A dozen Orange County ZIP codes rank among America’s priciest places to live.

My trusty spreadsheet reviewed PropertyShark’s list of the nation’s 120 priciest ZIP codes , based on the median selling price of condo, co-op, and single- and two-family homes in the nine months through Sept. 30. The study looked at states excluding Montana, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming, where sale prices are not fully discernible.

California dominated the rankings with 73 ZIPs on the priciest list. Next was New York with 15, Connecticut with seven, New Jersey with six, and Massachusetts with five.

At the county level, Orange County’s dozen members of this tony club trailed only neighboring Los Angeles County’s 17, and the Bay Area’s Santa Clara County’s 15. After Orange County came New York’s Suffolk County (1

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