Highest-Income ZIP Codes

Published ZIP profiles ranked by median household income, below the survey’s $250,000 ceiling

Where household incomes are highest among the ZIP areas AreaProfile publishes, leaving out those at the American Community Survey’s $250,000 top code, where the survey reports a ceiling rather than a figure that can be ranked.

50 locations · Calculated October 8, 2026 · Data reflects 2024 ACS 5-Year · Download CSV

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50 places, ranked nationally.

#	ZIP area	Median income	City	Population
1	20817 — Bethesda, MD	$249,332	Bethesda	37,454
2	22207 — Arlington, VA	$245,745	Arlington	35,479
3	94539 — Fremont, CA	$243,552	Fremont	52,396
4	94708 — Berkeley, CA	$234,923	Berkeley	11,947
5	20816 — Bethesda, MD	$232,656	Bethesda	18,140
6	02459 — Newton, MA	$227,594	Newton	18,449
7	06831 — Stamford, CT	$227,159	Stamford	15,210
8	02482 — Wellesley, MA	$226,250	Wellesley	11,051
9	63131 — Town and Country, MO	$225,493	Town and Country	17,935
10	02090 — Norwood, MA	$223,125	Norwood	16,318
11	20105 — Stone Ridge, VA	$219,123	Stone Ridge	37,639
12	94065 — Redwood City, CA	$215,955	Redwood City	11,673
13	90274 — Palos Verdes Estates, CA	$215,925	Palos Verdes Estates	25,059
14	94552 — Castro Valley, CA	$212,605	Castro Valley	14,506
15	22181 — Oakton, VA	$211,911	Oakton	15,760
16	92679 — Coto de Caza, CA	$211,250	Coto de Caza	30,818
17	95054 — Santa Clara, CA	$207,895	Santa Clara	25,704
18	94087 — Sunnyvale, CA	$207,742	Sunnyvale	57,767
19	22182 — Wolf Trap, VA	$205,108	Wolf Trap	27,783
20	20833 — Olney, MD	$204,375	Olney	7,860
21	07481 — Franklin Lakes, NJ	$203,988	Franklin Lakes	17,050
Also rank 21, tied	94939 — Larkspur, CA	$203,988	Larkspur	7,315
23	94043 — Mountain View, CA	$203,298	Mountain View	33,176
24	20169 — Gainesville, VA	$203,051	Gainesville	28,089
25	07922 — New Providence, NJ	$202,944	New Providence	12,195
26	07041 — Short Hills, NJ	$202,750	Short Hills	7,532
27	33158 — Palmetto Bay, FL	$201,597	Palmetto Bay	5,960
28	63005 — Wildwood, MO	$198,469	Wildwood	19,779
29	98006 — Bellevue, WA	$198,150	Bellevue	40,009
30	21131 — Cockeysville, MD	$197,619	Cockeysville	7,141
31	94010 — Hillsborough, CA	$196,882	Hillsborough	43,025
32	75078 — Prosper, TX	$196,564	Prosper	53,011
33	92610 — Lake Forest, CA	$195,046	Lake Forest	12,867
34	94085 — Sunnyvale, CA	$192,417	Sunnyvale	24,024
35	21104 — Eldersburg, MD	$191,804	Eldersburg	6,052
36	11598 — Woodmere, NY	$190,074	Woodmere	13,599
37	21042 — Ellicott City, MD	$190,061	Ellicott City	43,327
38	66221 — Overland Park, KS	$190,000	Overland Park	25,550
39	63038 — Wildwood, MO	$186,450	Wildwood	7,107
40	94598 — Walnut Creek, CA	$186,225	Walnut Creek	27,206
41	01775 — Maynard, MA	$185,809	Maynard	7,165
42	91302 — Calabasas, CA	$185,636	Calabasas	25,569
43	85253 — Paradise Valley, AZ	$184,979	Paradise Valley	17,904
44	98077 — Cottage Lake, WA	$184,306	Cottage Lake	14,109
45	20882 — Damascus, MD	$184,136	Damascus	13,751
46	98021 — Bothell, WA	$183,786	Bothell	35,631
47	49301 — Forest Hills, MI	$183,125	Forest Hills	19,846
48	92007 — Encinitas, CA	$182,629	Encinitas	11,100
49	98004 — Bellevue, WA	$182,545	Bellevue	39,897
50	98033 — Kirkland, WA	$182,500	Kirkland	40,982

Methodology

Median household income from the ACS five-year estimates for the ZIP Code Tabulation Area. ZCTAs approximate USPS ZIP geography but are not identical to it.

None of the 49 neighboring pairs in this list are far enough apart to call a real difference. These figures come from the American Community Survey, which samples rather than counts, and for geographies this small the margin on an estimate is usually wider than the gap between one row and the next. Read this as the set of places that belong near the top on this measure, not as an order within it — the further apart two rows sit, the more the difference between them can be relied on.

Some entries here hold the same value and therefore the same rank. Where that happens the rank is printed once and the rows beneath it are left blank, because the order they appear in carries no meaning — there is nothing in the measurements to separate them.

What is excluded, and why

ZIP areas under 5,000 residents, any ZIP area outside the published profile set, and any ZIP area whose median household income sits at the ACS top code of $250,000 or more, where the survey publishes a ceiling rather than a figure that can be ranked.

The top 50 of the 3,013 ZIP areas that meet these criteria are listed.

Sources

U.S. Census Bureau — American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File) (2024)

Full details of how signals and the Area Score are calculated are on the methodology page, and how rankings like this one are built and reviewed is on the editorial policy page.