Rich Block, Poor Block: How Do Neighborhoods In Menlo Park and Atherton Compare?

Drive through Menlo Park and Atherton and you might notice that some neighborhoods are more affluent than others. But just how wide is the disparity between different parts of town?

A new data-based website, Rich Blocks, Poor Blocks provides some answers to that question. The site uses U.S. census information compiled from the 2007-2011 American Community Survey to show median household income and monthly rents by census tract.

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The highest neighborhoods are the blocks between Santa Cruz Avenue and Sand Hills Road, which report median incomes upwards of $227,000 a year.

Nearby, between Valparisio and Santa Cruz avenues, households make about $180,000 annually.

Downtown neighborhoods close to El Camino Real average $90,000 each year.

North, in The Willows neighborhood, average incomes are $114,000.

The Belle Haven neighborhood incomes are just below $48,000 a year.

Down in Sharon Heights, near the golf and country club, median incomes climb to $156,000 annually.

In Atherton, the north part of town has average incomes just short of $200,000. The majority of the city, however, didn't report incomes on the website.

The range for median household income in California is $28,000 to $125,000 a year. The statewide middle-class income range is $53,264 to $68,300.

To see the data mapped out census tract by census tract, visit the Rich Block, Poor Blocks website.


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