Soaring wealth inequality has remade the map of American prosperity

New data highlights an increasing wealth divide across the United States. pick-uppath/Getty Images

One need only glance at headlines about Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and other super-wealthy individuals to understand that wealth in America is increasingly concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Inequality is sharply on the rise.

Until now, however, little has been known about where the richest households are located, which cities are the most unequal and how these trends have evolved.