5Stamford
Cost of Living: 44.1% above U.S. average
City Population: 125,109
Median Household Income: $76,797
Median Home Value: $537,300
Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, 30 miles from Manhattan. Stamford is home to four Fortune 500 Companies,nine Fortune 1000 Companies, and 13 Courant 100 Companies, as well as numerous divisions of large corporations.
This gives Stamford the largest financial district in New York Metro outside New York City itself and one of the largest concentrations of corporations in the nation.
It is the smallest city on this list. But it really packs in the wealth. Stamford flaunts the second-highest median household income on this list, as well as one of the highest concentrations of millionaire households in the country. A house on the Shippan waterfront would cost you almost $ 3 million.
