{"id":70526,"date":"2017-04-04T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bloomberg-durango-is-12th-wealthiest-small-u-s-town\/"},"modified":"2017-04-04T21:56:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:56:12","slug":"bloomberg-durango-is-12th-wealthiest-small-u-s-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bloomberg-durango-is-12th-wealthiest-small-u-s-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg: Durango is 12th wealthiest small U.S. town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:262ee910-b432-45f3-959a-11ed2977e9f3 --><\/p>\n<p>Durango ranked as the 12th wealthiest small town in America, according to a survey recently released by Bloomberg Business.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg based the rankings on four metrics (Durango\u2019s in parenthesis):<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Median household income ($60,278)<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Percentage of households with at least $200,000 in income (3.9 percent)<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Median home value ($332,700)<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Percentage of homes worth $1 million or more (3.4 percent)<\/em>The top three cities on the list were high-end ski towns: Summit Park, Utah; Edwards, Colorado; and Jackson, Wyoming-Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>Durango and Edwards joined other Colorado towns on the list, including Breckenridge (#5), Steamboat Springs (#6) and Glenwood Springs (#8).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinding big money in Small Town U.S.A. is as simple as looking toward the mountains of the Old West,\u201d Bloomberg\u2019s report says. \u201cAmerica\u2019s three wealthiest small communities are located in the western U.S. and tower at elevations exceeding a mile \u2013 with real estate valuations some would consider even loftier.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>high-end ski towns atop the list<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[453,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-housing-and-urban-planning","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70526"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}