US Counties With the Highest Income Gap Between Arrivals and Departures
3,087 US counties ranked by income gap between arrivals and departures, from highest to lowest. First are Collier County, FL ($157,090), Summit County, UT ($128,310) and Greene County, GA ($110,120). The middle one of the 3,087 has $2,515.
What this measures
How much richer the people moving in are than the people moving out. Positive means the area is trading up in income, whatever happens to its population. A shrinking place can still be trading up. Source: IRS county migration flows.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | US$ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida | $45,264 |
| 2 | South Carolina | $21,571 |
| 3 | New Hampshire | $20,961 |
| 4 | Idaho | $16,814 |
| 5 | Montana | $13,951 |
| 6 | Nevada | $12,468 |
| 7 | Delaware | $11,869 |
| 8 | Arizona | $11,747 |
| 9 | Maine | $11,237 |
| 10 | Wyoming | $10,477 |
| 11 | South Dakota | $10,007 |
| 12 | Vermont | $9,982 |
| 13 | Tennessee | $9,253 |
| 14 | Hawaii | $7,251 |
| 15 | North Carolina | $5,775 |
| 16 | Utah | $5,022 |
| 17 | Connecticut | $3,663 |
| 18 | Arkansas | $3,660 |
| 19 | Mississippi | $3,418 |
| 20 | Rhode Island | $2,941 |
| 21 | Alabama | $2,743 |
| 22 | Texas | $2,710 |
| 23 | Oklahoma | $-1,468 |
| 24 | West Virginia | $-1,959 |
| 25 | Colorado | $-2,006 |
| 26 | Wisconsin | $-2,095 |
| 27 | Georgia | $-2,254 |
| 28 | New Mexico | $-2,565 |
| 29 | Iowa | $-3,209 |
| 30 | Kansas | $-3,431 |
| 31 | Indiana | $-3,448 |
| 32 | Michigan | $-3,894 |
| 33 | Louisiana | $-4,371 |
| 34 | New Jersey | $-4,742 |
| 35 | Kentucky | $-5,200 |
| 36 | Missouri | $-5,685 |
| 37 | Nebraska | $-6,560 |
| 38 | Virginia | $-6,937 |
| 39 | Oregon | $-7,279 |
| 40 | Maryland | $-7,519 |
| 41 | California | $-7,522 |
| 42 | Alaska | $-7,547 |
| 43 | Pennsylvania | $-9,314 |
| 44 | North Dakota | $-10,131 |
| 45 | Ohio | $-10,793 |
| 46 | Washington | $-11,079 |
| 47 | New York | $-12,360 |
| 48 | Minnesota | $-18,642 |
| 49 | Illinois | $-25,648 |
| 50 | Massachusetts | $-25,918 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | $-30,567 |
More on income gap between arrivals and departures
- US Counties With the Lowest Income Gap Between Arrivals and Departures
- Income gap between arrivals and departures by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.