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The richest metro stations, mapped city by city
DailyMetro has mapped the richest stations of 19 metro networks in 11 countries. Each article ranks every station of one city by how wealthy the area around it is, from that country's official small-area statistics: resident income where it is published, property prices where it is not.
These maps come from DailyMetro, our daily metro-station guessing game. They answer the question riders ask about their own line: which stop sits in the money, and how quickly does that change two stations down?
Every network with a map
Every map, by country
France 6 stops
United States 4 stops
Belgium 1 stop
Canada 1 stop
Singapore 1 stop
South Korea 1 stop
United Kingdom 1 stop
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Each article places every station at the centre of its neighbourhood and gives it the figure of the small statistical area it falls in. That is the wealth of residents, not of the people passing through, so a business district can rank below a quiet residential stop next door. Figures are only compared within one city, never across countries, because each country measures something different.
Sources
Each country's maps use its own official statistics at the finest scale published:
- FR
France: median disposable income per consumption unit, INSEE Filosofi 2021, at IRIS level.
- US
United States: median household income, US Census Bureau American Community Survey, by census tract.
- BE
Belgium: median net taxable income per tax return, Statbel fiscal statistics, by statistical sector.
- BR
Brazil: São Paulo ranks by the median assessed land value per m² from the city's IPTU 2026 Planta Genérica de Valores (GeoSampa).
- CA
Canada: median household income, Statistics Canada 2021 Census, by census tract.
- DE
Germany: no small-area income exists, so Berlin ranks by land value in euros per m², the Gutachterausschuss für Grundstückswerte's Bodenrichtwerte of 1 January 2025.
- MX
Mexico: no small-area income exists, so the ranking uses CONAPO's 2020 urban marginalization index by AGEB, which is why that article lists the least deprived stations.
- SG
Singapore: SingStat publishes no small-area income, so the ranking uses the median HDB resale price per m² around each station over the last 24 months (data.gov.sg).
- KR
South Korea: income is only published by district, so Seoul ranks by the median apartment sale price per m² over 24 months, from the Ministry of Land's real transaction price records (MOLIT).
- ES
Spain: average household income, INE Household Income Distribution Atlas, by census section.
- UK
United Kingdom: mean total household income, ONS small-area income estimates, financial year ending 2023.
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Which cities have a richest metro stations map?
19 cities in 11 countries so far: Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Washington, Brussels, São Paulo, Montreal, Berlin, Mexico City, Singapore, Seoul, Madrid, and London. New cities are added as DailyMetro launches them.
Can I compare the richest stations of two countries?
Not directly. Each country publishes a different measure (median disposable income in France, median household income in the United States, land values in Berlin, apartment prices in Seoul), so the rankings are only meaningful within one city.
Is it the wealth of the people using the station?
No. It describes the residents or the property of the statistical area around the station. A station busy with office workers can sit in an area with few residents and a modest figure.
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