Where America's Wealthiest Suburbanites Live—and Where They Don't

For years the American residential dream went something like this: Move to a city, work hard, and eventually you’ll make enough to move out. So perhaps it’s not surprising that today many of America’s largest metropolitan areas house their highest earners on the outskirts of town. Exactly where they live varies from city to city—or rather, from suburb to suburb.

An analysis by Bloomberg Businessweek of data recently compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau offers a new level of detail in describing how far away—and in what direction—the nation’s top-earning suburbanites live, relative the local urban center.