The number of million-dollar earners in Mass. is soaring — here’s where they live

Weston Town Hall. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff/Globe staff / File

The number of million-dollar earners among us continues to proliferate.

The Massachusetts Department of Revenue’s latest report on million-dollar earners shows 18,205 tax filings were submitted by residents statewide reporting an adjusted gross income of more than $1 million during the 2017 tax year, the most recent year for which data is available.

(And yes, that’s referring to the number of people with income that exceeded $1 million in that year, not assets.)

The number of filings was substantially higher — up by 12.5 percent — from the previous year’s tally of 16,178 filings.

Looking back even further, the number of seven-figure-earning residents and couples has mushroomed. (The tally of million-dollar filings may include couples who combined their incomes into one figure on joint tax filings.)

There were 10,458 such filings in the 2010 tax year and just 7,895 of them in 2004.

The latest figures mean that for every 1,000 residents in the state, the number of million-dollar tax filings is about 2.7.

In some communities, the concentration is much greater.

Weston had the highest proportion of million-dollar filings, about 47 per 1,000 residents, followed by Dover (37), Wellesley (34), Lincoln (24), and Manchester (23).

In terms of raw numbers, Boston boasted the most million-dollar filings for the year, at 2,523, followed by Newton (1,490), Wellesley (979), Weston (569), and Cambridge (565).

How many million-dollar earners live in your hometown? Check out the maps below to find out. And to see how the latest data compare with previous years, click here, here, here, and here.

(It’s important to note that gross income includes money individuals and couples take home from a wide range of sources, including: wages and salaries, interest, royalties, dividends, pensions, rent collection, and alimony and life insurance payouts. It excludes income from some sources, such as gifts and inheritances. To calculate adjusted gross income, certain deductions are subtracted from an individual’s or couple’s gross income.)

This table shows the figures behind the two maps above.

City/town	Million-dollar earners	Per 1,000 residents
Abington	*	-
Acton	85	3.62
Acushnet	*	-
Adams	*	-
Agawam	*	-
Alford	*	-
Amesbury	14	0.81
Amherst	33	0.83
Andover	300	8.48
Aquinnah	*	-
Arlington	121	2.69
Ashburnham	6	0.97
Ashby	*	-
Ashfield	*	-
Ashland	16	0.92
Athol	*	-
Attleboro	21	0.47
Auburn	*	-
Avon	*	-
Ayer	*	-
Barnstable	95	2.14
Barre	*	-
Becket	*	-
Bedford	63	4.47
Belchertown	*	-
Bellingham	*	-
Belmont	245	9.44
Berkley	*	-
Berlin	8	2.58
Bernardston	*	-
Beverly	119	2.87
Billerica	25	0.58
Blackstone	*	-
Blandford	*	-
Bolton	28	5.42
Boston	2,523	3.77
Bourne	24	1.21
Boxborough	21	3.79
Boxford	98	11.91
Boylston	15	3.32
Braintree	53	1.43
Brewster	7	0.71
Bridgewater	13	0.47
Brimfield	*	-
Brockton	9	0.09
Brookfield	*	-
Brookline	537	9.06
Buckland	*	-
Burlington	37	1.42
Cambridge	565	5.10
Canton	89	3.90
Carlisle	85	16.47
Carver	*	-
Charlemont	*	-
Charlton	6	0.45
Chatham	36	5.85
Chelmsford	55	1.57
Chelsea	*	-
Cheshire	*	-
Chester	*	-
Chesterfield	*	-
Chicopee	*	-
Chilmark	6	5.37
Clarksburg	*	-
Clinton	*	-
Cohasset	155	18.47
Colrain	*	-
Concord	364	18.80
Conway	*	-
Cummington	*	-
Dalton	*	-
Danvers	54	1.96
Dartmouth	58	1.69
Dedham	99	3.90
Deerfield	10	1.98
Dennis	18	1.29
Dighton	*	-
Douglas	*	-
Dover	218	36.81
Dracut	15	0.48
Dudley	*	-
Dunstable	11	3.30
Duxbury	158	10.15
East Bridgewater	6	0.42
East Brookfield	*	-
East Longmeadow	33	2.04
Eastham	*	-
Easthampton	6	0.37
Easton	61	2.54
Edgartown	28	6.52
Egremont	*	-
Erving	*	-
Essex	15	4.07
Everett	*	-
Fairhaven	6	0.37
Fall River	8	0.09
Falmouth	64	2.05
Fitchburg	*	-
Florida	*	-
Foxborough	62	3.55
Framingham	64	0.90
Franklin	71	2.16
Freetown	8	0.87
Gardner	*	-
Georgetown	23	2.68
Gill	*	-
Gloucester	69	2.31
Goshen	*	-
Gosnold	*	-
Grafton	34	1.84
Granby	*	-
Granville	*	-
Great Barrington	13	1.88
Greenfield	*	-
Groton	49	4.34
Groveland	*	-
Hadley	*	-
Halifax	*	-
Hamilton	70	8.76
Hampden	9	1.73
Hancock	*	-
Hanover	51	3.56
Hanson	*	-
Hardwick	*	-
Harvard	47	7.18
Harwich	18	1.48
Hatfield	*	-
Haverhill	17	0.27
Hawley	*	-
Heath	*	-
Hingham	398	17.27
Hinsdale	*	-
Holbrook	*	-
Holden	15	0.81
Holland	*	-
Holliston	33	2.28
Holyoke	*	-
Hopedale	*	-
Hopkinton	148	8.85
Hubbardston	*	-
Hudson	16	0.81
Hull	17	1.63
Huntington	*	-
Ipswich	51	3.69
Kingston	24	1.82
Lakeville	16	1.42
Lancaster	10	1.25
Lanesborough	*	-
Lawrence	*	-
Lee	*	-
Leicester	6	0.53
Lenox	23	4.61
Leominster	14	0.34
Leverett	6	3.00
Lexington	512	15.36
Leyden	*	-
Lincoln	159	23.75
Littleton	18	1.85
Longmeadow	124	7.81
Lowell	20	0.18
Ludlow	10	0.47
Lunenburg	10	0.90
Lynn	10	0.11
Lynnfield	89	6.99
Malden	7	0.11
Manchester	123	23.09
Mansfield	42	1.77
Marblehead	223	10.94
Marion	27	5.33
Marlborough	29	0.73
Marshfield	51	1.99
Mashpee	28	1.99
Mattapoisett	25	4.00
Maynard	*	-
Medfield	145	11.50
Medford	30	0.52
Medway	24	1.82
Melrose	50	1.78
Mendon	19	3.17
Merrimac	*	-
Methuen	20	0.40
Middleborough	*	-
Middlefield	*	-
Middleton	42	4.35
Milford	17	0.59
Millbury	*	-
Millis	7	0.86
Millville	*	-
Milton	211	7.67
Monroe	*	-
Monson	*	-
Montague	*	-
Monterey	*	-
Montgomery	*	-
Mount Washington	*	-
Nahant	19	5.45
Nantucket	60	5.50
Natick	141	3.92
Needham	483	15.87
New Ashford	*	-
New Bedford	6	0.06
New Braintree	*	-
New Marlborough	*	-
New Salem	*	-
Newbury	37	5.31
Newburyport	74	4.14
Newton	1,490	16.84
Norfolk	36	3.08
North Adams	*	-
North Andover	133	4.41
North Attleborough	35	1.21
North Brookfield	*	-
North Reading	71	4.55
Northampton	38	1.33
Northborough	40	2.68
Northbridge	9	0.55
Northfield	*	-
Norton	15	0.77
Norwell	121	11.10
Norwood	19	0.65
Oak Bluffs	*	-
Oakham	*	-
Orange	*	-
Orleans	14	2.40
Otis	*	-
Oxford	*	-
Palmer	*	-
Paxton	*	-
Peabody	19	0.36
Pelham	*	-
Pembroke	18	0.99
Pepperell	*	-
Peru	*	-
Petersham	*	-
Phillipston	*	-
Pittsfield	25	0.58
Plainfield	*	-
Plainville	7	0.78
Plymouth	56	0.95
Plympton	*	-
Princeton	12	3.49
Provincetown	14	4.74
Quincy	65	0.69
Randolph	7	0.21
Raynham	16	1.16
Reading	76	2.95
Rehoboth	26	2.17
Revere	7	0.13
Richmond	9	5.92
Rochester	8	1.46
Rockland	6	0.34
Rockport	20	2.78
Rowe	*	-
Rowley	11	1.77
Royalston	*	-
Russell	*	-
Rutland	6	0.71
Salem	10	0.23
Salisbury	7	0.78
Sandisfield	*	-
Sandwich	25	1.22
Saugus	16	0.57
Savoy	*	-
Scituate	105	5.68
Seekonk	18	1.20
Sharon	97	5.32
Sheffield	*	-
Shelburne	*	-
Sherborn	87	20.22
Shirley	*	-
Shrewsbury	98	2.67
Shutesbury	*	-
Somerset	*	-
Somerville	93	1.16
South Hadley	13	0.73
Southampton	*	-
Southborough	137	13.67
Southbridge	*	-
Southwick	10	1.03
Spencer	7	0.59
Springfield	10	0.06
Sterling	12	1.50
Stockbridge	9	4.55
Stoneham	23	1.05
Stoughton	8	0.28
Stow	26	3.68
Sturbridge	21	2.21
Sudbury	278	14.87
Sunderland	*	-
Sutton	26	2.80
Swampscott	93	6.39
Swansea	12	0.73
Taunton	11	0.19
Templeton	*	-
Tewksbury	18	0.59
Tisbury	10	2.44
Tolland	*	-
Topsfield	42	6.47
Townsend	*	-
Truro	*	-
Tyngsborough	14	1.14
Tyringham	*	-
Upton	23	2.96
Uxbridge	*	-
Wakefield	36	1.34
Wales	*	-
Walpole	80	3.21
Waltham	59	0.94
Ware	*	-
Wareham	6	0.27
Warren	*	-
Warwick	*	-
Washington	*	-
Watertown	54	1.56
Wayland	232	16.93
Webster	7	0.41
Wellesley	979	33.75
Wellfleet	*	-
Wendell	*	-
Wenham	46	8.88
West Boylston	*	-
West Bridgewater	*	-
West Brookfield	*	-
West Newbury	24	5.28
West Springfield	11	0.38
West Stockbridge	*	-
West Tisbury	9	3.72
Westborough	76	4.03
Westfield	23	0.55
Westford	80	3.32
Westhampton	*	-
Westminster	*	-
Weston	569	47.31
Westport	24	1.52
Westwood	204	13.08
Weymouth	22	0.39
Whately	*	-
Whitman	*	-
Wilbraham	36	2.47
Williamsburg	6	2.42
Williamstown	16	2.10
Wilmington	18	0.76
Winchendon	*	-
Winchester	351	15.55
Windsor	*	-
Winthrop	12	0.65
Woburn	36	0.91
Worcester	53	0.29
Worthington	*	-
Wrentham	34	2.93
Yarmouth	8	0.34

SOURCE: Massachusetts Department of Revenue, US Census Bureau