US Counties With the Highest People Covered by a Tax Return
3,141 US counties ranked by people covered by a tax return, from highest to lowest. First are Glasscock County, TX (1224.30), McMullen County, TX (1219.90) and Garfield County, MT (1194.03). The middle one of the 3,141 has 868.38.
What this measures
The number of people covered by those tax returns, roughly the number of people in tax-filing households. Source: IRS Statistics of Income.
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.
| Rank | State | Per 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utah | 944.32 |
| 2 | Idaho | 929.38 |
| 3 | South Dakota | 925.74 |
| 4 | Colorado | 924.54 |
| 5 | Minnesota | 922.22 |
| 6 | Nebraska | 918.34 |
| 7 | New Jersey | 913.03 |
| 8 | Wyoming | 911.50 |
| 9 | New Hampshire | 911.06 |
| 10 | Florida | 905.20 |
| 11 | Texas | 904.41 |
| 12 | Delaware | 902.80 |
| 13 | Washington | 901.69 |
| 14 | Maryland | 899.89 |
| 15 | Wisconsin | 898.38 |
| 16 | Nevada | 894.43 |
| 17 | Montana | 893.72 |
| 18 | Virginia | 891.70 |
| 19 | Connecticut | 889.32 |
| 20 | Indiana | 888.58 |
| 21 | Maine | 887.32 |
| 22 | North Dakota | 886.65 |
| 23 | South Carolina | 883.68 |
| 24 | Kansas | 883.49 |
| 25 | Iowa | 881.12 |
| 26 | Tennessee | 878.42 |
| 27 | California | 878.02 |
| 28 | Massachusetts | 877.01 |
| 29 | Vermont | 875.16 |
| 30 | North Carolina | 872.56 |
| 31 | Michigan | 871.76 |
| 32 | Illinois | 871.76 |
| 33 | Arizona | 867.05 |
| 34 | Missouri | 865.99 |
| 35 | Oregon | 865.69 |
| 36 | Alaska | 865.12 |
| 37 | Pennsylvania | 864.90 |
| 38 | Ohio | 863.16 |
| 39 | Rhode Island | 862.77 |
| 40 | Hawaii | 859.27 |
| 41 | New York | 857.93 |
| 42 | Georgia | 852.49 |
| 43 | Oklahoma | 842.37 |
| 44 | New Mexico | 836.45 |
| 45 | Kentucky | 834.28 |
| 46 | Arkansas | 833.76 |
| 47 | Alabama | 813.75 |
| 48 | Mississippi | 813.30 |
| 49 | West Virginia | 811.90 |
| 50 | Louisiana | 800.49 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 794.13 |
More on people covered by a tax return
- US Counties With the Lowest People Covered by a Tax Return
- People covered by a tax return 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.