Atherton, California — which sits outdoors of San Francisco in Silicon Valley and is house to tech billionaires and enterprise capitalists — is the costliest zip code within the nation for the fifth yr in a row, with a median house worth of $7.5 million. The city of about 7,000 folks, which is greater than 70% White, is fully residential with 90% owner-occupied houses and no industrial zoning, in keeping with the Census Bureau.
California is house to 70% of the priciest housing markets, with 37% within the Bay Space alone, the report discovered. However the county with essentially the most zip codes on the checklist was Los Angeles County, with 21 zip codes within the high 100.
A zipper code within the prosperous Again Bay space of Boston was the second most costly space within the US, with a median house worth of $5.5 million, in keeping with the report.
Different areas within the high ten embody Sagaponack, New York, within the Hamptons; the enclaves of Medina and Mercer Island in Washington; and in California, zip codes in Santa Barbara, Santa Monica in addition to Beverly Hills’ well-known 90210 zip code.
The pandemic precipitated some reshuffling on the high of the checklist. A zipper code in Miami, which incorporates the unique Fisher Island, noticed a 66% bounce in house costs year-over-year and rose from quantity 23 final yr to quantity 5 on the checklist. It’s the highest rating for a Florida zip code since 2017.
In the meantime, a daily mainstay of the highest zip codes checklist, New York Metropolis, didn’t make it into the highest 20. Final yr marked the primary yr no zip code within the metropolis made it to the highest ten, with the Large Apple falling even additional down the checklist this yr.
New York’s most costly zip code — an space in Soho and Decrease Manhattan — was the twenty second most costly space within the nation with a $3.2 million median sale worth. A zipper code in TriBeCa got here in at quantity 25, with a median sale worth of $3.1 million, in keeping with the report.
