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St. Tammany Parish has regained the No. 1 spot in Louisiana for highest taxpayer income, according to a new analysis of federal tax returns. St. Tammany taxpayers had an average adjusted gross income of $61,820 in 2009, the latest year for which numbers are available.
Of the state's 64 parishes, St. Charles was No. 4 with an average of $57,597.
Plaquemines was No. 7, with $54,191.
Jefferson was No. 17 at $48,609.
St. John the Baptist was No. 37, with $44,125.
Orleans was at No. 38, with $43,651.
St. Bernard was No. 60, with an average adjusted gross income of $34,011.
The national average was $55,147. Louisiana's average was $48,366, ranking it 39th among states and the District of Columbia.
Of 3,137 U.S. counties, St. Tammany ranked No. 203.
In returning to Louisiana's No. 1 spot in 2009, St. Tammany eclipsed Red River Parish, which led the state a year earlier.
The numbers were released this week by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a number-crunching center at Syracuse University in New York. They cover tax returns filed in the first nine months of 2010, for income in the previous year.
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