These 5 states are home to America's richest billionaires

Jeff Bezos, who lives in Florida, is the second-richest person in the US, with a net worth of $378 billion. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP via Getty Images Forbes published its 2026 list of the top 400 billionaires in the US on Tuesday. The billionaires have net worths of at least $4.4 billion, and 249 of them live across 5 states. California has the highest concentration of the billionaires listed. Some of the richest people on Earth live in the United States. In fact, the US has the largest share of the world's billionaires, home to nearly one-third of them. But the bar for reaching the upper echelons of American wealth is higher than ever. On Tuesday, Forbes released its annual list of America's 400 richest billionaires , and a record $4.4 billion net worth was required to make the cut.