List of U.S. states by income

This is a list of U.S. states by income.

States ranked by median household income

This is a map of median household income in the United States taken from data from this table compiled from fact2finder.census.gov.

Median Household Income by State [1] [2] [3][4] [5] [6][7]

Rank	State	2011	2009	2008	2007	2004-2006
1	Maryland	$70,004	$69,272	$70,545	$68,080	$62,372
2	Alaska	$67,825	$68,342	$70,378	$67,035	$64,169
3	New Jersey	$67,458	$67,034	$68,595	$65,967	$59,972
4	Connecticut	$65,753	$66,953	$68,460	$64,333	$57,639
	District of Columbia	$63,124	$64,098	$67,214	$63,746	$60,681
5	Massachusetts	$62,859	$64,081	$65,401	$62,365	$56,236
6	New Hampshire	$62,647	$60,567	$63,731	$62,369	$60,489
7	Virginia	$61,882	$59,330	$61,233	$59,562	$55,108
8	Hawaii	$61,821	$59,290	$57,936	$54,317	$47,221 (2005)[8] PDF
9	Delaware	$58,814	$58,931	$61,021	$59,948	$53,770
10	California	$57,287	$56,860	$57,989	$54,610	$52,214
11	Minnesota	$56,954	$56,548	$58,078	$55,591	$53,439
12	Washington	$56,835	$55,616	$57,288	$55,082	$57,363
13	Wyoming	$56,322	$55,430	$56,993	$55,212	$54,039
14	Utah	$55,869	$55,117	$56,633	$55,109	$55,179
15	Colorado	$55,387	$54,659	$56,033	$53,514	$48,201
16	New York	$55,246	$54,119	$55,701	$53,568	$52,003
17	Rhode Island	$53,636	$53,966	$56,235	$54,124	$49,280
18	Illinois	$53,234	$53,341	$56,361	$55,062	$50,819
19	Vermont	$52,776	$52,664	$53,207	$51,731	$47,227
20	North Dakota	$51,704	$51,618	$52,104	$49,907	$51,622
	United States	$50,502	$50,221	$52,029	$50,740	$46,242 (2005) [9] PDF
21	Wisconsin	$50,395	$49,993	$52,094	$50,578	$48,874
22	Nebraska	$50,296	$49,520	$50,713	$48,576	$47,791
23	Pennsylvania	$50,228	$48,745	$50,958	$49,889	$46,729
24	Iowa	$49,427	$48,457	$50,169	$48,730	$45,485
25	Texas	$49,392	$48,259	$50,043	$47,548	$43,425
26	Kansas	$48,964	$48,044	$48,980	$47,292	$47,489
27	Nevada	$48,927	$47,827	$45,685	$43,753	$43,753
28	South Dakota	$48,321	$47,817	$50,177	$47,451	$44,264
29	Oregon	$46,816	$47,590	$50,861	$49,136	$46,841
30	Arizona	$46,709	$47,357	$49,693	$47,085	$48,126
31	Indiana	$46,438	$45,734	$46,581	$45,888	$45,040
32	Maine	$46,033	$45,424	$47,966	$47,448	$44,806
33	Georgia	$46,007	$45,395	$47,988	$46,597	$45,837
34	Michigan	$45,981	$45,255	$48,591	$47,950	$47,064
35	Ohio	$45,749	$45,229	$46,867	$45,114	$44,651
36	Missouri	$45,247	$45,043	$46,032	$43,424	$44,624
37	Florida	$44,299	$44,926	$47,576	$46,253	$46,395
38	Montana	$44,222	$44,736	$47,778	$47,804	$44,448
39	North Carolina	$43,916	$43,674	$46,549	$44,670	$42,061
40	Idaho	$43,341	$43,028	$43,508	$41,452	$40,827
41	Oklahoma	$43,225	$42,492	$43,733	$40,926	$37,943
42	South Carolina	$42,367	$42,442	$44,625	$43,329	$40,822
43	New Mexico	$41,963	$42,322	$43,654	$43,531	$38,629
44	Louisiana	$41,734	$41,725	$43,614	$42,367	$40,676
45	Tennessee	$41,693	$41,664	$42,822	$41,567	$40,001
46	Alabama	$41,415	$40,489	$42,666	$40,554	$38,473
47	Kentucky	$41,141	$40,072	$41,538	$40,267	$38,466
48	Arkansas	$38,758	$37,823	$38,815	$38,134	$37,420
49	West Virginia	$38,482	$37,435	$37,989	$37,060	$37,227
50	Mississippi	$36,919	$36,646	$37,790	$36,338	$35,261

States ranked by per capita income

Note: Data is from the State and County QuickFacts dataset from the US Census Bureau.

Rank	State	Per capita income	Median household income	Population	Number of households
	Washington, D.C.	$45,004	$64,267	633,427	261,192
1	Connecticut	$37,807	$69,519	3,591,765	1,360,184
2	Maryland	$36,056	$72,999	5,884,868	2,138,806
3	New Jersey	$35,928	$71,637	8,867,749	3,186,878
4	Massachusetts	$35,485	$66,658	6,645,303	2,525,694
5	Virginia	$33,326	$63,636	8,186,628	3,006,219
6	New Hampshire	$32,758	$64,925	1,321,617	516,845
7	Alaska	$32,537	$69,917	730,307	252,991
8	New York	$32,104	$57,683	19,576,125	7,230,896
9	Colorado	$31,039	$58,244	5,189,458	1,962,753
10	Washington	$30,661	$59,374	6,895,318	2,619,995
11	Minnesota	$30,656	$59,126	5,379,646	2,101,875
12	Rhode Island	$30,005	$56,102	1,050,304	410,639
13	Delaware	$29,733	$60,119	917,053	334,076
14	California	$29,551	$61,400	37,999,878	12,466,331
15	Illinois	$29,519	$56,853	12,868,192	4,774,275
16	Hawaii	$29,227	$67,492	1,390,090	447,453
17	Wyoming	$28,858	$56,573	576,626	221,479
18	Vermont	$28,846	$54,168	625,953	256,830
19	North Dakota	$28,700	$51,641	701,345	282,667
20	Pennsylvania	$28,190	$52,267	12,764,475	4,959,633
	United States	$28,051	$53,046	313,873,685	115,226,802
21	Wisconsin	$27,426	$52,627	5,724,554	2,286,339
22	Nevada	$27,003	$54,083	2,754,354	992,896
23	Kansas	$26,845	$51,273	2,885,398	1,109,391
24	Oregon	$26,702	$50,036	3,899,801	1,512,718
25	Iowa	$26,545	$51,129	3,075,039	1,223,509
26	Nebraska	$26,523	$51,381	1,855,350	721,026
27	Maine	$26,464	$48,219	1,328,501	553,208
28	Florida	$26,451	$47,309	19,320,749	7,147,013
29	Ohio	$25,857	$48,246	11,553,031	4,555,709
30	Texas	$25,809	$51,563	26,060,796	8,782,598
31	Arizona	$25,571	$50,256	6,551,149	2,357,158
32	South Dakota	$25,570	$49,091	834,047	320,467
33	Michigan	$25,547	$48,471	9,882,519	3,818,931
34	Missouri	$25,546	$47,333	6,024,522	2,358,270
35	Georgia	$25,309	$49,604	9,915,646	3,508,477
36	North Carolina	$25,285	$46,450	9,748,364	3,693,221
37	Montana	$25,002	$45,456	1,005,494	405,508
38	Indiana	$24,558	$48,374	6,537,782	2,478,846
39	Tennessee	$24,294	$44,140	6,454,914	2,468,841
40	Louisiana	$24,264	$44,673	4,602,134	1,696,499
41	Oklahoma	$24,046	$44,891	3,815,780	1,439,292
42	South Carolina	$23,906	$44,623	4,723,417	1,768,255
43	Utah	$23,794	$58,164	2,854,871	880,873
44	New Mexico	$23,749	$44,886	2,083,540	763,844
45	Alabama	$23,587	$43,160	4,817,528	1,837,576
46	Kentucky	$23,210	$42,610	4,379,730	1,691,716
47	Idaho	$22,581	$47,015	1,595,590	577,648
48	West Virginia	$22,482	$40,400	1,856,680	742,674
49	Arkansas	$22,007	$40,531	2,949,828	1,128,797
50	Mississippi	$20,670	$38,882	2,986,450	1,087,791

See also

• List of countries by average wage
• Highest-income places in the United States
• Highest-income counties in the United States
• Personal income in the United States
• Household income in the United States
• List of the poorest places in the United States
• Thank God for Mississippi

References

• HUD income breakout by state low/very low/extremely low income