US Counties With the Highest Local Income Tax Collected

554 US counties ranked by local income tax collected, from highest to lowest. First are New York County, NY (4776.17), District of Columbia, DC (4637.85) and Montgomery County, MD (1844.67). The middle one of the 554 has 101.27.

What this measures

Income tax collected from people by every local government in the place (county, cities, townships, school districts), in thousands of dollars. For counties, it covers census years only (1967, 1972 ... 2022), when every government is counted. Source: Census local government finances.

This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest counties.

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.

More on local income tax collected

• US Counties With the Lowest Local Income Tax Collected
• Local income tax collected 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.