US States With the Lowest Real Income per Person, Adjusted for Local Prices

51 US states ranked by real income per person, adjusted for local prices, from lowest to highest. First are Mississippi (47,517), West Virginia (49,071) and New Mexico (50,620). The middle one of the 51 has 57,242.

What this measures

Income per person after allowing for how expensive the state is. The Bureau of Economic Analysis takes all the income residents receive, divides it by the state's price level and by the rise in US prices since 2017, then by the number of residents. The result is in 2017 dollars that buy about the same amount in every state. For states only. Source: BEA Regional Price Parities.

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	2017 US$
1	Mississippi	47,517
2	West Virginia	49,071
3	New Mexico	50,620
4	Alabama	50,902
5	Hawaii	50,923
6	South Carolina	51,320
7	Kentucky	51,428
8	Georgia	51,643
9	Arizona	51,960
10	Idaho	53,302
11	Oregon	53,455
12	Michigan	53,903
13	Arkansas	54,094
14	Delaware	54,314
15	North Carolina	54,748
16	Rhode Island	55,140
17	Louisiana	55,235
18	Indiana	55,353
19	Maine	55,480
20	Ohio	55,789
21	Utah	55,999
22	Florida	56,138
23	Nevada	56,600
24	Missouri	56,912
25	Oklahoma	56,986
26	Tennessee	57,242
27	Texas	57,708
28	Wisconsin	57,791
29	Pennsylvania	58,027
30	Vermont	58,061
31	Alaska	58,204
32	Iowa	58,646
33	Kansas	58,664
34	Maryland	59,922
35	California	60,100
36	Illinois	60,348
37	Montana	60,386
38	Virginia	60,556
39	Minnesota	61,394
40	Washington	62,138
41	New Jersey	62,191
42	New Hampshire	62,459
43	New York	63,093
44	Colorado	65,363
45	Nebraska	65,780
46	North Dakota	67,383
47	Massachusetts	69,372
48	South Dakota	69,861
49	Connecticut	71,915
50	Wyoming	75,323
51	District of Columbia	79,990

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