Las Vegas ranks No. 41 on list of high-income cities
The rich are different from you and me: They don't live in Las Vegas.
Monday numbers from the Census Bureau ranked Las Vegas No. 41 out of the nation's 50 biggest cities for its share of high-income households from 2007 to 2011.
To qualify as high-income, a household must have earned $191,469 a year from January 2006 to November 2011, or enough to place earners in the top 5 percent for pay.
In Las Vegas, 4.1 percent of households made that much from 2006 to 2011. That proportion tied with Jacksonville, Fla.
Big cities that fared worse than Las Vegas included Tampa, Fla.; Orlando, Fla.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Memphis, Tenn.; Cleveland; and Pittsburgh.
At 15.9 percent, San Jose, Calif., ranked No. 1 among the nation's largest cities for its concentration of high earners. Other cities with double-digit shares of high-income households included Washington, D.C., at 14.1 percent; New York, at 10 percent; and San Francisco, at 13 percent.
Phoenix finished just ahead of Las Vegas, at 4.6 percent. In Los Angeles, 7.9 percent of households had high incomes.
The Census report also found that the country's 50 largest cities contained 51.9 percent of all households, and 71.9 percent of high-income households.
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