NJ has one of the top 10 wealthiest towns in the entire U.S.

It’s not as if we didn’t know that New Jersey is an extremely expensive state to live in. In fact, it is one of the most expensive in the country.

After all, you’ve got to be making plenty of money to survive here. With property taxes being what they are, home prices skyrocketing and just the overall high cost of living, it’s no doubt that New Jersey has to be home to some of the wealthier cities in the country.

And for some reason, the ones that come to mind are Mendham, Upper Saddle River, Colts Neck, or Deal.

But according to worldpopulationreview.com, Bloomberg did a study that ranked the richest towns in the U.S. And the study says it’s none of the aforementioned. It’s actually Essex County’s Short Hills.

This Bloomberg study took household data from 6,250 cities that were ranked based on their inflation-adjusted average household income. New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and California dominated the wealthiest cities list. And on the top 100 wealthiest towns list, the bottom the lowest yearly average salary was $200,000.

For comparison's sake, the median household income in the United States during the last census was $61,937. In Short Hills, the average yearly household income is $367,491

America’s richest community, according to the study, has remained number one on the list for three years in a row. That is the Silicon Valley city of Atherton California, home of Eric Schmidt of Google and Cheryl Sandberg of Facebook. In 2017, the median annual income there was listed as $450,696.

Other New Jersey towns that made the top 50 list in this report are Upper Saddle River, Upper Montclair, North Caldwell and Glen Ridge, but those towns seem poor in comparison to Short Hills, having annual median salaries in the paltry mid to upper $200,000’s.

Check out the top 10 richest cities in the United States:

1️⃣ Atherton, CA ($450,696)

2️⃣ Scarsdale, NY ($417,335)

3️⃣ Cherry Hills Village, CO ($394,259)

4️⃣ Los Altos Hills, CA ($386,174) 

5️⃣ Hillsborough, CA ($373,128)

6️⃣ Short Hills, NJ ($367,491)

7️⃣ Highland Park, TX ($358,994) 

8️⃣ Darien, CT ($341,090)  

9️⃣ Bronxville, NY ($340,448)

🔟 Glencoe, IL ($339,883)

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