US States With the Lowest Millionaire Returns as a Share of All Returns

52 US states ranked by millionaire returns as a share of all returns, from lowest to highest. First are West Virginia (0.159), Mississippi (0.211) and New Mexico (0.211). The middle one of the 52 has 0.365.

What this measures

Millionaire tax returns as a percentage of all returns filed from the state. Source: IRS Statistics of Income, state data.

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 returns
1	West Virginia	0.159
2	Mississippi	0.211
3	New Mexico	0.211
4	Kentucky	0.243
5	Arkansas	0.265
6	Hawaii	0.282
7	Maine	0.289
8	Iowa	0.291
9	Louisiana	0.293
10	Indiana	0.294
11	Ohio	0.301
12	Oregon	0.306
13	Puerto Rico	0.307
14	Alabama	0.307
15	Oklahoma	0.308
16	Alaska	0.31
17	Vermont	0.316
18	Missouri	0.321
19	Michigan	0.327
20	Delaware	0.327
21	Wisconsin	0.332
22	Rhode Island	0.333
23	South Carolina	0.338
24	Nebraska	0.345
25	North Carolina	0.35
26	Kansas	0.362
27	Idaho	0.365
28	Minnesota	0.393
29	Pennsylvania	0.402
30	Georgia	0.404
31	Montana	0.406
32	Tennessee	0.417
33	Arizona	0.418
34	Maryland	0.429
35	Virginia	0.457
36	North Dakota	0.463
37	Utah	0.467
38	South Dakota	0.468
39	Illinois	0.499
40	New Hampshire	0.504
41	Colorado	0.506
42	Texas	0.508
43	Nevada	0.543
44	Wyoming	0.613
45	Washington	0.618
46	Florida	0.65
47	New Jersey	0.689
48	California	0.718
49	New York	0.732
50	Massachusetts	0.763
51	Connecticut	0.903
52	District of Columbia	0.967

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