US Counties With the Lowest Mean Income of Departing Households
3,111 US counties ranked by mean income of departing households, from lowest to highest. First are Liberty County, MT ($16,132), Buffalo County, SD ($21,857) and Comanche County, KS ($25,222). The middle one of the 3,111 has $52,487.
What this measures
The average income on the tax returns of people who moved out. Source: IRS county migration flows.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | US$ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | $53,459 |
| 2 | Arkansas | $59,308 |
| 3 | West Virginia | $60,437 |
| 4 | Oklahoma | $60,452 |
| 5 | Louisiana | $62,595 |
| 6 | South Dakota | $63,746 |
| 7 | Alabama | $63,927 |
| 8 | Idaho | $64,130 |
| 9 | North Dakota | $64,678 |
| 10 | Iowa | $64,795 |
| 11 | Montana | $64,963 |
| 12 | Kentucky | $65,679 |
| 13 | Nebraska | $66,424 |
| 14 | South Carolina | $66,638 |
| 15 | Indiana | $67,736 |
| 16 | Kansas | $68,145 |
| 17 | New Mexico | $68,473 |
| 18 | Wyoming | $69,134 |
| 19 | Tennessee | $70,207 |
| 20 | Alaska | $70,755 |
| 21 | Hawaii | $70,932 |
| 22 | Missouri | $71,540 |
| 23 | Vermont | $71,860 |
| 24 | Georgia | $72,368 |
| 25 | Maine | $73,852 |
| 26 | Wisconsin | $74,261 |
| 27 | North Carolina | $74,371 |
| 28 | Nevada | $74,822 |
| 29 | Utah | $75,046 |
| 30 | Arizona | $75,561 |
| 31 | Florida | $75,964 |
| 32 | Delaware | $76,297 |
| 33 | Ohio | $77,981 |
| 34 | Michigan | $78,193 |
| 35 | Rhode Island | $79,463 |
| 36 | Texas | $81,153 |
| 37 | Oregon | $82,155 |
| 38 | Colorado | $84,460 |
| 39 | Pennsylvania | $85,507 |
| 40 | New Hampshire | $88,031 |
| 41 | Maryland | $88,442 |
| 42 | Minnesota | $89,202 |
| 43 | Virginia | $89,885 |
| 44 | Washington | $101,370 |
| 45 | California | $103,240 |
| 46 | Illinois | $104,430 |
| 47 | New York | $106,890 |
| 48 | New Jersey | $107,090 |
| 49 | Connecticut | $107,280 |
| 50 | Massachusetts | $116,360 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | $117,230 |
More on mean income of departing households
- US Counties With the Highest Mean Income of Departing Households
- Mean income of departing 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.