#T1Alamo
unincorporated, Contra Costa County · 14,488 peopleMedian household income·2.1% in poverty
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Alamo, #1 on this list · Photo: Richard Niewiroski Jr. · CC BY-SA 4.0Alamo (tied with 17 more) has the highest median household income of California’s 846 towns of 2,500+: $250,000+ a year (Census ACS 2020–2024). The typical town here is at $94,871; 372 of the 846 top $100,000.
Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024: median household income. Each figure is an estimate with a margin of error (in the row); towns whose ranges overlap may not truly differ. The survey reports incomes over $250,000 only as “$250,000+”. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#T1Median household income·2.1% in poverty
#T1Median household income·5.3% in poverty
Median household income·6.5% in poverty
Median household income, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 32 towns here).
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Alamo (unincorporated, Contra Costa County): its median household income is $250,000+. Atherton ($250,000+) and Camino Tassajara ($250,000+) follow.
By median household income in the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (2020–2024), highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T), including every town at the survey’s $250,000+ ceiling. How grades work.
The list covers the towns of 2,500+ that TownRatings grades with an ACS income figure (846 in California). Smaller towns show their income on their own page. Every town is on the California page.
Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.