US States With the Lowest Total Tax Burden

51 US states ranked by total tax burden, from lowest to highest. First are South Dakota (7.13), Florida (7.25) and New Hampshire (7.66). The middle one of the 51 has 9.57.

What this measures

Every state and local tax collected, as a percentage of what the state's residents earned. It is the broadest measure of what living there costs in tax, and it is not the same as any rate written in law. Source: .

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 personal income
1	South Dakota	7.13
2	Florida	7.25
3	New Hampshire	7.66
4	Tennessee	7.7
5	Arizona	8.28
6	Oklahoma	8.39
7	Colorado	8.43
8	Texas	8.44
9	Missouri	8.47
10	South Carolina	8.55
11	Idaho	8.6
12	North Carolina	8.63
13	Indiana	8.85
14	Montana	8.9
15	Alabama	8.95
16	Georgia	8.97
17	Wyoming	8.98
18	Michigan	9
19	Nebraska	9.23
20	Wisconsin	9.27
21	Arkansas	9.36
22	Alaska	9.46
23	Virginia	9.5
24	Washington	9.51
25	Ohio	9.55
26	Nevada	9.57
27	Utah	9.6
28	Kentucky	9.77
29	Massachusetts	10
30	Pennsylvania	10.1
31	Mississippi	10.2
32	Louisiana	10.2
33	Iowa	10.3
34	Kansas	10.4
35	Connecticut	10.6
36	Maryland	10.7
37	West Virginia	10.8
38	Rhode Island	10.9
39	California	10.9
40	Maine	11
41	Minnesota	11
42	New Jersey	11.1
43	Oregon	11.2
44	Delaware	11.9
45	Illinois	12.4
46	Vermont	12.5
47	North Dakota	13.7
48	District of Columbia	14
49	Hawaii	14.4
50	New York	15.3
51	New Mexico	16.3

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