The 10 Richest Neighborhoods In Madison, WI For 2024


The richest Madison neighborhoods are Stonefield Woods-Ridge and Glacier Ridge for 2024 based on Saturday Night Science.

Richest Neighborhoods In Madison
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Welcome to the land of the 1%. Where you’ll find lawyers, and doctors, and business executives. And while they aren’t made of ticky-tacky, they are definitely made of money.

These are the wealthiest neighborhoods that Madison has to offer. Where houses go for over 2.87x the national median and household incomes are 2.66x the national median.

But where exactly in Madison do the richest of the rich people live? That would be Stonefield Woods-Ridge where the median income is a cool $146,254.

Here’s a look at the top 10 wealthiest neighborhoods in Madison out of 104 for 2024.

What’s the richest neighborhood to live in Madison for 2024? According to the most recent census data, Stonefield Woods-Ridge looks to be the richest Madison neighborhood to live in.

Summing up the median income of those 10 neighborhoods adds up to $1,259,488. And that, my friend, is more 0s than most of us will see in our bank account for a long, long time — if we ever get that lucky.

Find where your neighborhood ranks amongst the richest in Madison.

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Richst Neighborhoods In Madison For 2024 By Median Income

Rank Neighborhood Median Household Income
1 Stonefield Woods-Ridge $146,254
2 Glacier Ridge $143,886
3 Nakoma League $143,179
4 Country Grove $138,904
5 Hawk’s Landing $128,683
6 Blackhawk $124,493
7 Parkwood Hills $110,640
8 Dudgeon-Monroe $110,367
9 Sunset Hills $106,806
10 Midvale Heights Community $106,276
11 Reston Heights $105,851
12 Summit Woods $105,845
13 Stone Meadows $104,056
14 Westmorland $102,132
15 Highlands Community $101,008
16 Woodland Hills $101,008
17 Glen Oak Hills $100,197
18 East Buckeye $97,778
19 Radio Park $97,708
20 Vanchamasshe $97,708
21 Walnut Grove $94,248
22 Tamarack Trails Community $94,248
23 Junction Ridge $90,054
24 Mcclellan Park $89,852
25 Sauk Creek $89,212
26 Cherokee Park $88,976
27 Westhaven Trails $87,812
28 Arbor Hills $86,708
29 High Crossing $86,672
30 Wexford Ridge $85,568
31 Sunset Village $84,373
32 Old Middleton Greenway $83,362
33 Regent $81,822
34 Wexford $81,566
35 Spring Harbor $81,466
36 Skyview Meadows $81,042
37 Schenk-Atwood $81,000
38 High Point Estates $80,900
39 Faircrest $80,758
40 Wisconsin Co-Op Housing $78,611
41 Elvehjem $78,383
42 Maple-Prairie $77,938
43 Heritage Heights $76,411
44 Highland Manor $75,583
45 Oakbridge Community $75,496
46 Rolling Meadows $74,734
47 Lake Edge $74,321
48 Hill Farms-University Neighborh $73,024
49 Greentree $72,622
50 Sherman Village $72,214
51 Lerdahl Park $71,875
52 North Lake Mendota $71,875
53 Marquette $71,139
54 Westchester Gardens $70,599
55 East Bluff $69,516
56 Mendota Hills $69,444
57 Emerson East $68,885
58 Meadowood $68,768
59 Moorland-Rimrock $68,280
60 Tenney-Lapham $67,453
61 Glendale $67,380
62 Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahar $67,254
63 Vilas $66,756
64 Bay Creek $66,551
65 Marbella $64,310
66 Prairie Hills $62,680
67 Eastmorland $62,229
68 Greenbush $59,184
69 Heistand $58,059
70 Broadway-Lakepoint $56,681
71 Orchard Ridge Community $56,321
72 Waunona $55,919
73 Indian Springs $55,556
74 Lake View Hill $55,250
75 Sherman $54,565
76 Ridgewood $53,236
77 Whitetail Ridge $52,750
78 Hawthorne $52,579
79 Bluff Acres $52,563
80 Park Ridge $50,500
81 Carpenter-Ridgeway $46,607
82 Sheridan Triangle $46,466
83 Brentwood Village $46,466
84 Burr Oaks $45,865
85 Capitol View Heights $44,879
86 Worthington Park $44,375
87 Mayfair Park $44,282
88 Eken Park $42,750
89 Berkley Oaks $41,699
90 Nobel Park $40,985
91 Vera Court $40,985
92 Norman Acres $40,732
93 University Apartments $40,139
94 Burke Heights $39,229
95 Capitol $39,062
96 Allied Community $37,268
97 Clarendon Hills $37,176
98 Bram’s Addition $33,788
99 Leopold $33,371
100 Sherman Terrace $33,200
101 Dunn’s Marsh $30,342
102 Bayview $26,429
103 Brittingham Apartments $23,235
104 South Campus $18,172

How We Determined The Wealthiest Neighborhoods In Madison For 2024

Every city has its best neighborhoods — where everyone wants to live — and the worst neighborhoods — where no one wants to live. And then you have the wealthiest neighborhoods, where no one can afford to live.

And by no one, we mean you because there’s always someone richer than you.

How do you quantify richer than you? We looked at one simple criterion:

Which neighborhoods have the highest median income?

Using Saturday Night Science, we researched income data from the Census and BLS for every neighborhood in Madison.

We ranked every neighborhood in Madison by median income from highest to lowest. The neighborhood with the highest median income, Stonefield Woods-Ridge, was named the wealthiest neighborhood in Madison.

The richest neighborhoods in Madison are Stonefield Woods-Ridge, Glacier Ridge, Nakoma League, Country Grove, Hawk’s Landing, Blackhawk, Parkwood Hills, Dudgeon-Monroe, Sunset Hills, and Midvale Heights Community.

The poorest neighborhood? That would be South Campus.

The poorest neighborhoods in Madison are South Campus, Brittingham Apartments, Bayview, Dunn’s Marsh, and Sherman Terrace.

We updated this article for 2024. This is our tenth time ranking the most affluent neighborhoods to live in Madison.

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About Chris Kolmar

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