US Counties With the Highest Returns Reporting Capital Gains
3,143 US counties ranked by returns reporting capital gains, from highest to lowest. First are Harding County, SD (46.6%), McPherson County, NE (45%) and Garfield County, MT (44.4%). The middle one of the 3,143 has 15.3%.
What this measures
The percentage of tax returns reporting a capital gain: profit from selling something like stock or property. Source: IRS Statistics of Income.
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 | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 23.9% |
| 2 | Washington | 23.4% |
| 3 | Massachusetts | 22.8% |
| 4 | New Jersey | 22.4% |
| 5 | Connecticut | 22.3% |
| 6 | South Dakota | 22% |
| 7 | New Hampshire | 22% |
| 8 | Colorado | 21.9% |
| 9 | Montana | 21.8% |
| 10 | Vermont | 21.6% |
| 11 | Minnesota | 21.5% |
| 12 | North Dakota | 21% |
| 13 | Wisconsin | 20.9% |
| 14 | Wyoming | 20.6% |
| 15 | California | 20.5% |
| 16 | Nebraska | 20.4% |
| 17 | Virginia | 20.3% |
| 18 | Iowa | 20.2% |
| 19 | Oregon | 20.2% |
| 20 | Illinois | 19.9% |
| 21 | New York | 19.9% |
| 22 | Kansas | 19.6% |
| 23 | Hawaii | 19.4% |
| 24 | Pennsylvania | 19.1% |
| 25 | Idaho | 18.7% |
| 26 | Maryland | 18.4% |
| 27 | Delaware | 18.4% |
| 28 | Florida | 18.1% |
| 29 | Missouri | 18.1% |
| 30 | Maine | 18% |
| 31 | Michigan | 17.8% |
| 32 | Arizona | 17.7% |
| 33 | North Carolina | 17.4% |
| 34 | Rhode Island | 17.3% |
| 35 | Alaska | 17% |
| 36 | Ohio | 16.8% |
| 37 | Utah | 16.8% |
| 38 | South Carolina | 16.1% |
| 39 | Nevada | 15.7% |
| 40 | Indiana | 15.4% |
| 41 | Georgia | 15.1% |
| 42 | Texas | 15.1% |
| 43 | Tennessee | 14.8% |
| 44 | Oklahoma | 13.8% |
| 45 | Arkansas | 13.7% |
| 46 | Kentucky | 13.6% |
| 47 | New Mexico | 13.4% |
| 48 | Louisiana | 13.1% |
| 49 | Alabama | 12.8% |
| 50 | West Virginia | 11.2% |
| 51 | Mississippi | 10.1% |
More on returns reporting capital gains
- US Counties With the Lowest Returns Reporting Capital Gains
- Returns reporting capital gains 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.