US Counties With the Lowest Tax Returns Filed
3,141 US counties ranked by tax returns filed, from lowest to highest. First are Ziebach County, SD (207.47), Aleutians East Borough, AK (219.11) and Wheeler County, GA (240.79). The middle one of the 3,141 has 457.12.
What this measures
The number of tax returns filed by people living in the area. Source: IRS Statistics of Income.
This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest counties.
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 | Per 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | 416.54 |
| 2 | Louisiana | 418.18 |
| 3 | Alabama | 423.52 |
| 4 | Arkansas | 426.03 |
| 5 | Oklahoma | 426.18 |
| 6 | West Virginia | 435.62 |
| 7 | Kentucky | 439.09 |
| 8 | Georgia | 450.99 |
| 9 | Texas | 461.13 |
| 10 | Utah | 463.05 |
| 11 | Iowa | 463.65 |
| 12 | New Mexico | 463.68 |
| 13 | Kansas | 465.01 |
| 14 | North Carolina | 465.07 |
| 15 | Missouri | 465.29 |
| 16 | Arizona | 466.51 |
| 17 | Tennessee | 466.51 |
| 18 | Idaho | 467.18 |
| 19 | California | 470.97 |
| 20 | Alaska | 473.97 |
| 21 | Indiana | 475.88 |
| 22 | North Dakota | 476.40 |
| 23 | South Carolina | 477.19 |
| 24 | Illinois | 480.59 |
| 25 | Hawaii | 481.07 |
| 26 | Virginia | 481.37 |
| 27 | Ohio | 482.04 |
| 28 | Nebraska | 483.91 |
| 29 | Michigan | 484.71 |
| 30 | Pennsylvania | 485.19 |
| 31 | Wyoming | 486.96 |
| 32 | Oregon | 487.79 |
| 33 | Washington | 488.54 |
| 34 | New York | 492.60 |
| 35 | South Dakota | 494.68 |
| 36 | Nevada | 498.09 |
| 37 | Wisconsin | 499.71 |
| 38 | Montana | 501.19 |
| 39 | New Jersey | 502.20 |
| 40 | Maryland | 502.39 |
| 41 | Delaware | 504.41 |
| 42 | Connecticut | 506.43 |
| 43 | Minnesota | 507.97 |
| 44 | Florida | 511.52 |
| 45 | Massachusetts | 514.22 |
| 46 | Maine | 516.97 |
| 47 | District of Columbia | 518.75 |
| 48 | Vermont | 519.36 |
| 49 | Rhode Island | 521.17 |
| 50 | New Hampshire | 527.60 |
| 51 | Colorado | 531.15 |
More on tax returns filed
- US Counties With the Highest Tax Returns Filed
- Tax returns filed 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.