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The Ten Richest Counties in America Will Surprise You [INFOGRAPHIC]

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The richest counties in America by median income are not located near Silicon Valley or adjacent to Wall Street. They are not in oil rich Texas either.

If you guessed that they are surrounding the D.C. Metro Area, you are correct. Six of ten of the richest counties by median income are based just outside of Washington D.C.: five in Virginia, and one in Maryland. This includes the number one ranked county in all of the United States, Falls Church City in Virginia, which has a median income of $121,250 and where half of homeowners own houses worth more than $500k. In case you are wondering, Falls Church City is less than a 10 mile commute from the nation’s capital.

H/T Visual Capitalist

The Ten Richest Counties in America Will Surprise You

Richest Counties in America Infographic

Infographic source: Timothy Sykes

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