Wealthy in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam take flak but vital to HV economy
Photo credit: Xavier Mascarenas | Shoppers walk past stores with bags of purchases from The Westchester mall in White Plains the day after Christmas. (Dec. 26, 2012)
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High-income households in New York
Average personal income by county
Westchester's in the money.
The county has the 13th-greatest concentration of high-income households in the nation -- about the same as Manhattan's. And not far behind are Rockland and Putnam's, according to Census Bureau data obtained by Newsday.
That concentration of wealth helps fuel the region's economic engine, experts say, but also will project the lower Hudson Valley into the...
