US States With the Highest Share of Taxes From Public Utilities

51 US states ranked by share of taxes from public utilities, from highest to lowest. First are Florida (3.57), Alabama (3.55) and Washington (3.03). The middle one of the 51 has 0.761.

What this measures

The percentage from taxes on utility sales: electricity, gas, water and phone and internet service. 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	Florida	3.57
2	Alabama	3.55
3	Washington	3.03
4	Illinois	2.19
5	Hawaii	2.15
6	Nevada	2.02
7	Kentucky	1.98
8	Utah	1.84
9	Ohio	1.8
10	Virginia	1.65
11	West Virginia	1.58
12	California	1.53
13	Iowa	1.47
14	District of Columbia	1.47
15	Pennsylvania	1.34
16	Oregon	1.3
17	Texas	1.29
18	Oklahoma	1.28
19	Arkansas	1.22
20	Rhode Island	1.21
21	Missouri	1.19
22	Wisconsin	1.18
23	Nebraska	1.11
24	Kansas	1.05
25	Connecticut	0.826
26	Georgia	0.761
27	North Dakota	0.756
28	Maryland	0.756
29	Wyoming	0.716
30	South Dakota	0.703
31	Delaware	0.696
32	New York	0.667
33	New Mexico	0.606
34	Montana	0.586
35	Louisiana	0.585
36	Minnesota	0.583
37	Arizona	0.581
38	Idaho	0.501
39	Mississippi	0.458
40	Alaska	0.455
41	Colorado	0.427
42	South Carolina	0.391
43	New Hampshire	0.389
44	Tennessee	0.349
45	New Jersey	0.322
46	Maine	0.279
47	Vermont	0.241
48	North Carolina	0.213
49	Indiana	0.194
50	Michigan	0.172
51	Massachusetts	0.00875

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