Hey aspiring billionaires out there. As you make your future plans of where to spend your formative years, making money and creating wealth, there is one place that stands out as the epicenter of billionaires.
But if you are talking about highest collection of billionaires per capita, that’s a whole other place.
Here’s a look at where the billionaires are hiding in plain sight in the U.S…
Logic would dictate that the industries the produce the best chance of attaining enough wealth to become a billionaire are on opposite coasts of the United States.
The tech industry on the West coast, and Wall Street on the East coast.
And you are correct. California and New York are home to the most billionaires in the U.S, with over 100 in each state.
California and New York are home to over 1/3 of the 614 American billionaires.
Let’s start with dome data on Cali. There are 164 billionaires worth a combined $723.7 billion according to Forbes, the publisher of what essentially is the billionaire’s bible every year.
Now that Elon Musk calls Texas home, Larry Ellison owns the distinction of being the richest billionaire in California.
New York is a distant second with 118 billionaires, and again, the richest person in New York may surprise you. Its former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The rest of the top 10 looks like this.
3. Florida (59 billionaires, including Donald Trump)
4. Texas (56 billionaires)
5. Connecticut (17 billionaires)
5. Illinois. (17 billionaires)
5. Massachusetts. (17 billionaires)
8. Washington (12 billionaires, including Jeff Bezos)_
8. Georgia (12 billionaires)
10. Nevada (10 billionaires)
If you want to make history, move to one of the states that currently don’t have any billionaires. That list includes Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota and Vermont.
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