--- title: This Is the Richest City in America description: Silicon Valley leads the list of the country's richest, most productive cities in the U.S. authors: - name: Alexandra Mondalek url: https://money.com/author/alexandra-mondalek/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 44 covers: - Personal Finance - Banking - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/amondalek former_staff: true published: '2015-11-05T21:29:16.000Z' modified: '2024-04-16T07:28:44.000Z' section: Personal Finance tags: - Best Places to Be Rich and Single - productivity - rankings - richest cities - Silicon Valley - technology - Wealth word_count: 274 canonical: https://money.com/richest-cities-america-silicon-valley/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![San Jose, California](https://img.money.com/2015/11/151105_em_richcities.jpg) *San Jose, California* What do you get when you mix an education epicenter with a technology hub? The richest city in America. According to [data compiled](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-05/these-are-the-20-richest-cities-in-america) by Bloomberg, the newest reigning metropolitan area for wealth and productivity is San Jose, Calif., the third-largest city in the state and a hub of Silicon Valley. The 2014 gross metropolitan product (GMP) per capita—which is a technical way of saying economic output per resident—in the San Jose metro area was $105,482, more than double the national average. Since the Great Recession, technology hot spots have inched their way forward in attracting the smartest and most highly compensated residents, surpassing the East Coast centers of the financial elite. To be sure, the other coast is well represented: cities like Boston and Philadelphia still rank highly, and Bridgeport, Ct., comes in second on Bloomberg's list, with a per-resident GMP of $94,349. The results are hardly surprising--home prices are perhaps one of the most conspicuous indicators of wealth, and real estate in Silicon Valley doesn't come cheap (just ask any number of California-based Apple workers, whose house could very well be worth [five times](https://money.com/silicon-valley-real-estate/?iid=sr-link1) more than your own.) Good news to those living in some of Bloomberg's top-ranked cities (looking at you, Boston, San Fran, and Seattle): Your towns are among Money's best places to live for [rich singles.](https://money.com/collection-post/best-places-rich-single-2015/) Check out [Bloomberg's map](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-05/these-are-the-20-richest-cities-in-america#media-3) of the top 20 cities to find out if you live in one of the richest places. If you're more like the rest of us and just want to live in one of the best cities period, check out Money's [list](https://money.com/collection/best-places-to-live-2015/) of the 50 Best Places to Live in America. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/richest-cities-america-silicon-valley/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Personal Finance", "item": "https://money.com/personal-finance/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Wealth Management", "item": "https://money.com/wealth-management/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "This Is the Richest City in America" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/richest-cities-america-silicon-valley/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/richest-cities-america-silicon-valley/", "name": "This Is the Richest City in America", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-11-05T21:29:16.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/richest-cities-america-silicon-valley/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/richest-cities-america-silicon-valley/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-16T07:28:44.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "This Is the Richest City in America", "articleSection": "Personal Finance", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/11/151105_em_richcities.jpg", "width": 2100, "height": 1400, "caption": "151105_EM_RichCities" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alexandra Mondalek", "url": "https://money.com/author/alexandra-mondalek/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/alexandra-mondalek/#author", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/amondalek" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-11-05T21:29:16.000Z", "description": "Silicon Valley leads the list of the country's richest, most productive cities in the U.S.", "abstract": "Silicon Valley leads the list of the country's richest, most productive cities in the U.S.", "@id": "https://money.com/richest-cities-america-silicon-valley/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-16T07:28:44.000Z", "wordCount": 274, "keywords": [ "Best Places to Be Rich and Single", "productivity", "rankings", "richest cities", "Silicon Valley", "technology", "Wealth" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Personal finance", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_finance" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Wealth management", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_management" ] } ] } ] } ```