Here's the town with the most valuable homes in every state
- Using data from the US Census Bureau, we found the town in every state with the highest median home value.
- Many of the towns are affluent suburbs of big cities.
The American Community Survey is an annual survey run by the Census Bureau to allow the government, corporate and academic researchers, and anyone who is curious about demographics to better understand the US population. Among many other subjects, the ACS includes questions about how much people's homes are worth.
Using the ACS estimates from 2013 to 2017 for places with at least a 1,000-person population, excluding college campuses and military bases, Business Insider made a map showing the town in each state with the highest median home value among owner-occupied households.
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The Census Bureau top-codes median home values, which means that for places where that median is above $2 million, it does not give a precise estimate in order to protect the privacy of survey respondents. In New York and California, there were multiple places with populations over 1,000 that fell into the over $2 million bracket. To break the tie, we chose the town in the over-$2 million bracket with the highest share of homes worth over $1 million.
This table shows the town with the highest median home value in each state, along with that median:
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