Which city has the most yuppies (young urban professionals)?? (living, best, cost)

[wildcat2009]

Which city or cities in the U.S., well particularly an urban neighborhood, has the highest amount of six-figure yuppies?

[Thomas R.]

Possibly the "Silicon Valley" area. Looking for other possibles Madison, Wisconsin is listed as having a high number with professional degrees and a median age below the state's average.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Madison-Wisconsin.html

Boulder, Colorado looks even more that way, and is richer, but is smaller in size.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Boulder-Colorado.html

The DC suburbs I think have a good deal of young professional people. I think it and Atlanta are maybe the main areas for so-called "Buppies", which is like black Yuppies. (The Yuppie image, when the word was popular, was generally associated with whites. Also possibly "Buppie" includes older Black professionals as well)

Possibly Seattle has a sizeable Yuppie element.

[The Dissenter]

Arlington, VA especially the North side has a whole heaping mess of yuppies.

[wildcat2009]

I was thinking of downtown Chicago, Georgetown-DC, Buckhead-Atlanta, Brickell-Miami, Manhattan-New York, Back Bay- Boston

[Count David]

Anywhere that anybody who's anybody lives. The "cool" places.

I'd say there's a fairly sizable population of them everywhere, here in Denver included.

I likes to keep my distance from them.

[18Montclair]

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[Rachael84]

Weren't the first yuppies from NY in the 80s?

[CGTSS]

Originally Posted by wildcat2009

Which city or cities in the U.S., well particularly an urban neighborhood, has the highest amount of six-figure yuppies?

Households earning $200,000 per year:

New York 628,682
Los Angeles 333,891
Washington DC 274,666
San Francisco 269,175
Chicago 186,902
Boston 170,712
Philadelphia 118,228
Dallas 107,502
Houston 102,568
Atlanta 95,615
Miami 91,726
Seattle 79,064
Detroit 69,778
Minneapolis 66,119
San Diego 61,856
Phoenix 59,008
Denver 54,719

Highest top 5% incomes:

1. New York, NY: $857,643
2. Fairfield, CT: $822,708
3. Westchester, NY: $793,134
4. Somerset, NJ: $625,869
5. Marin, CA: $624,762
6. Montgomery, MD: $567,190
7. Hunterdon, NJ: $554,015
8. Morris, NJ: $546,982
9. Nassau, NY: $538,307
10. San Francisco, CA: $523,744

So (1) New York, (2) Los Angeles, (3) Washington, (4) San Francisco, (5) Chicago, you get the picture... or more specifically - Manhattan, Greenwich, Westchester, Marin, Nassau, San Francisco, Montgomery etc.

[city_data91]

Originally Posted by CGTSS

Households earning $200,000 per year:

New York 628,682
Los Angeles 333,891
Washington DC 274,666
San Francisco 269,175
Chicago 186,902
Boston 170,712
Philadelphia 118,228
Dallas 107,502
Houston 102,568
Atlanta 95,615
Miami 91,726
Seattle 79,064
Detroit 69,778
Minneapolis 66,119
San Diego 61,856
Phoenix 59,008
Denver 54,719

Highest top 5% incomes:

1. New York, NY: $857,643
2. Fairfield, CT: $822,708
3. Westchester, NY: $793,134
4. Somerset, NJ: $625,869
5. Marin, CA: $624,762
6. Montgomery, MD: $567,190
7. Hunterdon, NJ: $554,015
8. Morris, NJ: $546,982
9. Nassau, NY: $538,307
10. San Francisco, CA: $523,744

So (1) New York, (2) Los Angeles, (3) Washington, (4) San Francisco, (5) Chicago, you get the picture... or more specifically - Manhattan, Greenwich, Westchester, Marin, Nassau, San Francisco, Montgomery etc.

That list is misleading because they don't take into account cost of living. $200,000 in New York City is middle class while $200,000 in Atlanta goes a lot further.

[CGTSS]

Originally Posted by city_data91

That list is misleading because they don't take into account cost of living. $200,000 in New York City is middle class while $200,000 in Atlanta goes a lot further.

But there aren't many $200,000 per year earners in Atlanta, so Atlanta does not have the most "yuppies".

We all know $200,000 goes a lot further in terms of purchasing power in Atlanta or Boise over New York City or San Francisco but that really has nothing to do with the question (or the statistics). The poster asked which city had the most six figure earners or highest income earners and I posted them.