Communities with the highest median income

Sarah Brezinsky Gilbert for the Boston Globe
8. Sudbury
2009 median income: $157,778
1999 median income: $168,215
1989 median income: $145,382
1979 median income: $117,071
30-year change: 34.8 percent
Fun Fact: Babe Ruth lived here in a farmhouse on Dutton Road that he dubbed Home Plate Farm, but sold it after his divorce in 1926.
Pictured: The Old Sudbury Center