Billlionaires

While billionaires appear in dozens of states, the vast majority of extreme wealth funnels into a surprisingly small number of places. In 2025, residents of 38 states and Washington, DC made the Forbes 400 list, but more than half of the total $6.6 trillion represented lives in just a handful of states. Ranked from tenth to first, these are the states that America’s one percent clearly prefers—along with the single richest resident anchoring each one.

Imagine being worth a billion dollars. Now imagine being worth a billion dollars and being under 35 years old. For the 25 people on this list—according to Forbes—they don't have to imagine it, because they are actually living it.

After recently selling $2.5 billion worth of Amazon shares earlier this month, Bezos' estimated net worth is now $192.6 billion.