Falls Church Ranks #1 in This Category, U.S. Census Bureau Says

Residents living in the City of Falls Church have the highest incomes in Virginia and the country, according to recent statistics released by the United Census Bureau.

Residents living here topped the census bureau’s list of the top 30 highest-income counties in the United States in 2012, which went to several counties on the East Coast including five counties in Northern Virginia. 

Falls Church ranked highest on that list, with residents having a median household income of $121,250 while Rockwell County, Texas, rounded off the top 30 list with a median income of $85,164.

Falls Church was deemed a county equivalent because it is an independent city.

The data is from the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates program, which provides the only current, single-year income and poverty statistics for all sizes of counties and school districts — roughly 3,140 counties and nearly 14,000 school districts nationally.

"Metropolitan counties along the East Coast continued to have the highest median household income and lowest poverty in the country," said Lucinda Dalzell, chief of the Census Bureau's Small Areas Estimates Branch.

Meanwhile, a handful of Northern Virginia counties were ranked among the top-income counties in the United States:

#2 Loudoun County: $118,934

#5 Fairfax County: $106,690

#7 Arlington County: $99,256 

#9 Stafford County: $95,927