Mumbai (Rs 403,059)
Mumbai households are the third most prosperous in India at an average of Rs 403,059 per year.
Household income levels for Mumbai, Chandigarh and Surat) in 2007-8 have crossed the Rs 400,000-mark. This makes income per capita in Mumbai and Delhi well over double estimates for all-India GDP per capita, and roughly equivalent to China's 2007 per capita income levels.
Surplus income rates are highest in megacities with Delhi and Mumbai together accounting for a fifth of all-India surplus income. As much as 29.1 per cent of niche households prefer to keep surplus income at home. (Surplus income = Total Household Income - Expenditure (Routine+Unusual).
Image: Mumbai by the night. | Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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