ByMontana, Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey was sourced. With these chosen data points, a four-factor scoring system was constructed:
You should be aware of a few oddities that the Census Bureau does with its data. For certain factors, the Census sets upper limits on the numbers, so there’s no exact value for certain factors. Take for example median household income: The Census Bureau has an upper limit of “$250,000+”, and will list exact values only for figures below that. For median home value, the upper limit is “$2,000,000+”. For median richest city in Alaska in this ranking is Gateway, a CDP a little under 40 miles northeast of Anchorage. There’s a little over 2,000 households in this suburb. More than 30% of households in this town earn $200,000 or more. The average household income in Gateway is the highest in the state, at $166,988. The median household income is $137,150 is the third highest. The median home value, as reported by the Census Bureau, is $436,200, which is among the top five. The property taxes paid, with the median being $4,993, is the highest in the state.
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