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Released on Tuesday, the 2016 census figures showed Hawkesbury Heights has a median household income of $2270 per week with Yellow Rock close behind on $2206.
Other Blue Mountains towns to break the $2000 barrier for median weekly household incomes were Lapstone, Glenbrook, Warrimoo, Sun Valley and Linden.
Katoomba had the lowest median weekly household income at $976.
The median figure across Australia sits at $1438.
Mount Wilson households are forking out the most in mortgage repayments with a median monthly figure of $2570 for the tiny village.
Hawkesbury Heights household were close behind with median monthly repayments of $2174 followed by the Megalong Valley with $2167.
Medlow Bath has the lowest median monthly mortgage repayments at $1408.
The 2016 census showed the Blue Mountains population has increased by 2828 people in 10 years to 76,904.
In contrast, the neighbouring Penrith council area has seen a population increase of almost 24,000 to 196,066 in 10 years.
Springwood is the biggest Blue Mountains town with a population of 8475 followed by Katoomba with 7964 residents.
Blaxland isn’t far behind with a population of 7451 followed by Winmalee with 6202.
Mount Wilson is the smallest village with just 99 people. It also has the biggest gender gap with 56 per cent of the population male and 44 per cent female.
The census also showed we are getting older with the median age of Blue Mountains residents increasing from 39 in 2006 to 44 in 2016.
Mount Wilson has the oldest residents (median age of 54) followed by Leura (median age of 52).
Hawkesbury Heights has the youngest median age at 36 followed by Warrimoo at 38.
