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Old Cutler-Hammock Oaks in Coral Gables, Fla.
Mean household income: $596,851
Old Cutler Road, south of Miami, stretches 14.9 miles from northeast to southwest. It starts at the Coral Gables Waterway and creates scenic spaces along which large properties have been built since the road's inception in the 1870s.
Snapper-Hammock in Coral Gables, Fla.
Mean household income: $481,124
The Snapper and Hammock areas of Coral Gables sit slightly south of Miami. Many of the homes are on private lakes, and some are on canals.
Diablo in Contra Costa County, Calif.
Mean household income: $492,897
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Diablo plays home to Mount Diablo State Park on the Pacific Coast.
The popular PC video game Diablo was named after the mountain since David Brevick, the game's creator and co-founder of Blizzard, grew up in the area. Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck also grew up nearby
Jupiter Island in Marin County, Fla.
Mean household income: $493,705
Jupiter Island was a pineapple plantation that shifted hands several times until the start of the 20th century.
Plantation executives began the islands long golf tradition, playing against one another as early as the 1890s.
Incorporated in 1953, Jupiter Island's strict low-density zoning has created one of the most lightly populated barrier islands in the U.S.
Tiger Woods, Celine Dion and Baltimore Ravens owner Stephen Bisciotti all have homes on the island.
Cameo Shores-Cameo Highlands in Newport Beach, Calif.
Mean household income: $554,721
Located across from each other, Cameo Shores and Cameo Highlands each offer about 150 homes. The communities share access to private, gated beaches and Roxbury Park.
Many of the homes are single-leveled with terraces for easy upkeep and so that they maintain an ocean view.
East Lake Shore Drive in Chicago
Mean household income: $593,454
East Lake Shore Drive is a historic district in the Near North Side of Chicago that overlaps with the Gold Coast. The area includes eight buildings built by the architects Benjamin Marshall, a Chicago native, and Charles Eli Fox. The men were best known for their classic luxury hotels and apartment buildings.
The buildings on East Lake Shore were constructed between 1912 and 1929, and are evidence of the city's boom in luxury apartments during the early 20th century. Their style derives from England, France and Italy, and helped establish the apartment building as an acceptable alternative to large townhouses and estates.
Purchase in Harrison, N.Y.
Mean household income: $464,955
Purchase is a more rural area of the town of Harrison. It features winding roads and lots of wooded areas.
National corporations like MasterCard and PepsiCo have established their headquarters in Purchase along I-287, which is known as "Platinum Mile."
In the 1970s, some residents in Purchase pushed for the neighborhood to secede from Harrison and become its own village over concerns about overdevelopment. But the plan did not come to fruition.
Hunting Valley in Cleveland
Mean household income: $507,214
Located east of Cleveland, the village of Hunting Valley has a population of just over 700, according to the 2010 census. It was incorporated in 1968.
The area is the wealthiest community in the state of Ohio. It served as the inspiration for Sarah Strohmeyer's book "The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives."
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