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 Corpus Christi has to offer. Where houses go for over 1.75x the national median and household incomes are 2.35x the national median.
But where exactly in Corpus Christi do the richest of the rich people live? That would be Mustang-Padre Island where the median income is a cool $129,073.
Here’s a look at the top 10 wealthiest neighborhoods in Corpus Christi out of 7 for 2023.
The Richest Neighborhoods In Corpus Christi For 2023
What’s the richest neighborhood to live in Corpus Christi for 2023? According to the most recent census data, Mustang-Padre Island looks to be the richest Corpus Christi neighborhood to live in.
Summing up the median income of those 10 neighborhoods adds up to $516,386. 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 Corpus Christi.
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Richst Neighborhoods In Corpus Christi For 2023 By Median Income
| Rank | Neighborhood | Median Household Income |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mustang-Padre Island | $129,073 |
| 2 | Calallen | $75,208 |
| 3 | South Side | $73,555 |
| 4 | Bay Area | $69,970 |
| 5 | Flour Bluff | $65,928 |
| 6 | Northwest | $62,388 |
| 7 | Central City | $40,264 |
How We Determined The Wealthiest Neighborhoods In Corpus Christi For 2023
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 Corpus Christi.
We ranked every neighborhood in Corpus Christi by median income from highest to lowest. The neighborhood with the highest median income, Mustang-Padre Island, was named the wealthiest neighborhood in Corpus Christi.
The poorest neighborhood? That would be Central City.
We updated this article for 2023. This is our tenth time ranking the most affluent neighborhoods to live in Corpus Christi.
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