US States With the Lowest Millionaires' Share of All Income

52 US states ranked by millionaires' share of all income, from lowest to highest. First are West Virginia (5.86), New Mexico (7.88) and Alaska (8.07). The middle one of the 52 has 13.1.

What this measures

The share of all income reported on the state's tax returns that is on millionaires' returns. It shows how much of the state's income is held at the very top. It rises and falls with the stock market, since so much of that income is profit from selling investments. 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 adjusted gross income
1	West Virginia	5.86
2	New Mexico	7.88
3	Alaska	8.07
4	Hawaii	8.38
5	Kentucky	8.64
6	Mississippi	8.72
7	Oregon	9.19
8	Maine	9.29
9	Delaware	9.58
10	Vermont	9.71
11	Iowa	10.1
12	Ohio	10.3
13	North Carolina	10.5
14	Indiana	10.6
15	Louisiana	11
16	Rhode Island	11.3
17	Wisconsin	11.4
18	Alabama	11.4
19	Minnesota	11.5
20	Kansas	11.7
21	South Carolina	11.7
22	Maryland	11.9
23	Michigan	12
24	Oklahoma	12.1
25	Nebraska	12.3
26	Virginia	12.5
27	Idaho	13.1
28	Missouri	13.2
29	Georgia	13.2
30	Pennsylvania	13.5
31	Montana	13.7
32	Washington	14
33	North Dakota	14.8
34	Colorado	15
35	Arizona	15.1
36	New Hampshire	15.4
37	Utah	15.4
38	South Dakota	15.5
39	New Jersey	16.3
40	Tennessee	16.5
41	Illinois	16.6
42	Arkansas	17.2
43	Texas	18
44	California	19.5
45	Massachusetts	19.7
46	Puerto Rico	22.3
47	Nevada	24.1
48	New York	24.2
49	Connecticut	24.7
50	Florida	26.4
51	District of Columbia	26.8
52	Wyoming	29.8

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