US Counties With the Lowest Per Capita Income
3,220 US counties ranked by per capita income, from lowest to highest. First are Vieques Municipio, PR ($9,346), Adjuntas Municipio, PR ($9,457) and Guánica Municipio, PR ($9,705). The middle one of the 3,220 has $33,735.
What this measures
All the money income in the area divided by everyone who lives there, children included. It is an average, so a few high earners pull it up, unlike the middle household income. Source: Census ACS 5-year.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | US$ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puerto Rico | $16,794 |
| 2 | Mississippi | $30,529 |
| 3 | West Virginia | $32,949 |
| 4 | Arkansas | $33,147 |
| 5 | Louisiana | $34,211 |
| 6 | New Mexico | $34,823 |
| 7 | Alabama | $34,835 |
| 8 | Oklahoma | $34,859 |
| 9 | Kentucky | $34,960 |
| 10 | Idaho | $37,169 |
| 11 | Indiana | $37,178 |
| 12 | Tennessee | $37,866 |
| 13 | South Carolina | $37,993 |
| 14 | Missouri | $38,497 |
| 15 | South Dakota | $38,880 |
| 16 | Utah | $39,240 |
| 17 | Texas | $39,446 |
| 18 | Ohio | $39,455 |
| 19 | Georgia | $39,525 |
| 20 | Michigan | $39,538 |
| 21 | North Carolina | $39,616 |
| 22 | Kansas | $39,638 |
| 23 | Iowa | $39,728 |
| 24 | Montana | $39,842 |
| 25 | Nevada | $39,963 |
| 26 | Nebraska | $40,637 |
| 27 | Arizona | $40,736 |
| 28 | Wyoming | $41,006 |
| 29 | Florida | $41,055 |
| 30 | Wisconsin | $42,019 |
| 31 | Maine | $42,035 |
| 32 | North Dakota | $42,474 |
| 33 | Pennsylvania | $43,104 |
| 34 | Oregon | $44,063 |
| 35 | Delaware | $44,219 |
| 36 | Vermont | $44,365 |
| 37 | Hawaii | $44,823 |
| 38 | Alaska | $44,928 |
| 39 | Illinois | $45,104 |
| 40 | Rhode Island | $45,919 |
| 41 | Minnesota | $46,957 |
| 42 | California | $47,977 |
| 43 | Virginia | $49,217 |
| 44 | New York | $49,520 |
| 45 | Colorado | $50,489 |
| 46 | New Hampshire | $50,867 |
| 47 | Washington | $51,493 |
| 48 | Maryland | $51,689 |
| 49 | New Jersey | $53,118 |
| 50 | Connecticut | $54,409 |
| 51 | Massachusetts | $56,284 |
| 52 | District of Columbia | $75,253 |
More on per capita income
- US Counties With the Highest Per Capita Income
- Per capita income 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.