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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 Rochester has to offer. Where houses go for over 0.89x the national median and household incomes are 1.51x the national median.
But where exactly in Rochester do the richest of the rich people live? That would be Cobbs Hill where the median income is a cool $83,062.
Here's a look at the top 10 richest neighborhoods in Rochester out of 32 for 2022.
The Richest Neighborhoods In Rochester For 2022
What's the richest neighborhood to live in Rochester for 2022? According to the most recent census data, Cobbs Hill looks to be the richest Rochester neighborhood to live in.
Summing up the median income of those 10 neighborhoods adds up to $534,167. 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 Rochester. 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 Rochester reading, check out the best neighborhoods in Rochester and the worst neighborhoods in Rochester. Or, for living around Rochester, out the best Rochester suburbs and the worst Rochester suburbs.
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Richst Neighborhoods In Rochester For 2022 By Median Income
| Rank | Neighborhood | Median Household Income< |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cobbs Hill | $83,062 |
| 2 | Browncroft | $59,790 |
| 3 | Park Avenue | $57,052 |
| 4 | Homestead Heights | $52,330 |
| 5 | Culver-Winton | $51,785 |
| 6 | Ellwanger-Barry | $49,988 |
| 7 | Strong | $48,747 |
| 8 | East Avenue | $46,852 |
| 9 | Swillburg | $45,023 |
| 10 | Atlantic-University | $39,538 |
| 11 | Corn Hill | $37,973 |
| 12 | Highland | $37,308 |
| 13 | Charlotte | $36,917 |
| 14 | 19th Ward | $36,499 |
| 15 | South Wedge | $36,400 |
| 16 | Pearl-Meigs-Monroe | $35,997 |
| 17 | Central Business District | $35,651 |
| 18 | Maplewood | $34,491 |
| 19 | Northland-Lyceum | $34,388 |
| 20 | Beechwood | $30,428 |
| 21 | Lyell-Otis | $27,936 |
| 22 | Brown Square | $22,826 |
| 23 | Genesee-Jefferson | $22,632 |
| 24 | North Marketview Heights | $22,091 |
| 25 | Dutchtown | $21,620 |
| 26 | Charles House | $20,658 |
| 27 | South Marketview Heights | $20,220 |
| 28 | Susan B Anthony | $19,618 |
| 29 | Plymouth-Exchange | $19,068 |
| 30 | Mayor's Heights | $18,939 |
| 31 | Best | $18,122 |
| 32 | Upper Falls | $16,813 |
How We Determined The Wealthiest Neighborhoods In Rochester 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 Rochester by median income from highest to lowest. The neighborhood with the highest median income, Cobbs Hill, was named the richest neighborhood in Rochester.
The poorest neighborhood? That would be Upper Falls.
Now a look at how all the neighborhoods in Rochester ranked.
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