US States With the Highest Share of Taxes From Individual Income

51 US states ranked by share of taxes from individual income, from highest to lowest. First are Oregon (42.1), Maryland (35) and Montana (34.3). The middle one of the 51 has 22.2.

What this measures

The percentage from income tax on people. It is zero in Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming, a real zero and not missing data. New Hampshire's 1.8% is its tax on interest and dividends, and Washington's 1.4% is its tax on investment profits (capital gains). Capital gains have no line of their own, since almost every state taxes them as regular income, so they are already in this figure. Source: Census government finances.

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 all taxes
1	Oregon	42.1
2	Maryland	35
3	Montana	34.3
4	Kentucky	32.2
5	Massachusetts	31
6	Delaware	30.5
7	New York	30.4
8	District of Columbia	29.8
9	North Carolina	28.8
10	Minnesota	28.7
11	Georgia	28.5
12	Missouri	28.1
13	Utah	27.7
14	California	27.7
15	Connecticut	27.6
16	Virginia	27.2
17	Ohio	26.6
18	West Virginia	26.6
19	Pennsylvania	26.3
20	Wisconsin	25.8
21	Maine	24.5
22	Indiana	23.5
23	Kansas	23.2
24	Nebraska	22.9
25	Iowa	22.9
26	Hawaii	22.2
27	Michigan	22.2
28	Vermont	22.1
29	New Jersey	21.8
30	South Carolina	21.7
31	Idaho	21.3
32	Oklahoma	21.2
33	Alabama	21.1
34	Illinois	20.7
35	Rhode Island	19.8
36	Arkansas	18
37	Colorado	17
38	Louisiana	17
39	Mississippi	16.5
40	New Mexico	13.8
41	Arizona	13.4
42	North Dakota	6.41
43	New Hampshire	1.76
44	Washington	1.4
45	Tennessee	0.00837
46	Florida	0
47	Nevada	0
48	South Dakota	0
49	Texas	0
50	Wyoming	0
51	Alaska	0

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