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Originally Posted by Crawford
Only one town in Wayne County would come close to ranking among the wealthiest suburbs nationally, and it's tiny (Grosse Pointe Shores). Even then it doesn't rank super-high nationally.
Wayne County generally doesn't have large concentrations of wealth. Really the only two wealth concentrations in the county are the Grosse Pointes (mostly old money) and Northville (mostly new money).
And Northville, while technically mostly Wayne County, is sort of an extension of Oakland County (straddles the county line and is an extension of the new money affluence in the western portion of Oakland County around Novi-South Lyon area).
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Nevermind that there are 21 communities in Wayne County that are above the median US income:
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Grosse Pointe Shores $129,922
Grosse Pointe $103,867
Grosse Pointe Farms $103,517
Grosse Pointe Park $101,094
Northville TWP $ 97,470
Grosse Pointe Woods $ 87,518
Plymouth TWP $ 86,156
Grosse Ile TWP $ 84,812
Canton TWP $ 81,454
Northville $ 71,767
Livonia $ 69,009
Gibraltar $ 68,706
Plymouth $ 63,875
Brownstown TWP $ 63,308
Woodhaven $ 60,788
Huron TWP $ 60,123
Allen Park $ 56,647
Trenton $ 55,789
Sumpter TWP $ 55,463
Garden City $ 55,270
Rockwood $ 54,643
UNITED STATES $ 53,046
Collectively those communities have a population of about 460,000.
And that doesn't include areas like West Dearborn, with some 50,000 people, that would easily make the list if it were separate from East Dearborn.
I'm not saying that suburban Wayne County is
the example of wealth in this country, but I guarantee there aren't too many people in any of those communities that would find it particularly difficult to live. And as difficult as it is for many within the poorest areas of the county, those 21 communities basically cancel out the extreme poverty you'll find in certain areas of the county. Which is why Wayne County overall wouldn't come close to making a "hardest places to live" list.