These Are The 10 Richest Neighborhoods In Reno, NV For 2019


We used science and data to determine which neighborhoods in Reno are home to the 1%.

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Richest Neighborhoods In Reno

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 Reno has to offer. Where houses go for over 1.27x the national median and household incomes are 1.45x the national median.

But where exactly in Reno do the richest of the rich people live? That would be South Reno where the median income is a cool $130,959.

Here’s a look at the top 10 richest neighborhoods in Reno out of 8 for 2019:

  1. South Reno (Homes)
  2. Northwest (Homes)
  3. Southwest (Homes)
  4. North Valleys (Homes)
  5. South Central (Homes)
  6. East Reno (Homes)
  7. Old Northwest-West University (Homes)
  8. Northeast (Homes)

Summing up the median income of those 10 neighborhoods adds up to $439,306. 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 Reno.

For more Reno reading, check out the best neighborhoods in Reno and the worst neighborhoods in Reno.

Or, for living around Reno, out the best Reno suburbs and the worst Reno suburbs.

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How We Determined The Most Well To Do Neighborhoods In Reno For 2019

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?

We ranked every neighborhood in Reno by median income from highest to lowest. The neighborhood with the highest median income, South Reno, was named the richest neighborhood in Reno.

The poorest neighborhood? That would be Northeast.

Now a look at how all the neighborhoods in Reno ranked.

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Detailed List Of The Richest Neighborhoods In Reno For 2019

Rank Neighborhood Median Household Income
1 South Reno $79,827
2 Northwest $69,906
3 Southwest $68,371
4 North Valleys $55,478
5 South Central $48,901
6 East Reno $41,066
7 Old Northwest-West University $39,924
8 Northeast $35,833

About Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar has been in the real estate business for almost ten years now. He originally worked for Movoto Real Estate as the director of marketing before founding HomeSnacks.

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