Census Bureau: 5 Richest Counties Are D.C. Suburbs

CNS News ^ | December 7, 2017 | Terence P. Jeffrey

[C19fan]

The five richest counties in the United States when measured by median household income are all suburbs of Washington, D.C., according to the American Community Survey data released today by the Census Bureau.

According to the American Community Survey's new five-year estimates (2012-2016), the five richest counties in the country are: Loudoun County, Va., where the median household income was $125,672; Falls Church City, Va., where it was $115,244; Fairfax County, Va., where it was $114,329; Howard County, Md., where it was $113,800; and Arlington County, Va., where it was $108,706.

[C19fan]

An Imperial City without the Imperial Splendor. I drive up I-95 to visit the DC area now and then. You can smell the money splashing around in the place.

[bigbob]

Thanks to us.

[MMaschin]

Senator Byrd once famously tried to move the CIA to West Virginia. At the time, I decried it as pure corruption, but now I'm thinking he may have been onto something.

We need to start moving federal agencies out of the corruption of the beltway.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Maybe I’m ignorant, but what’s going on? Not everyone is a highly paid bureaucrat in the Washington DC area. Not everyone even works for the government. Are there that many lobbyists and attorneys who do government related work, and get the big bucks for doing so?

[RegulatorCountry]

[C19fan]

Across the street from the Pentagon is a street filled with high rise office buildings. They are almost all associated with defense contractors.

[Wuli]

Lobbyists, lawyers, “consultants” for DOD & others, and outsourced technology support outfits.

[cincinnati65]

I was thinking the same thing....

[Gay State Conservative]

A few years ago the figure I saw was that four of the five richest,and that seven of the ten richest,counties in the country were suburbs of DC.

So today it's five of five...I wonder how the second five stack up.

Add to these figures the fact that DC routinely goes 90%-10% for the Rat Presidential candidate and that MD and VA are now reliably Rat it's easy to reach a *very* important fact about this country.

[j. earl carter]

Senator Byrd once famously tried to move the CIA to West Virginia.

He did get some things moved. There is a sizable FBI complex near Clarksburg. This movement of bureaucrats out of DC is the only good thing Byrd ever did.

[fishtank]

Yep.

[dblshot]

Hunger Games!

[PGR88]

Fed.gov spends $4 Trillion per year, and all of it passes through the imperial city.

[DesertRhino]

Fascism. This is the government business partnership Mussolini loved so much.

[tumblindice]

That’s what I was thinking: Capitol City serviced by tributary districts, for which they have nothing but contempt.

[Pelham]

Times must have changed. I grew up in Arlington when my dad was an Army officer posted at the Pentagon. Arlington was a great place to grow up but I sure don’t remember anyone being rich. Maybe the Kennedys but they lived in that big house in DC.

[Political Junkie Too]

Meanwhile, the plebeians in DC are complaining that they're being outbid to use the toll roads.

DC-area drivers blast I-66 tolling system as fees hit $40 mark

All that wealth has to go somewhere.

-PJ

[antidisestablishment]

“The Census Bureau treats independents cities—such as Falls Church City, Va., and Fairfax City, Va.—as counties, which is why they are included on the list.”

This skews the entire dataset. It makes no sense to include cities in a county calculation. Not that DC isn’t sucking wealth from everywhere else; but these rankings are completely invalid.

[nopardons]

Thanks for that info!

I have 2 cousins who live in Falls Church City and know that that isn't a county.

[RegulatorCountry]

Cities in Virginia are independent entities, they’re part of no county.