And the winner is....
Northville.
The website RoadSnack puts together a list of the 10 Snobbiest Places In Michigan and Northville ends up on top, followed by Rochester, Plymouth and Royal Oak.
Ultimately, snobby is in the eye of the beholder.
But Chris Kolmar of RoadSnack writes that the listing was based on more than pure-gut instinct.
He writes:
We started by making a list of every place in Michigan over 5,000 people based on the 2013 American Community Survey. That left us with 61 places in Michigan.
We then looked at the following snob-tastic criteria for each of the places on the list:
- Median home price (Higher is snobbier)
- Median household income (Higher is snobbier)
- Percent of population with a college degree (Higher is snobbier)
- Private schools per capita (Higher is snobbier)
- Theaters per capita (Higher is snobbier)
- Art galleries per capita (Higher is snobbier)
Of Northville, he writes:
There are snootty places, then there are snobby places, and then there’s Northville. The King of the North has nothing on the self aggrandizing that goes in the uncontested most snobby place to live in Michigan.
The small town combines unparalleled wealth (The highest median household income in Michigan) with expensive homes (2nd highest in Michigan) to create an enclave of snobbery.
It’s probably the kind of place where you need to belong to the right book club and your kids have to go to private school, where it ranks as having the 3rd most per capita in the Great Lake State.
