The poorest neighborhood? That would be Roxbury.
Now a look at how all the neighborhoods in Boston ranked.
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