Mountain Brook ranked one of America’s highest earning cities

A recent financial analysis by the site NerdWallet reveals that Mountain Brook is one of the highest earning cities in the United States. The analysis looked at household incomes for 1,601 cities across the nation and found that only 57 of those cities had populations where 50 percent or more of the residents made $100,000 or above a year.

Mountain Brook came in at number 15 on the list, with more than half of the incomes showing a significant jump from the annual U.S. median household income of $52,250.

Sixty percent of Mountain Brook residents make $100,000 or more per year, placing them in the top 20 percent of all earners in the U.S. In addition, 28.7 percent of the residents make over $200,000 a year. Analysts found that higher-earning areas, like Mountain Brook, are typically clustered around the outskirts of larger cities.