US Counties With the Lowest Mean Income of Arriving Households
3,096 US counties ranked by mean income of arriving households, from lowest to highest. First are Sioux County, ND ($21,793), Taliaferro County, GA ($25,212) and Madison Parish, LA ($26,014). The middle one of the 3,096 has $54,898.
What this measures
The average income on the tax returns of people who moved in. Source: IRS county migration flows.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | US$ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Dakota | $54,547 |
| 2 | Mississippi | $56,877 |
| 3 | Louisiana | $58,224 |
| 4 | West Virginia | $58,478 |
| 5 | Oklahoma | $58,984 |
| 6 | Nebraska | $59,864 |
| 7 | Kentucky | $60,478 |
| 8 | Iowa | $61,586 |
| 9 | Arkansas | $62,968 |
| 10 | Alaska | $63,208 |
| 11 | Indiana | $64,288 |
| 12 | Kansas | $64,714 |
| 13 | Missouri | $65,855 |
| 14 | New Mexico | $65,909 |
| 15 | Alabama | $66,670 |
| 16 | Ohio | $67,188 |
| 17 | Georgia | $70,114 |
| 18 | Minnesota | $70,560 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | $72,166 |
| 20 | South Dakota | $73,753 |
| 21 | Michigan | $74,299 |
| 22 | Oregon | $74,875 |
| 23 | Pennsylvania | $76,192 |
| 24 | Hawaii | $78,183 |
| 25 | Illinois | $78,784 |
| 26 | Montana | $78,915 |
| 27 | Tennessee | $79,460 |
| 28 | Wyoming | $79,611 |
| 29 | Utah | $80,068 |
| 30 | North Carolina | $80,145 |
| 31 | Maryland | $80,923 |
| 32 | Idaho | $80,944 |
| 33 | Vermont | $81,842 |
| 34 | Rhode Island | $82,404 |
| 35 | Colorado | $82,455 |
| 36 | Virginia | $82,948 |
| 37 | Texas | $83,863 |
| 38 | Maine | $85,089 |
| 39 | District of Columbia | $86,659 |
| 40 | Nevada | $87,290 |
| 41 | Arizona | $87,307 |
| 42 | Delaware | $88,167 |
| 43 | South Carolina | $88,208 |
| 44 | Washington | $90,288 |
| 45 | Massachusetts | $90,442 |
| 46 | New York | $94,532 |
| 47 | California | $95,714 |
| 48 | New Jersey | $102,350 |
| 49 | New Hampshire | $108,990 |
| 50 | Connecticut | $110,950 |
| 51 | Florida | $121,230 |
More on mean income of arriving households
- US Counties With the Highest Mean Income of Arriving Households
- Mean income of arriving households 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.