Here’s How Much The Richest County In Ohio Makes

It’s not uncommon to find a dog wearing a sweater in America. But you might look twice if that pooch is wearing Prada. And while we’re not dogging all the stylish Scotties out there, a new report suggests you might find them in Delaware County, which was just named the richest county in Ohio.

The typical household in the county rakes in about $100,229 a year, according to a report published Wednesday by the financial news and opinion site 24/7 Wall St. That’s about $47,822more than the typical Ohio household, the authors found.

"Delaware is the only one of Ohio’s 88 counties where over a half of all households earn at least $100,000 a year. The typical Ohio household earns roughly half that much a year. Delaware County is located just north of Columbus, providing area residents access to jobs in and around the state capital. Partially as a result, just 3.3% of workers in the county are unemployed, below the 3.8% national unemployment rate. Additionally, just 2.6% of county households live on less than $10,000 per year, roughly a third of the comparable across Ohio as a whole," the authors wrote.

Compare that to Ohio's poorest county, according to 24/7 Wall St., Adams County.

That county's median household income is just $36,320. The state average is $52,407.

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Across the country, the typical household in the wealthiest counties earned between $58,000 and $130,000 a year, with Loudoun County, Virginia, coming in as the richest county in America. The authors said Loudoun’s proximity to Washington, D.C., and access to “countless jobs” help bolster its strong unemployment rate of just 2.3 percent, well below the national rate of 3.8 percent. Moreover, many of those jobs are high-skilled — and high-paying.

About 60 percent of adults in Loudoun County have earned at least a bachelor’s degree — about twice as many as the country overall — and the typical household earns about $130,000 a year, the highest income of any county by more than $12,000.Other counties in the six-figure income club include Howard County, Maryland ($115,576); Douglas County, Colorado ($111,154); Hunterdon County, New Jersey ($110,969); Los Alamos County, New Mexico ($110,190); Santa Clara County, California ($106,761); Nassau County, New York ($105,744); Williamson County, Tennessee ($103,543); and Delaware County, Ohio ($100,229).

Meanwhile, Arizona’s Maricopa County earned the lowest amount out of all the wealthiest counties at $58,580. That’s about $5,000 more than what the typical Arizona household earns. Interestingly, Maricopa County is actually the only Arizona county that earns more than the national median of $58,580.

“While it is the wealthiest in the state, the county’s median of $58,580 is only slightly higher than that of the nation,” the authors noted.

Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report.

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