{"id":4126,"date":"2011-08-16T09:24:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T15:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2011-08-16T09:24:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T15:24:05","slug":"washingtonians-now-enjoy-the-highest-median-household-income-of-any-metropolitan-area-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4126","title":{"rendered":"Washingtonians now enjoy the highest median household income of any metropolitan area in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/dc-enclaves-reap-rewards-of-contracting-boom-as-federal-dollars-fuel-wealth\/2011\/06\/27\/gIQAWQC5HJ_print.html\">Anne Gowen<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Washingtonians now enjoy the highest median household income of any metropolitan area in the country, and five of the top 10 jurisdictions in America \u2014 Loudoun, Howard and Fairfax counties, and Falls Church and Fairfax City \u2014 are here, census data shows.<\/p>\n<p>The signs of that wealth are on display all over, from the string of luxury boutiques such as Gucci and Tory Burch opening at Tysons Galleria to the $15 cocktails served over artisanal ice at the W Hotel in the District to the ever-larger houses rising off River Road in Potomac.<\/p>\n<p>But nowhere is the region\u2019s wealth more concentrated than the place where Talwar purchased her 15,000-square-foot white-brick estate home: Great Falls, a once-rural enclave of about 15,000 residents 17 miles west of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen percent of Great Falls households earn $500,000 or above a year, and more than half make at least $250,000, according to Nielsen Claritas. By comparison, 11 percent of households in Potomac earn $500,000 or more, and McLean and Bethesda each boast 10 percent at that level.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Gowen: Washingtonians now enjoy the highest median household income of any metropolitan area in the country, and five of the top 10 jurisdictions in America \u2014 Loudoun, Howard and Fairfax counties, and Falls Church and Fairfax City \u2014 are here, census data shows. The signs of that wealth are on display all over, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}