Income Inequality Has Soared The Most In These 101 U.S. Cities

Skyline of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which is one of the largest cities to witness ever-expanding wealth inequality.Getty

Every city possesses an economic divide, but the gap is more severe in some parts of the country than others. In many cases, residents in the top and bottom income brackets reside in the same area, but that’s where the similarities end. With the release of the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest demographic data in October this year — the 2017 American Community Survey — a fresh analysis of American wealth inequality has been conducted.

Cities analyzed included those with at least 50,000 people aged 16-years or older. Read on to find out which cities are gripped by the worst wealth inequality in the nation.

Cities Experiencing the Largest Growth in Wealth Inequality

Currently, according to the latest Census Bureau data, the U.S. overall has a Gini coefficient of 0.4815. So, any city that has a higher Gini coefficient than that is suffering from worse wealth inequality than the U.S. as a whole. The table below provides a full breakdown of the 101 cities, with their Gini coefficients for 2017, 2016 and 2015, as well as the percentage it changed by over the course of two years. Bolded cities and Gini numbers mean inequality is higher than the national average.

Click on states to see an interactive map of their wealth inequality by county.

Gini Index				U.S. = 0.4815	U.S. = 0.4804	U.S. = 0.4787
Rank	City	State	2-Year Increase	Gini Index 2017	Gini Index 2016	Gini Index 2015
1	Sugar Land	Texas	5.70%	0.4695	0.4533	0.4441
2	Folsom	California	5.30%	0.3908	0.3868	0.3713
3	Wilmington	Delaware	5.10%	0.5514	0.5400	0.5245
4	Indio	California	4.70%	0.4705	0.4548	0.4493
5	Chico	California	4.60%	0.4956	0.4863	0.4737
6	Schaumburg	Illinois	4.50%	0.3924	0.3775	0.3754
7	Rapid City, SD	South Dakota	4.50%	0.4690	0.4605	0.4487
8	North Little Rock	Arkansas	4.10%	0.4931	0.4805	0.4735
9	Chula Vista	California	4.00%	0.4365	0.4222	0.4197
10	Gastonia	North Carolina	3.90%	0.4855	0.4784	0.4671
11	Torrance	California	3.90%	0.4408	0.4372	0.4242
12	Camarillo	California	3.90%	0.4347	0.4199	0.4185
13	Surprise, AZ	Arizona	3.80%	0.3753	0.3659	0.3614
14	Shreveport	Louisiana	3.80%	0.5340	0.5227	0.5144
15	Flower Mound	Texas	3.80%	0.3692	0.3691	0.3557
16	Conway, AR	Arkansas	3.70%	0.4758	0.4669	0.4587
17	Baton Rouge	Louisiana	3.70%	0.5328	0.5311	0.5140
18	Kenosha	Wisconsin	3.60%	0.4493	0.4407	0.4336
19	Cheektowaga	New York	3.60%	0.4037	0.3907	0.3898
20	Las Cruces	New Mexico	3.50%	0.4880	0.4756	0.4715
21	Burbank	California	3.50%	0.4597	0.4533	0.4442
22	Lakeland	Florida	3.50%	0.4662	0.4619	0.4506
23	Tustin	California	3.40%	0.4530	0.4414	0.4379
24	Missoula	Montana	3.40%	0.4867	0.4812	0.4706
25	Perris	California	3.40%	0.3833	0.3766	0.3707
26	San Leandro	California	3.40%	0.4341	0.4254	0.4199
27	Waterbury	Connecticut	3.30%	0.4784	0.4712	0.4629
28	Westminster	California	3.30%	0.4727	0.4597	0.4575
29	North Charleston	South Carolina	3.30%	0.4548	0.4469	0.4403
30	Turlock	California	3.30%	0.4618	0.4567	0.4472
31	Lewisville	Texas	3.20%	0.3907	0.3859	0.3785
32	Redding	California	3.20%	0.4731	0.4634	0.4585
33	Urban Honolulu	Hawaii	3.20%	0.4703	0.4631	0.4558
34	Alhambra	California	3.10%	0.4651	0.456	0.4509
35	Corona	California	3.10%	0.4242	0.4204	0.4114
36	Elk Grove	California	3.10%	0.4102	0.4042	0.3979
37	Champaign	Illinois	3.10%	0.5504	0.5311	0.5341
38	Irvine	California	3.00%	0.4681	0.4656	0.4543
39	Lorain	Ohio	3.00%	0.4578	0.4543	0.4445
40	Menifee	California	3.00%	0.4102	0.4046	0.3984
41	Visalia	California	2.90%	0.4545	0.4552	0.4415
42	Hoover	Alabama	2.90%	0.4415	0.44	0.4289
43	Toms River	New Jersey	2.90%	0.4399	0.4344	0.4277
44	Bayonne	New Jersey	2.90%	0.4583	0.4514	0.4456
45	Merced	California	2.80%	0.4823	0.4744	0.4693
46	Glendale	California	2.80%	0.5032	0.4944	0.4897
47	Odessa	Texas	2.70%	0.4546	0.4597	0.4425
48	Rancho Cordova	California	2.70%	0.4228	0.4152	0.4116
49	Carson	California	2.70%	0.3916	0.3848	0.3813
50	Livermore	California	2.70%	0.4073	0.4017	0.3966
51	Framingham	Massachusetts	2.70%	0.464	0.4572	0.4519
52	Newark	New Jersey	2.60%	0.4889	0.4812	0.4764
53	Schenectady	New York	2.60%	0.4433	0.4445	0.432
54	Appleton	Wisconsin	2.60%	0.4415	0.4359	0.4303
55	Miramar	Florida	2.60%	0.4022	0.3967	0.392
56	Davenport	Iowa	2.60%	0.4462	0.4438	0.435
57	Santa Monica	California	2.60%	0.5369	0.5267	0.5235
58	Murrieta	California	2.60%	0.4140	0.4084	0.4037
59	Boise City	Idaho	2.50%	0.4816	0.4802	0.4698
60	Hesperia	California	2.50%	0.4292	0.4321	0.4187
61	New Bedford	Massachusetts	2.50%	0.4700	0.4585	0.4587
62	Sunnyvale	California	2.50%	0.4380	0.4321	0.4275
63	Worcester	Massachusetts	2.40%	0.4969	0.4910	0.4851
64	Vancouver	Washington	2.40%	0.4340	0.4321	0.4237
65	Cicero	Illinois	2.40%	0.3962	0.4048	0.3868
66	Paradise	Nevada	2.40%	0.4545	0.4509	0.4438
67	Ontario	California	2.40%	0.4036	0.4008	0.3943
68	Jersey City	New Jersey	2.30%	0.5110	0.5075	0.4993
69	Glendale	Arizona	2.30%	0.4586	0.4537	0.4481
70	Fort Lauderdale	Florida	2.30%	0.5562	0.5483	0.5436
71	Spokane Valley	Washington	2.30%	0.4147	0.4082	0.4054
72	San Buenaventura	California	2.30%	0.4329	0.4238	0.4232
73	Sunrise Manor	Nevada	2.30%	0.4371	0.4371	0.4274
74	Pueblo	Colorado	2.20%	0.4732	0.4638	0.4629
75	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	2.20%	0.5215	0.5116	0.5102
76	Buena Park	California	2.20%	0.4151	0.4127	0.4062
77	Bellflower	California	2.20%	0.4437	0.4444	0.4342
78	Warner Robins	Georgia	2.20%	0.4349	0.4319	0.4257
79	Sioux Falls	South Dakota	2.10%	0.4481	0.4437	0.4387
80	Springfield	Illinois	2.10%	0.4905	0.4849	0.4803
81	Westminster	Colorado	2.10%	0.4047	0.4031	0.3964
82	Pleasanton	California	2.10%	0.4157	0.4111	0.4072
83	Skokie	Illinois	2.10%	0.4701	0.4668	0.4605
84	Lakewood	California	2.00%	0.3755	0.3721	0.3681
85	Orlando	Florida	2.00%	0.4890	0.4827	0.4794
86	West Covina	California	2.00%	0.4066	0.3977	0.3987
87	Highlands Ranch	Colorado	2.00%	0.3851	0.3816	0.3777
88	Columbus	Georgia	1.90%	0.4994	0.4943	0.4901
89	Town ‘n’ Country	Florida	1.90%	0.4412	0.4336	0.433
90	Temecula	California	1.90%	0.3893	0.3777	0.3821
91	Shawnee	Kansas	1.90%	0.4178	0.4179	0.4101
92	Buffalo	New York	1.90%	0.4183	0.4061	0.4106
93	Silver Spring	Maryland	1.90%	0.4474	0.4499	0.4392
94	Simi Valley	California	1.90%	0.4152	0.4146	0.4076
95	Mountain View	California	1.90%	0.4404	0.424	0.4324
96	Allentown	Pennsylvania	1.80%	0.4597	0.4527	0.4514
97	Victorville	California	1.80%	0.4350	0.4356	0.4272
98	Warwick	Rhode Island	1.80%	0.4308	0.4302	0.4231
99	Chesapeake	Virginia	1.80%	0.4055	0.4048	0.3983
100	Quincy	Massachusetts	1.80%	0.4397	0.4356	0.4319
101	Hammond	Indiana	1.8%	0.4269	0.4167	0.4194

This article was originally published by Forbes.com. Read the original article here.

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