#1Cranbrook
4,936 peopleMean household income·£51,778 after tax·#168 of 2,178 in England and Wales
Cranbrook, #1 on this list · Photo: Lee Vilenski · CC BY-SA 4.0Devon rankings · Income
Towns with the highest household incomes in Devon
Cranbrook has the highest household incomes of Devon’s 47 towns of 2,500+: £72,887 a year before tax, on average (ONS, 2022–23). The typical town here averages £49,190.
ONS small-area income estimates, financial year ending 2023: the mean income of a household before tax (ONS models means, not medians, for small areas), averaged over the town’s neighbourhoods. A described list: no letters. The rank across England and Wales sits beside each figure.
#1£72,887
#2West Clyst
2,683 peopleMean household income·£49,155 after tax·#389 of 2,178 in England and Wales
#3Ivybridge
12,485 peopleMean household income·£44,948 after tax·#711 of 2,178 in England and Wales
All 47 towns, ranked
Mean household income, highest first. Small towns sit inside one ONS area of 5,000 to 15,000 people, so their figure is partly their surroundings’. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied). Each rank across England and Wales links to the national list.
47 towns.
#TownMean household incomeAfter taxUK rank
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Questions people ask
Which town in Devon has the highest household income?
Cranbrook: its households average £72,887 a year before tax (£51,778 after). West Clyst and Ivybridge follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By mean household income before tax in ONS’s small-area estimates (April 2022 to March 2023), highest first: each neighbourhood’s figure weighted by its share of the town’s residents.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers Devon’s towns of 2,500+ with the figure. Smaller places show it on their own pages; every town in Devon is on the county page.
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Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.
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County by county
Towns with the highest household incomes, county by county
BedfordshireBerkshireBuckinghamshireCambridgeshireCheshireClwydCornwallCounty DurhamCumbriaDerbyshireDevonDorsetDyfedEast Riding of YorkshireEast SussexEssexGloucestershireGreater ManchesterGwentHampshireHertfordshireKentLancashireLeicestershireLincolnshireLondonMerseysideMid GlamorganNorfolkNorth YorkshireNorthamptonshireNorthumberlandNottinghamshireOxfordshireShropshireSomersetSouth YorkshireStaffordshireSuffolkSurreyTyne and WearWarwickshireWest GlamorganWest MidlandsWest SussexWest YorkshireWiltshireWorcestershire
Sources: ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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