North Michigan News

Wellston ranked 478th among cities in Michigan by annual earnings per resident, according to data obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau in August.

The median income of Wellston residents was an inflation-adjusted $20,938 per year. Wellston had 106 households in 2017, with a population of 265.

The city with the highest median resident income in the state was Barton Hills. Barton Hills's median income was $106,000 per year after adjusting for inflation – $85,062 more than Wellston. It had 122 households in 2017 and a population of 294.

East Lansing had the lowest annual resident income among cities in Michigan, with a median income of only $7,750 per year. That was $13,188 less than the median income in Wellston at the time. East Lansing had 13,585 households in 2017 and a population of 48,281.

The table below shows the top 100 cities ranked by median annual resident earnings in 2017.

Rank	City	Earnings per resident ($$$)
1	Barton Hills	106,000
2	Lake Angelus	76,250
3	Birmingham	64,815
4	Franklin	63,250
5	Pleasant Ridge	60,357
6	Huntington Woods	59,324
7	Grosse Pointe Farms	56,514
8	East Grand Rapids	56,242
9	Beverly Hills	56,029
10	Grosse Pointe	52,766
11	Northville	52,439
12	Bloomfield Hills	52,096
13	Grosse Pointe Park	50,893
14	Crystal Mountain	50,833
15	Eagle Harbor	50,750
16	South Gull Lake	50,429
17	Leland	50,000
18	Plymouth	48,238
19	Grand Beach	48,214
20	Forest Hills	47,350
21	Glen Arbor	46,667
22	Novi	46,392
23	Bingham Farms	44,205
24	Troy	43,687
25	Royal Oak	43,380
26	Grosse Pointe Woods	43,072
27	Dexter	42,259
28	Rochester	42,143
29	DeWitt	41,954
30	Rochester Hills	41,927
31	Berkley	41,883
32	Sylvan Lake	41,688
33	Ponshewaing	41,250
34	Lake Victoria	41,250
35	Farmington Hills	41,244
36	Chelsea	40,944
37	Lake Orion	40,712
38	Farmington	40,669
39	Shoreham	40,217
40	Advance	40,000
41	Interlochen	39,716
42	Freeland	39,600
43	Wolverine Lake	39,253
44	Dimondale	39,063
45	Williamston	38,847
46	Bath	38,162
47	New Baltimore	38,027
48	Milford	37,993
49	Saline	37,871
50	Goodrich	37,831
51	Crystal Downs Country Club	37,500
52	Clawson	36,829
53	Lake Fenton	36,612
54	Oxford	36,429
55	Pinckney	36,409
56	Hardwood Acres	36,406
57	Caledonia	36,319
58	Lake Leelanau	36,111
59	Temperance	36,086
60	Rockwood	35,942
61	Ferndale	35,939
62	Walloon Lake	35,913
63	Haslett	35,833
64	Presque Isle Harbor	35,757
65	Livonia	35,631
66	Byron Center	35,490
67	Brighton	35,331
68	Okemos	35,182
69	Argentine	35,000
70	Horton Bay	35,000
71	Michiana	35,000
72	Empire	34,934
73	Pilgrim	34,722
74	Stony Point	34,714
75	Holt	34,713
76	Grass Lake	34,706
77	Richland	34,375
78	Twin Lake	34,375
79	North Muskegon	34,323
80	Pearl Beach	34,030
81	Waverly	34,029
82	Fowler	34,000
83	Portland	33,761
84	Lambertville	33,750
85	South Rockwood	33,648
86	Allen Park	33,634
87	Lake Isabella	33,550
88	Saugatuck	33,466
89	Woodhaven	33,215
90	Gibraltar	32,935
91	Woodland Beach	32,852
92	Trenton	32,756
93	Rockford	32,654
94	Webberville	32,543
95	Wacousta	32,500
96	South Lyon	32,481
97	Deerfield	32,438
98	Milan	32,313
99	Wixom	32,249
100	Detroit Beach	32,161

* All values are inflation-adjusted