US States With the Highest Total Tax Burden

51 US states ranked by total tax burden, from highest to lowest. First are New Mexico (16.3), New York (15.3) and Hawaii (14.4). The middle one of the 51 has 9.57.

What this measures

Every state and local tax collected, as a percentage of what the state's residents earned. It is the broadest measure of what living there costs in tax, and it is not the same as any rate written in law. Source: .

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 personal income
1	New Mexico	16.3
2	New York	15.3
3	Hawaii	14.4
4	District of Columbia	14
5	North Dakota	13.7
6	Vermont	12.5
7	Illinois	12.4
8	Delaware	11.9
9	Oregon	11.2
10	New Jersey	11.1
11	Minnesota	11
12	Maine	11
13	California	10.9
14	Rhode Island	10.9
15	West Virginia	10.8
16	Maryland	10.7
17	Connecticut	10.6
18	Kansas	10.4
19	Iowa	10.3
20	Louisiana	10.2
21	Mississippi	10.2
22	Pennsylvania	10.1
23	Massachusetts	10
24	Kentucky	9.77
25	Utah	9.6
26	Nevada	9.57
27	Ohio	9.55
28	Washington	9.51
29	Virginia	9.5
30	Alaska	9.46
31	Arkansas	9.36
32	Wisconsin	9.27
33	Nebraska	9.23
34	Michigan	9
35	Wyoming	8.98
36	Georgia	8.97
37	Alabama	8.95
38	Montana	8.9
39	Indiana	8.85
40	North Carolina	8.63
41	Idaho	8.6
42	South Carolina	8.55
43	Missouri	8.47
44	Texas	8.44
45	Colorado	8.43
46	Oklahoma	8.39
47	Arizona	8.28
48	Tennessee	7.7
49	New Hampshire	7.66
50	Florida	7.25
51	South Dakota	7.13

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