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Utah’s Summit County among nation’s 12 highest-income counties — which makes middle-class housing a challenge, Park City’s mayor says

Want to hang out with the nation’s really rich people? You can go to New York, or the Bay Area, or Nantucket — or choose from a handful of ski towns in the Intermountain West, including Park City.

With a per capita income of $121,932, Summit County, Utah, ranked sixth nationwide in 2017, according to a recently released study by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

It was one of only 12 counties nationally — out of more than 3,000 — with a per capita income over $100,000 last year.

Three of the wealthy counties — New York and Westchester counties in New York, and Fairfield County, Conn.