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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 San Francisco has to offer. Where houses go for over 7.75x the national median and household incomes are 2.95x the national median.
But where exactly in San Francisco do the richest of the rich people live? That would be Potrero Hill where the median income is a cool $162,259.
Here's a look at the top 10 richest neighborhoods in San Francisco out of 34 for 2022.
The Richest Neighborhoods In San Francisco For 2022
What's the richest neighborhood to live in San Francisco for 2022? According to the most recent census data, Potrero Hill looks to be the richest San Francisco neighborhood to live in.
Summing up the median income of those 10 neighborhoods adds up to $1,381,386. 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 San Francisco. 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 San Francisco reading, check out the best neighborhoods in San Francisco and the worst neighborhoods in San Francisco. Or, for living around San Francisco, out the best San Francisco suburbs and the worst San Francisco suburbs.
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Richst Neighborhoods In San Francisco For 2022 By Median Income
| Rank | Neighborhood | Median Household Income< |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Potrero Hill | $162,259 |
| 2 | West Of Twin Peaks | $153,714 |
| 3 | Pacific Heights | $147,213 |
| 4 | Presidio Heights | $137,831 |
| 5 | Seacliff | $134,269 |
| 6 | Noe Valley | $133,927 |
| 7 | Marina | $129,602 |
| 8 | Haight-Ashbury | $129,402 |
| 9 | Castro-Upper Market | $127,427 |
| 10 | Twin Peaks | $125,742 |
| 11 | Glen Park | $112,125 |
| 12 | Inner Sunset | $112,050 |
| 13 | Diamond Heights | $111,872 |
| 14 | Bernal Heights | $109,995 |
| 15 | South Of Market | $101,937 |
| 16 | Financial District | $101,601 |
| 17 | Lakeshore | $100,506 |
| 18 | Russian Hill | $100,085 |
| 19 | Inner Richmond | $98,249 |
| 20 | Mission | $97,270 |
| 21 | Outer Sunset | $97,155 |
| 22 | Parkside | $92,322 |
| 23 | Outer Richmond | $88,321 |
| 24 | Western Addition | $88,050 |
| 25 | Outer Mission | $86,739 |
| 26 | North Beach | $83,033 |
| 27 | Nob Hill | $79,561 |
| 28 | Ocean View | $78,895 |
| 29 | Excelsior | $74,182 |
| 30 | Crocker Amazon | $66,706 |
| 31 | Bayview | $63,752 |
| 32 | Visitacion Valley | $62,162 |
| 33 | Downtown | $43,555 |
| 34 | Chinatown | $35,896 |
How We Determined The Wealthiest Neighborhoods In San Francisco 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 San Francisco by median income from highest to lowest. The neighborhood with the highest median income, Potrero Hill, was named the richest neighborhood in San Francisco.
The poorest neighborhood? That would be Chinatown.
Now a look at how all the neighborhoods in San Francisco ranked.
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