U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday shows Park City is the nation’s second-most wealthy “micropolitan area,” a designation for urban places with populations between 10,000 and 50,000.
The median household income for the Park City statistical area, which covers all of Summit County, is $91,470.
The only other micropolitan area that is richer is Los Alamos, N.M. — home of perhaps the nation’s most millionaires per capita, which also attracts plenty of Ph.Ds and engineers to a national laboratory there. Its median household income is $105,902.
Just behind Park City is Williston, N.D., which saw an oil boom go bust during the five-year period, with a median income of $90,080; Alaska’s capital Juneau, $87,822; and Gillette, Wyo.