Priciest Home Areas:

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Pricey homes

Here are towns from the Best Places database with the highest median home price.
Rank City Median home sale price 2010
1 Hillsborough, CA $ 2,277,500
2 Los Altos Hills, CA $ 2,273,250
3 Montecito, CA $ 1,864,000
4 Beverly Hills, CA $ 1,595,000
5 San Marino, CA $ 1,560,000
6 Tiburon, CA $ 1,425,000
7 Los Altos, CA $ 1,422,500
8 Manhattan Beach, CA $ 1,360,000
9 Saratoga, CA $ 1,349,000
10 Palos Verdes Estates, CA $ 1,339,927
11 Darien, CT $ 1,253,800
12 Rye, NY $ 1,210,000
13 Scarsdale, NY $ 1,200,000
14 Paradise Valley, AZ $ 1,185,000
15 Piedmont, CA $ 1,180,500
16 Coronado, CA $ 1,100,000
17 Great Falls, VA $ 1,090,000
18 Laguna Beach, CA $ 1,085,000
19 Alamo, CA $ 1,060,800
20 La Cañada Flintridge, CA $ 1,033,000
21 Winnetka, IL $ 990,000
22 Menlo Park, CA $ 970,000
23 Burlingame, CA $ 957,500
24 Westport, CT $ 949,950
25 Hermosa Beach, CA $ 919,784
From the September 2011 issue
Source: Onboard Informatics, Actual sales collected from county and municipal assessors' offices. Only includes sales within town boundaries. Only towns where there were more than 100 home sales in 2010 were considered.

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and here is which area makes the most dough,


Top-earning towns

Here are cities from the Best Places database with some of the highest median family incomes.

Rank City 2010 median family income
1 Great Falls, VA $367,660
2 Hillsborough, CA $319,240
3 Scarsdale, NY $250,124
4 Weston, MA $248,871
5 Los Altos Hills, CA $243,406
6 Glencoe, IL $237,874
7 Winnetka, IL $236,222
8 New Canaan, CT $231,957
9 Darien, CT $227,195
10 Chappaqua, NY $219,258
11 Paradise Valley, AZ $195,637
12 West University Place, TX $194,232
13 Potomac, MD $191,677
14 Town and Country, MO $185,555
15 Franklin Lakes, NJ $182,004
16 Warren, NJ $180,363
17 Wellesley, MA $177,132
18 Greenwood Village, CO $160,962
19 Palm Beach, FL $155,610
20 Radnor Township, PA $152,493
21 Bloomfield Township, MI $150,723
22 Mountain Brook, AL $149,516
23 Mercer Island, WA $146,570
24 Bellaire, TX $143,807
25 Tysons Corner, VA $143,749
From the September 2011 issue
Source: Census data, Onboard Informatics projection/aggregation
Only two places per state could qualify.

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