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In Household Income Survey, Lake Forest is 14th

A study of 560 U.S. cities ranks the OC suburb near the top.

What's in your wallet? If you live in Lake Forest, apparently more loot than most, according to a new study.

Using census data from 562 large cities nationwide, a financial website called NerdWallet found that Lake Forest was one of just 16 towns where more than half of all households earn at least $100,000 a year.

The only other Southern California city to make the cut was Yorba Linda. (Villa Park was conspicuously absent, but a NerdWallet spokeswoman said the town's population was too small to be included in the study.)

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Lake Forest ranked 14th on NerdWallet's list.

“The Los Angeles metro area features two cities on our list, second most of any metro,” said Divya Raghavan, a NerdWallet analyst.

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Topping the list was San Ramon, a San Francisco suburb, with 63.5 percent of households raking in more than 100,000 clams a year. Yorba Linda was fourth, with 58.8 percent in the 100K Club.

To see the full list, click here.


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