America currently has the strongest economy in the world, boasting the largest share of the global economy according to the International Monetary Fund. But with a population of more than 330 million people, America is also the third largest country in the world and its wealth is far from evenly spread. Census data paints a geographical picture of varied riches: affluent towns are often home to those with college educations and lie near large metropolitan areas with high-paying jobs, while former mining, farming and manufacturing hubs, particularly in rural locations, have much higher rates of poverty. We compare life in America’s top richest and poorest towns ranked by typical household income according to the Census Bureau’s 2017 data.