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 Louisville has to offer. Where houses go for over 2.84x the national median and household incomes are 2.69x the national median.
But where exactly in Louisville do the richest of the rich people live? That would be Cherokee Gardens where the median income is a cool $147,854.
Here’s a look at the top 10 wealthiest neighborhoods in Louisville out of 65 for 2024.
The Richest Neighborhoods In Louisville For 2024
What’s the richest neighborhood to live in Louisville for 2024? According to the most recent census data, Cherokee Gardens looks to be the richest Louisville neighborhood to live in.
Summing up the median income of those 10 neighborhoods adds up to $958,261. 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.
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Richst Neighborhoods In Louisville For 2024 By Median Income
| Rank | Neighborhood | Median Household Income |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cherokee Gardens | $147,854 |
| 2 | Cherokee Seneca | $105,002 |
| 3 | Belknap | $103,968 |
| 4 | Brownsboro Zorn | $94,903 |
| 5 | Poplar Level | $91,206 |
| 6 | Deer Park | $89,347 |
| 7 | Rock Creek Lexington Road | $84,889 |
| 8 | Bowman | $83,548 |
| 9 | Highlands Douglas | $80,872 |
| 10 | Hayfield Dundee | $76,672 |
| 11 | Gardiner Lane | $75,718 |
| 12 | Tyler Park | $74,213 |
| 13 | Bonnycastle | $74,157 |
| 14 | Hikes Point | $71,520 |
| 15 | Crescent Hill | $66,632 |
| 16 | Schnitzelburg | $64,487 |
| 17 | Hawthorne | $62,872 |
| 18 | Klondike | $60,629 |
| 19 | Cherokee Triangle | $59,734 |
| 20 | Avondale Melbourne Heights | $59,558 |
| 21 | Highlands | $58,970 |
| 22 | Germantown | $58,611 |
| 23 | Audubon | $58,368 |
| 24 | Bon Air | $58,263 |
| 25 | Clifton Heights | $53,439 |
| 26 | Clifton | $53,005 |
| 27 | Saint Joseph | $52,220 |
| 28 | Southside | $52,078 |
| 29 | Butchertown | $51,603 |
| 30 | Cloverleaf | $51,400 |
| 31 | Paristowne Point | $50,268 |
| 32 | Merriwether | $49,385 |
| 33 | Camp Taylor | $48,462 |
| 34 | Beechmont | $48,301 |
| 35 | Irish Hill | $46,582 |
| 36 | Prestonia | $45,264 |
| 37 | Iroquois | $43,829 |
| 38 | Edgewood | $42,569 |
| 39 | Bashford Manor | $42,525 |
| 40 | Wyandotte | $40,015 |
| 41 | Iroquios Park | $39,828 |
| 42 | Shelby Park | $38,532 |
| 43 | South Louisville | $37,856 |
| 44 | Jacobs | $37,726 |
| 45 | Smoketown Jackson | $36,608 |
| 46 | Parkland | $36,239 |
| 47 | Taylor Berry | $36,000 |
| 48 | Kenwood Hill | $35,644 |
| 49 | Hazelwood | $34,922 |
| 50 | Soutland Park | $32,386 |
| 51 | Wilder Park | $31,434 |
| 52 | Chickasaw | $31,075 |
| 53 | Limerick | $31,052 |
| 54 | Shawnee | $30,966 |
| 55 | Algonquin | $30,768 |
| 56 | Hallmark | $29,949 |
| 57 | Old Louisville | $29,259 |
| 58 | Park Hill | $28,998 |
| 59 | Portland | $28,538 |
| 60 | Park Duvalle | $28,360 |
| 61 | Central Business District | $28,097 |
| 62 | University | $27,879 |
| 63 | Russell | $27,644 |
| 64 | Phoenix Hill | $27,346 |
| 65 | California | $26,266 |
How We Determined The Wealthiest Neighborhoods In Louisville 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 Louisville.
We ranked every neighborhood in Louisville by median income from highest to lowest. The neighborhood with the highest median income, Cherokee Gardens, was named the wealthiest neighborhood in Louisville.
The richest neighborhoods in Louisville are Cherokee Gardens, Cherokee Seneca, Belknap, Brownsboro Zorn, Poplar Level, Deer Park, Rock Creek Lexington Road, Bowman, Highlands Douglas, and Hayfield Dundee.
The poorest neighborhood? That would be California.
The poorest neighborhoods in Louisville are California, Phoenix Hill, Russell, University, and Central Business District.
We updated this article for 2024. This is our tenth time ranking the most affluent neighborhoods to live in Louisville.
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