Top 101 cities with the highest increase in household income from 2000 to 2005

[phk]

Top 101 larger cities with the highest increase in household income from 2000 to 2005


1.    Suffolk, VA (housing, pop. 81,071): 47.1%
2.    San Marcos, CA (housing, pop. 76,501): 46.6%
3.    Elk Grove, CA (housing, pop. 129,184): 36.5%
4.    Clovis, CA (housing, pop. 89,316): 34.5% (lived here from 2003-2007)
5.    El Cajon, CA (housing, pop. 91,756): 32.3%
6.    Hawthorne, CA (housing, pop. 85,438): 30.6%
7.    Santa Barbara, CA (housing, pop. 85,681): 28.8%
8.    Livermore, CA (housing, pop. 79,438): 28.3%
9.    Fall River, MA (housing, pop. 91,474): 28.2%
10.    Fontana, CA (housing, pop. 170,099): 27.7%
11.    Arlington, VA (housing, pop. 199,776): 27.7%
12.    Albany, GA (housing, pop. 75,335): 27.6%
13.    Newport News, VA (housing, pop. 178,281): 27.4%
14.    Providence, RI (housing, pop. 175,255): 27.3%
15.    Cranston, RI (housing, pop. 81,479): 27.1%
16.    Spring Hill, FL (housing, pop. 69,078): 27.0%
17.    Apple Valley, CA (housing, pop. 68,886): 26.5%
18.    Quincy, MA (housing, pop. 91,058): 26.3%
19.    O'Fallon, MO (housing, pop. 72,477): 26.0%
20.    Redding, CA (housing, pop. 90,033): 25.4%
21.    Hesperia, CA (housing, pop. 83,351): 25.1%
22.    Cambridge, MA (housing, pop. 101,365): 24.5%
23.    Turlock, CA (housing, pop. 68,492): 24.1%
24.    Chino, CA (housing, pop. 79,289): 24.0%
25.    Chula Vista, CA (housing, pop. 212,756): 24.0%
26.    Redondo Beach, CA (housing, pop. 67,346): 23.7%
27.    Lake Forest, CA (housing, pop. 76,323): 23.7%
28.    Santa Maria, CA (housing, pop. 84,712): 23.7%
29.    Manchester, NH (housing, pop. 109,497): 23.6%
30.    Miami Beach, FL (housing, pop. 86,916): 23.6%
31.    Somerville, MA (housing, pop. 74,554): 23.3%
32.    Warwick, RI (housing, pop. 85,925): 23.0%
33.    Compton, CA (housing, pop. 95,701): 22.6%
34.    Rialto, CA (housing, pop. 99,467): 22.3%
35.    Surprise, AZ (housing, pop. 85,914): 22.2%
36.    Escondido, CA (housing, pop. 133,510): 21.8%
37.    Port St. Lucie, FL (housing, pop. 143,868): 21.7%
38.    San Diego, CA (housing, pop. 1,256,951): 21.7%
39.    Sacramento, CA (housing, pop. 453,781): 21.1%
40.    Riverside, CA (housing, pop. 293,761): 21.1%
41.    Alhambra, CA (housing, pop. 87,506): 20.7%
42.    Arlington Heights, IL (housing, pop. 74,138): 20.5%
43.    Virginia Beach, VA (housing, pop. 435,619): 20.2%
44.    Chesapeake, VA (housing, pop. 220,560): 19.9%
45.    Carlsbad, CA (housing, pop. 92,928): 19.8%
46.    Oceanside, CA (housing, pop. 165,803): 19.6%
47.    Brockton, MA (housing, pop. 94,191): 19.6%
48.    New Rochelle, NY (housing, pop. 73,446): 19.5%
49.    Hemet, CA (housing, pop. 70,136): 19.5%
50.    Richmond, CA (housing, pop. 102,120): 19.4%
51.    Westminster, CA (housing, pop. 89,520): 19.2%
52.    Portsmouth, VA (housing, pop. 101,377): 19.1%
53.    Glendale, CA (housing, pop. 199,463): 19.0%
54.    Florence-Graham, CA (housing, pop. 60,197): 19.0%
55.    Chino Hills, CA (housing, pop. 75,282): 18.8%
56.    Killeen, TX (housing, pop. 102,003): 18.7%
57.    Wilmington, NC (housing, pop. 95,944): 18.7%
58.    Fairfield, CA (housing, pop. 104,897): 18.6%
59.    Torrance, CA (housing, pop. 142,350): 18.6%
60.    Asheville, NC (housing, pop. 72,789): 18.5%
61.    San Mateo, CA (housing, pop. 91,601): 18.4%
62.    Moreno Valley, CA (housing, pop. 183,571): 18.4%
63.    Clarksville, TN (housing, pop. 113,175): 18.2%
64.    Orange, CA (housing, pop. 135,070): 18.1%
65.    Rancho Cucamonga, CA (housing, pop. 170,714): 18.1%
66.    Fayetteville, AR (housing, pop. 68,726): 18.0%
67.    Alexandria, VA (housing, pop. 136,974): 18.0%
68.    Carson, CA (housing, pop. 93,805): 17.9%
69.    Thousand Oaks, CA (housing, pop. 124,207): 17.8%
70.    Washington, DC (housing, pop. 581,530): 17.7%
71.    Toms River, NJ (housing, pop. 86,327): 17.6%
72.    Joliet, IL (housing, pop. 142,702): 17.6%
73.    Long Beach, CA (housing, pop. 472,494): 17.4%
74.    Upland, CA (housing, pop. 73,379): 17.4%
75.    Fresno, CA (housing, pop. 466,714): 17.3%
76.    Davie, FL (housing, pop. 85,583): 17.3%
77.    Victorville, CA (housing, pop. 98,662): 17.1%
78.    Melbourne, FL (housing, pop. 76,963): 17.1%
79.    Tallahassee, FL (housing, pop. 159,012): 17.0%
80.    Thornton, CO (housing, pop. 109,155): 16.9%
81.    Alameda, CA (housing, pop. 70,699): 16.8%
82.    Newport Beach, CA (housing, pop. 80,006): 16.7%
83.    Fort Lauderdale, FL (housing, pop. 185,804): 16.6%
84.    Lee's Summit, MO (housing, pop. 81,913): 16.4%
85.    Los Angeles, CA (housing, pop. 3,849,378): 16.3%
86.    Bethlehem, PA (housing, pop. 72,704): 16.1%
87.    Mission Viejo, CA (housing, pop. 94,848): 16.1%
88.    Norfolk, VA (housing, pop. 229,112): 16.0%
89.    Napa, CA (housing, pop. 74,966): 16.0%
90.    Stockton, CA (housing, pop. 290,141): 16.0%
91.    Odessa, TX (housing, pop. 95,163): 15.9%
92.    Fullerton, CA (housing, pop. 132,918): 15.8%
93.    Vacaville, CA (housing, pop. 92,691): 15.7%
94.    Peoria, AZ (housing, pop. 142,024): 15.7%
95.    Vista, CA (housing, pop. 89,891): 15.7%
96.    Dale City, VA (housing, pop. 55,971): 15.6%
97.    Irvington, NJ (housing, pop. 60,695): 15.6%
98.    New Bedford, MA (housing, pop. 92,538): 15.5%
99.    North Las Vegas, NV (housing, pop. 197,567): 15.5%
100.    Buena Park, CA (housing, pop. 79,664): 15.3%
101.    Miramar, FL (housing, pop. 108,072): 15.2%

[Sbane]

California certainly seems to be overrepresented on this list.

[Alcon]

This list confuses me.  North Las Vegas?

[Joe Republic]

This list confuses me.  North Las Vegas?

NLV was widely known as a sh**thole more or less until the housing boom.  Since that ended, it's rapidly going back to being a sh**thole.


About thirty minutes after our brush with the Okies we pulled into an all-night diner on
the Tonopah highway, on the skirts of a mean skag ghetto called North Las Vegas. Which is
actually outside the city limits of Vegas proper. North Vegas is where you go when you’ve f**ked
up once too often on the Strip, and when you’re not even welcome in the cut-rate downtown
places around Casino Center.

This is Nevada’s answer to East St. Louis – a slum and a graveyard, last stop before
permanent exile to Ely or Winnemuca. North Vegas is where you go if you’re a hooker turning
thirty and the syndicate men on the Strip decide you’re no longer much good for business out
there with the high rollers… or if you’re a pimp with bad credit at the Sands… or what they still
call, in Vegas, “a hophead.” This can mean almost anything from a mean drunk to a junkie, but
in terms of commercial acceptability, it means you’re finished all the right places.

     --- Hunter S. Thompson

[Alcon]

Oh, see, I clicked on this assuming it would be something recently relevant (i.e., not five years old.)  Makes total sense if it's 2000-2005.

[Verily]

This list confuses me.  North Las Vegas?

More to the point: Irvington, NJ The place has a higher crime rate than Camden, it's just too small to make the national rankings.