US Counties With the Highest Per Capita Income
3,220 US counties ranked by per capita income, from highest to lowest. First are Pitkin County, CO ($105,100), New York County, NY ($94,922) and Marin County, CA ($90,408). The middle one of the 3,220 has $33,735.
What this measures
All the money income in the area divided by everyone who lives there, children included. It is an average, so a few high earners pull it up, unlike the middle household income. Source: Census ACS 5-year.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | US$ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | $75,253 |
| 2 | Massachusetts | $56,284 |
| 3 | Connecticut | $54,409 |
| 4 | New Jersey | $53,118 |
| 5 | Maryland | $51,689 |
| 6 | Washington | $51,493 |
| 7 | New Hampshire | $50,867 |
| 8 | Colorado | $50,489 |
| 9 | New York | $49,520 |
| 10 | Virginia | $49,217 |
| 11 | California | $47,977 |
| 12 | Minnesota | $46,957 |
| 13 | Rhode Island | $45,919 |
| 14 | Illinois | $45,104 |
| 15 | Alaska | $44,928 |
| 16 | Hawaii | $44,823 |
| 17 | Vermont | $44,365 |
| 18 | Delaware | $44,219 |
| 19 | Oregon | $44,063 |
| 20 | Pennsylvania | $43,104 |
| 21 | North Dakota | $42,474 |
| 22 | Maine | $42,035 |
| 23 | Wisconsin | $42,019 |
| 24 | Florida | $41,055 |
| 25 | Wyoming | $41,006 |
| 26 | Arizona | $40,736 |
| 27 | Nebraska | $40,637 |
| 28 | Nevada | $39,963 |
| 29 | Montana | $39,842 |
| 30 | Iowa | $39,728 |
| 31 | Kansas | $39,638 |
| 32 | North Carolina | $39,616 |
| 33 | Michigan | $39,538 |
| 34 | Georgia | $39,525 |
| 35 | Ohio | $39,455 |
| 36 | Texas | $39,446 |
| 37 | Utah | $39,240 |
| 38 | South Dakota | $38,880 |
| 39 | Missouri | $38,497 |
| 40 | South Carolina | $37,993 |
| 41 | Tennessee | $37,866 |
| 42 | Indiana | $37,178 |
| 43 | Idaho | $37,169 |
| 44 | Kentucky | $34,960 |
| 45 | Oklahoma | $34,859 |
| 46 | Alabama | $34,835 |
| 47 | New Mexico | $34,823 |
| 48 | Louisiana | $34,211 |
| 49 | Arkansas | $33,147 |
| 50 | West Virginia | $32,949 |
| 51 | Mississippi | $30,529 |
| 52 | Puerto Rico | $16,794 |
More on per capita income
- US Counties With the Lowest Per Capita Income
- Per capita 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.