Where the Richest People Live

Beverly Hills famously has some of the country's most valuable real estate. On the western end of the city, between the Los Angeles Country Club and North Beverly Drive, the median home value is about $3 million, according to real estate website NeighborhoodScout.com, and many properties cost far more. This posh neighborhood in the 90210 zip code is lined with pristine single-family homes, most with at least four bedrooms.

Streets need not be filled with big estates to have high home values. On the opposite coast, in Manhattan, an area bordering the east side of Central Park from 70th Street to 77th Street, between Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue, contains homes with a median value of $2.8 million. (In comparison, the median home value citywide is about $779,000, estimates NeighborhoodScout.) Unlike Beverly Hills, the area is mostly stacked with luxury apartments, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2005-2009 American Community Survey.