US States With the Lowest Share of Taxes From Alcohol

51 US states ranked by share of taxes from alcohol, from lowest to highest. First are Wyoming (0.0505), Oregon (0.0596) and District of Columbia (0.0669). The middle one of the 51 has 0.259.

What this measures

The percentage from taxes on alcoholic drinks. It leaves out the profits of the seventeen states that sell liquor themselves, which count as business income, not tax. So one of those states can look as though it barely taxes alcohol. Source: Census government finances.

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 all taxes
1	Wyoming	0.0505
2	Oregon	0.0596
3	District of Columbia	0.0669
4	Maryland	0.0743
5	Utah	0.087
6	Iowa	0.0949
7	Idaho	0.112
8	California	0.121
9	New York	0.124
10	North Dakota	0.136
11	Colorado	0.142
12	Missouri	0.146
13	New Hampshire	0.152
14	Massachusetts	0.155
15	Indiana	0.158
16	New Mexico	0.164
17	Maine	0.183
18	New Jersey	0.214
19	Wisconsin	0.218
20	Ohio	0.219
21	Vermont	0.226
22	Connecticut	0.23
23	Nevada	0.23
24	Arizona	0.234
25	Minnesota	0.244
26	Nebraska	0.259
27	Florida	0.273
28	Rhode Island	0.273
29	Mississippi	0.281
30	Louisiana	0.299
31	Illinois	0.343
32	West Virginia	0.345
33	Michigan	0.368
34	Hawaii	0.391
35	Delaware	0.406
36	South Dakota	0.438
37	Virginia	0.461
38	Arkansas	0.545
39	Pennsylvania	0.585
40	Georgia	0.679
41	Montana	0.733
42	Kentucky	0.779
43	Washington	0.809
44	South Carolina	0.846
45	Oklahoma	0.856
46	Kansas	0.869
47	Texas	1.02
48	North Carolina	1.22
49	Alaska	1.3
50	Alabama	1.38
51	Tennessee	1.71

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