The Richest Zip Codes In The United States [PHOTOS]

It may be only five numbers long, but a zip code can say a lot about a person. Like if they have rich neighbors, for example.

Of 29,000 zip codes examined by the Internal Revenue Service, only three had an average yearly income of one million dollars or more, based on recently released data from 2008 (h/t Tax.com). But the average income per year for all of the top ten richest zip codes exceeds $700,000, according to IRS data, a staggering sum compared to the average American taxpayer's income of just $49,000 in 2009.

Three of the wealthiest five zip codes are located in New York City, but neighborhoods in California, Florida and Illinois also made the top ten in highest average income.

That New York City boasts so many cash-money zip codes may not be surprising. Not only does the city count among its residents 7,270 people worth $30 million or more, it's also one of the most expensive places to live in the nation. Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn all count in the top five towns with the highest cost of living, a report from the Council for Community and Economic Research found.

Thanks to the high cost of living, a Manhattanite making $60,000 a year lives a lifestyle equivalent to the average American making just $26,092, according to a 2009 Center for an Urban Future report cited by the New York Daily News.

Here are the 10 zip codes with the highest average annual incomes, according to the IRS Statistics of Income division:

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Comments

[Natalie Y]

12:35 PM on 02/05/2013

Oklahoma? No thanks!

[brandon20678]

03:04 PM on 03/15/2012

Good what about 48507?

[IMissAmerica]

07:55 PM on 03/13/2012

Are people using their office addresses for their income taxes? because nobody lives in Grand Central Station, except maybe a few homeless.

[janedoe31]

07:47 PM on 02/28/2012

good places to walk the dog if your out spouse shopping

[ennui the third]

06:35 AM on 02/28/2012

What is the point of this article?....I guess to show the rich are indeed rich!....I never would have guessed!

[sidburgess]

09:07 PM on 02/26/2012

The picture you used of OKC is horrible. Picture of dirt-work on an interstate doesn't represent this zipcode.

[let peace prevail]

11:58 PM on 02/25/2012

Unless you've paid an insane amount of rent for a shoe box apartment in the Manhattan neighborhoods mentioned, you shouldn't comment on the people living there.

[Bhut1313]

03:47 PM on 02/25/2012

I find it very hard to believe, and can find no corroboration, that the wealthiest zip in Texas is in Witchita Falls.

[spkninglsh]

01:59 PM on 02/25/2012

As a giant security gate manufacturer, I find this information useful.

[GCL 1]

06:48 PM on 02/26/2012

Hahaha.

[August Dunlap]

01:52 PM on 02/25/2012

257 returns were filed in an area about as big as dc or even smaller where the net income is $1,920 thousand is ridiculous especially when we have some areas where the net income is $30,000 with 1,960 returns and the rate for that zip is 26%.

anyone care to explain how income inequality works again????

[calltoaction]

09:51 AM on 02/25/2012

Tax the rich! They can't afford to pay a little more.

[MSROADKILL612]

03:38 AM on 02/25/2012

bill gates spent xmas in syney oz - rented a house -- & paul allen parks his boat on the barrier reef last i hear

dont take my word for it - ask around & cmon down before they screw it up even more

the QE2 is doing a circumnavigation soon i think - sounds a great trip

[DismayedRepub]

12:49 AM on 02/27/2012

I seriously doubt Bill and Paul would ever party together.

[MSROADKILL612]

03:23 AM on 02/27/2012

Only frisky thing I heard of bill doing when young was getting free burgers by only having a $1k bill on him & driving very fast. he is all business, but thats ok.

[SalesmanForLife]

01:25 AM on 02/25/2012

I bet 02114 or 02115 were overlooked, right?

[Mr Crabs]

11:19 PM on 02/24/2012

There's a slight trend of the more you make the less taxes you pay.

[jimme]

09:11 AM on 02/25/2012

You caught that too.

[Ainsi sera groigne qui]

06:28 PM on 02/25/2012

There you all go again.

How much one pays in taxes is directly related to how it is earned.

Wages from "work" is taxed differently than rents,investments and other passive income. You have a problem with that then blame the tax code for that is how the thing is designed.

[syllable]

09:07 PM on 02/24/2012

...and in the meanwhile, there are zip codes in Chicago and elsewhere where America is closing schools and our children are going without decent education. We are short sighted if we don't see how one condition will inevitably impact the other. We can't sustain a system with this level of disparity.