The 500,000 population threshold combined with the use of "median household income" is what makes this interesting. Newton, MA has a MHI of $86,000 but its pop

The 500,000 population threshold combined with the use of "median household income" is what makes this interesting. Newton, MA has a MHI of $86,000 but its population is more like 84,000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton,_Massachusetts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton,_Massachusetts The 500,000 population limit rules out lots of suburbs and use of the median eliminates diverse cities with wealthy neighborhoods. I'm not immediately sure what use of "median household" vs. "median individual" means, since I'm not sure what counts as a household. (do 4 young professionals crammed into a small house in Cambridge count as one household?)