#1Richmond upon Thames
London · 192,888 peopleMean household income·£64,940 after tax·#1 of 33 in London
Richmond upon Thames, #1 on this list · Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0England and Wales · Income
Towns with the highest household incomes in England and Wales
Richmond upon Thames, London, has the highest household incomes of 2,178 towns and cities of 2,500+ in England and Wales: £101,762 a year before tax, on average (ONS, 2022–23). The typical town here averages £52,385.
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 county rank sits beside each figure.
#1£101,762
#2Harpenden
Hertfordshire · 30,964 peopleMean household income·£63,169 after tax·#1 of 50 in Hertfordshire
#3City of London
London · 7,820 peopleMean household income·£64,385 after tax·#2 of 33 in London
The top 100
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 county rank links to that county’s list.
100 towns on this page. Counties with 15 or more towns have their own list.
#TownMean household incomeAfter taxCounty rank
Quick answers
Questions people ask
Which town in England and Wales has the highest household income?
Richmond upon Thames, London: its households average £101,762 a year before tax (£64,940 after). Harpenden, Hertfordshire and City of London, London 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?
Every town of 2,500+ is ranked here; each county with 15 or more such towns has its own list, linked below.
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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