US Counties With the Highest Median Household Income
3,208 US counties ranked by median household income, from highest to lowest. First are Loudoun County, VA ($178,710), Santa Clara County, CA ($159,670) and San Mateo County, CA ($156,000). The middle one of the 3,208 has $63,190.
What this measures
The income of the middle household: half of households earn more, and half earn less. It counts all money income before taxes. Since it is the middle value, not the average, a few very high incomes do not change it. Source: Census ACS 5-year.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | US$ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | $106,290 |
| 2 | Maryland | $101,650 |
| 3 | Massachusetts | $101,340 |
| 4 | New Jersey | $101,050 |
| 5 | Hawaii | $98,317 |
| 6 | California | $96,334 |
| 7 | New Hampshire | $95,628 |
| 8 | Washington | $94,952 |
| 9 | Connecticut | $93,760 |
| 10 | Colorado | $92,470 |
| 11 | Utah | $91,750 |
| 12 | Virginia | $90,974 |
| 13 | Alaska | $89,336 |
| 14 | Minnesota | $87,556 |
| 15 | Rhode Island | $86,372 |
| 16 | New York | $84,578 |
| 17 | Delaware | $82,855 |
| 18 | Illinois | $81,702 |
| 19 | Oregon | $80,426 |
| 20 | Vermont | $78,024 |
| 21 | Arizona | $76,872 |
| 22 | Texas | $76,292 |
| 23 | Pennsylvania | $76,081 |
| 24 | North Dakota | $75,949 |
| 25 | Wisconsin | $75,670 |
| 26 | Nevada | $75,561 |
| 27 | Nebraska | $74,985 |
| 28 | Wyoming | $74,815 |
| 29 | Georgia | $74,664 |
| 30 | Idaho | $74,636 |
| 31 | Iowa | $73,147 |
| 32 | Kansas | $72,639 |
| 33 | South Dakota | $72,421 |
| 34 | Maine | $71,773 |
| 35 | Florida | $71,711 |
| 36 | Michigan | $71,149 |
| 37 | Indiana | $70,051 |
| 38 | Montana | $69,922 |
| 39 | North Carolina | $69,904 |
| 40 | Ohio | $69,680 |
| 41 | Missouri | $68,920 |
| 42 | Tennessee | $67,097 |
| 43 | South Carolina | $66,818 |
| 44 | Oklahoma | $63,603 |
| 45 | Kentucky | $62,417 |
| 46 | New Mexico | $62,125 |
| 47 | Alabama | $62,027 |
| 48 | Louisiana | $60,023 |
| 49 | Arkansas | $58,773 |
| 50 | West Virginia | $57,917 |
| 51 | Mississippi | $54,915 |
| 52 | Puerto Rico | $25,096 |
More on median household income
- US Counties With the Lowest Median Household Income
- Median household income 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.