US Counties With the Lowest Median Household Income (model-based)
3,143 US counties ranked by median household income (model-based), from lowest to highest. First are Claiborne County, MS ($28,579), Holmes County, MS ($30,542) and Humphreys County, MS ($31,538). The middle one of the 3,143 has $62,851.
What this measures
The income of the middle household. It is an estimate from a statistical model that combines survey answers with tax and government-program records. Source: Census SAIPE.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | US$ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | $54,386 |
| 2 | West Virginia | $55,875 |
| 3 | Louisiana | $58,273 |
| 4 | Arkansas | $58,748 |
| 5 | Kentucky | $61,099 |
| 6 | Oklahoma | $62,120 |
| 7 | Alabama | $62,248 |
| 8 | New Mexico | $62,286 |
| 9 | Tennessee | $67,651 |
| 10 | Ohio | $67,873 |
| 11 | South Carolina | $67,988 |
| 12 | Missouri | $68,484 |
| 13 | Michigan | $69,097 |
| 14 | Indiana | $69,458 |
| 15 | Kansas | $70,316 |
| 16 | North Carolina | $70,838 |
| 17 | Montana | $70,939 |
| 18 | Iowa | $71,662 |
| 19 | South Dakota | $72,794 |
| 20 | Florida | $73,283 |
| 21 | Maine | $73,463 |
| 22 | Wyoming | $73,558 |
| 23 | Pennsylvania | $73,826 |
| 24 | Georgia | $74,521 |
| 25 | Wisconsin | $74,671 |
| 26 | Nebraska | $74,727 |
| 27 | Idaho | $74,859 |
| 28 | Texas | $75,778 |
| 29 | Nevada | $76,332 |
| 30 | Arizona | $77,158 |
| 31 | North Dakota | $77,346 |
| 32 | Oregon | $80,061 |
| 33 | Illinois | $80,346 |
| 34 | Vermont | $80,626 |
| 35 | Delaware | $81,615 |
| 36 | New York | $82,052 |
| 37 | Rhode Island | $83,518 |
| 38 | Minnesota | $85,070 |
| 39 | Alaska | $88,696 |
| 40 | Virginia | $89,864 |
| 41 | Connecticut | $91,477 |
| 42 | Colorado | $92,790 |
| 43 | Utah | $93,030 |
| 44 | Washington | $94,553 |
| 45 | California | $95,473 |
| 46 | Hawaii | $96,716 |
| 47 | New Hampshire | $97,031 |
| 48 | Maryland | $98,568 |
| 49 | New Jersey | $99,716 |
| 50 | Massachusetts | $99,750 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | $104,640 |
More on median household income (model-based)
- US Counties With the Highest Median Household Income (model-based)
- Median household income (model-based) 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.