US States With the Highest Millionaire Returns as a Share of All Returns

52 US states ranked by millionaire returns as a share of all returns, from highest to lowest. First are District of Columbia (0.967), Connecticut (0.903) and Massachusetts (0.763). The middle one of the 52 has 0.365.

What this measures

Millionaire tax returns as a percentage of all returns filed from the state. Source: IRS Statistics of Income, state data.

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.

Every state

Rank	State	% of returns
1	District of Columbia	0.967
2	Connecticut	0.903
3	Massachusetts	0.763
4	New York	0.732
5	California	0.718
6	New Jersey	0.689
7	Florida	0.65
8	Washington	0.618
9	Wyoming	0.613
10	Nevada	0.543
11	Texas	0.508
12	Colorado	0.506
13	New Hampshire	0.504
14	Illinois	0.499
15	South Dakota	0.468
16	Utah	0.467
17	North Dakota	0.463
18	Virginia	0.457
19	Maryland	0.429
20	Arizona	0.418
21	Tennessee	0.417
22	Montana	0.406
23	Georgia	0.404
24	Pennsylvania	0.402
25	Minnesota	0.393
26	Idaho	0.365
27	Kansas	0.362
28	North Carolina	0.35
29	Nebraska	0.345
30	South Carolina	0.338
31	Rhode Island	0.333
32	Wisconsin	0.332
33	Delaware	0.327
34	Michigan	0.327
35	Missouri	0.321
36	Vermont	0.316
37	Alaska	0.31
38	Oklahoma	0.308
39	Alabama	0.307
40	Puerto Rico	0.307
41	Oregon	0.306
42	Ohio	0.301
43	Indiana	0.294
44	Louisiana	0.293
45	Iowa	0.291
46	Maine	0.289
47	Hawaii	0.282
48	Arkansas	0.265
49	Kentucky	0.243
50	New Mexico	0.211
51	Mississippi	0.211
52	West Virginia	0.159

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