A tiny Louisville suburb along the Ohio River, home to roughly 600 people, has been ranked the second-richest ZIP code in the entire country. Glenview, Kentucky, carries an average household income of $702,592, putting it behind only Miami’s Fisher Island on a new national list of the wealthiest places in America.
The ranking comes from WLKY’s Get the Facts data team, which examined five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 2024, the most recent data available, according to WLKY. The station’s data team filtered ZIP codes with a household population of more than 100 and a median income exceeding $250,000, then examined the amount reported by each ZIP code on its federal income tax return along with median listing prices of homes on Realtor.com. By that measure, Glenview also holds the second-highest per-capita income of any place in Kentucky, and its median home listing price came in at $3.2 million, per the station’s reporting.
A separate analysis from IncomeByZipCode, using the same American Community Survey 2024 five-year estimates, put Glenview’s ZIP code, 40025, at a median household income of $250,001 and a per-capita income of $263,334. That site also found that 75.1% of households in the ZIP code earn more than $200,000 a year, according to IncomeByZipCode. Its methodology differed from WLKY’s: the site says it excluded ZIP codes with fewer than 500 people or margins of error greater than 50% of the income estimate, then sorted by mean income rather than the population and median-income filters WLKY described.
A Small Footprint With Outsized Numbers
Glenview itself is compact. The community has a total population of 557 residents and just 227 households, averaging two people each, according to demographic data compiled by Point2Homes. Every one of its 233 housing units is a detached single-family home, the site notes, underscoring the suburb’s low-density, upscale character just outside Louisville…