{"id":64457,"date":"2025-12-08T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/64457\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:30:11","slug":"affluent-putnam-county-number-2-in-household-family-income-in-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/64457\/","title":{"rendered":"Affluent Putnam County \u2014 Number 2 in household family income in NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARMEL \u2013 Putnam County is home to the second-highest median household family income in New York State.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Census Bureau reports the median income was $101,576 in 2024 which was a 7.2 percent increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>While the highest-earning county in the state was Nassau County on Long Island with a median family income of $107,534, Putnam was followed by Westchester with a family income of $100,863.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounding counties ranked in the top 50 percent when it comes to wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Suffolk County came in fifth followed by Rockland County\u2019s sixth, Colombia County ranking eighth, Dutchess County, ninth; Ulster County ranking 13th; Orange County 15th; Sullivan County 36th.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, Bronx County in the Big Apple is the least wealthy county in New York with a median family income of $38,431.<\/p>\n<p>New York State\u2019s median household income hovers around $85,000.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Putnam County ranked 25th among the wealthiest counties in the United States while Nassau County ranked tenth.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARMEL \u2013 Putnam County is home to the second-highest median household family income in New York State. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33716,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-64457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-median-income","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-new-york-state","13":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}