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Lafayette Hill Leads Plymouth Meeting, Conshy, in Charitable Giving
The Plymouth-Whitemarsh area combined to give $34.5 million in 2008.
On Monday, from "The Chronicle of Philanthropy," which showed that the people of Montgomery County are the most generous in Pennsylvania.
Based on 2008 IRS tax records-- the most recent year for which data is available-- Montgomery County residents gave 4.8 percent of their income, compared to an average of 3.9 percent across Pennsylvania and 4.7 across the entire United States.
After a request from our readers, we decided to drill down even more, and take a look at which Plymouth-Whitemarsh area zip codes gave the most in 2008. The following table shows what we found:
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Median Household
Contributions
Income 19428 Conshohocken
3,966
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$14.6m $3,125 4% 19462 Plymouth Meeting
4,175
$9.7m $2,319 3.6%And just for fun, we took a look at what some of the wealthiest zip codes, in not just the commonwealth but the entire nation, are doing across the river:
Contributions
Median
Household
Contributions
of
Income 19035 Gladwyne 393 $38.1m $28,149 5.4% 19085 Villanova 321 $41.8m $23,590 7.1%
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