Welcome to the land of the 1%. Where you’ll find lawyers, and doctors, and business executives. And while they 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 1.31x the national median and household incomes are 1.93x 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 $106,229.
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The Richest Neighborhoods In Rochester For 2025
- Cobbs Hill
- Browncroft
- Genesee Valley Park
- Ellwanger-Barry
- Culver-Winton
- Park Avenue
- Homestead Heights
- Strong
- East Avenue
- Central Business District
What’s the richest neighborhood to live in Rochester for 2025? 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 $678,888. 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.
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Richst Neighborhoods In Rochester For 2025 By Median Income
| Rank | Neighborhood | Median Household Income |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cobbs Hill | $106,229 |
| 2 | Browncroft | $85,448 |
| 3 | Genesee Valley Park | $73,884 |
| 4 | Ellwanger-Barry | $63,772 |
| 5 | Culver-Winton | $62,846 |
| 6 | Park Avenue | $62,473 |
| 7 | Homestead Heights | $61,461 |
| 8 | Strong | $54,846 |
| 9 | East Avenue | $54,360 |
| 10 | Central Business District | $53,569 |
| 11 | South Wedge | $48,928 |
| 12 | 19th Ward | $47,842 |
| 13 | Northland-Lyceum | $45,906 |
| 14 | Highland | $44,419 |
| 15 | Swillburg | $44,152 |
| 16 | Maplewood | $43,339 |
| 17 | Corn Hill | $39,924 |
| 18 | Atlantic-University | $38,480 |
| 19 | Beechwood | $37,591 |
| 20 | Charlotte | $37,386 |
| 21 | Pearl-Meigs-Monroe | $35,344 |
| 22 | Lyell-Otis | $30,686 |
| 23 | Brown Square | $25,179 |
| 24 | Edgerton | $22,720 |
| 25 | Dutchtown | $22,697 |
| 26 | Genesee-Jefferson | $22,632 |
| 27 | Mayor’s Heights | $22,113 |
| 28 | North Marketview Heights | $22,091 |
| 29 | Charles House | $20,658 |
| 30 | Upper Falls | $20,382 |
| 31 | South Marketview Heights | $20,220 |
| 32 | Susan B Anthony | $19,618 |
| 33 | Plymouth-Exchange | $19,068 |
| 34 | Best | $18,122 |
How We Determined The Wealthiest Neighborhoods In Rochester For 2025
Every city has its 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 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 Saturday Night Science, we researched income data from the Census and BLS for every neighborhood in Rochester.
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 wealthiest neighborhood in Rochester.
The richest neighborhoods in Rochester are Cobbs Hill, Browncroft, Genesee Valley Park, Ellwanger-Barry, Culver-Winton, Park Avenue, Homestead Heights, Strong, East Avenue, and Central Business District.
The poorest neighborhood? That would be Best.
The poorest neighborhoods in Rochester are Best, Plymouth-Exchange, Susan B Anthony, South Marketview Heights, and Upper Falls.
We updated this article for 2025. This is our tenth time ranking the most affluent neighborhoods to live in Rochester.
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