At the end of 2023, the median household income in the US was around 4.2 percent higher than the year before. On the city level, though, incomes ranged from several times above to well below that.

Using Census Bureau data, SmartAsset ranked 636 US cities — those with available data and a population of at least 65,000 — based on the percentage change in median household income between 2022 and 2023.

Pine Hills, Florida, experienced the highest increase in median income overall, with households taking home 65 percent more in 2023 than they did the previous year.

Over the same period, four other cities saw income grow by more than 30 percent: Apple Valley, California (37.3 percent), Kissimmee, Florida (33 percent), Davis, California (32.6 percent) and Tulare, California (31.9 percent).

Households in Sammamish, Washington, had the highest median income in 2023 ($238,750), with almost 83 percent earning more than $100,000.

The biggest drops in median household income occurred in Marysville, Washington (−17.93 percent), Champaign, Illinois (-17.7 percent), Madera, California (-17.5 percent) and Baton Rouge, Louisiana (-17.2 percent).

Via SmartAsset.

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