According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Maryland's Montgomery and Howard Counties are on the short list of the nation's riches counties. Montgomery County ranks 12th, while Howard County rounds out the top five richest counties.
Here's an excerpt:
"We took a look at the fifteen counties with the highest median household incomes -- all of which were above $89,000 -- to see where wealth may still be flourishing during the recession. Many of the communities achieved high median household incomes even in heavily-populated counties -- nearly two-thirds of the localities on this list have a quarter of a million people or more. And we noticed the emergence of some geographical patterns: among the fifteen most affluent communities, nearly half were located in Virginia and Maryland and were located in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area, and almost a third encircled the urban core of New York City. But there were still a few outliers...
Maryland's Howard County, located near Baltimore and Washington, D.C., had a median household income of $101,867. The Census Bureau reported that the county had a population of more than a quarter of a million in 2008."
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