photo: tracy olson
I was doing some “research” last night and I came up on these numbers. They’re pretty interesting…and if you need the connection, here it is: millionaires & billionaires like to ski and ride, own a lot in Tahoe, put a lot of money into the ski industry, and have a lot to do with the revenue generated in the Lake Tahoe region.
photo: amagil
Millionaires in the San Francisco Bay Area:
– 224,800 millionaires between San Francisco & San Jose Metro Areas in 2009 (and there are thousands more if you added Atherton, Blackhawk, Palo Alto, Woodside, & more to it)
– 138,300 households in the San Francisco Metro Area and 86,500 in the San Jose Metro Area had $1 million or more in financial assets in 2009 (source: Capgemini).
– #3 on the millionaire location list behind New York & LA (#2 if you added up entire SF Bay Area)
– SF Bay Area has at about .07 millionaires per capita, just behind New Yorks .08 millionaires per capita
photo: knsfinancial
Billionaires in San Francisco Bay Area:
– 45 of ‘em in the SF Bay Area (source: forbes) (101 in from California, more than any other state)
-16 in San Francisco
– 6 in Woodside
– 6 in Palo Alto
– 5 in Atherton
– 4 in Portola Valley
– 2 in San Mateo
– 2 in Marin County
– 1 in each of these: Geyserville, Mountain View, Blackhawk, Los Altos Hills
Millionaires in U$A in 2009:
New York – 667,200, +18.7%
Los Angeles – 235,800, +13.3%
Chicago – 198,100, +15.1%
Washington, D.C. – 152,400 +19.3%
San Francisco – 138,300 +14.5%
Philadelphia – 104,100, +20.1%
Boston – 102,300, + 14.4%
Detroit – 89,100, +12.1%
Houston –- 88,200, +28.9%
San Jose — 86,500, +24.5%