This is a bit of a surprise. Yesterday the Boston Globe publishsed their weekly snapshot – it was on the change in average income, 2007 – 2010. Milton’s dropped by 40%. This is well over twice any other town on the south shore. The next closest was Cohasset’s dropped by ~17% then Middleborough by ~13%. The state average was just 1.5% You can find the complete data set here.