Here is given the report relating to Poorest States by Income in U.S. Important note that here only the rank locations with the “Median Household Income” information. The rank stated below might not be a perfect or complete list. The locations without “Median Household Income” data are not listed.
All the statistics that given is based on ACS 2006-2010
data. Here stated a total of 51 results.
*ACS
stands for U.S. Census American Community Survey. According to the U.S. Census,
if the date is a range, you can interpret the data as an average of the period
of time.
|
Rank
|
Median Household Income
|
State
/ Population
|
|
1.
|
$37,881
|
Mississippi / 2,941,991
|
|
2.
|
$38,380
|
West Virginia / 1,840,802
|
|
3.
|
$39,267
|
Arkansas / 2,872,684
|
|
4.
|
$41,576
|
Kentucky / 4,285,828
|
|
5.
|
$42,081
|
Alabama / 4,712,651
|
|
6.
|
$42,979
|
Oklahoma / 3,675,339
|
|
7.
|
$43,314
|
Tennessee / 6,234,968
|
|
8.
|
$43,445
|
Louisiana / 4,429,940
|
|
9.
|
$43,820
|
New Mexico / 2,013,122
|
|
10.
|
$43,872
|
Montana / 973,739
|
|
11.
|
$43,939
|
South Carolina / 4,511,428
|
|
12.
|
$45,570
|
North Carolina / 9,271,178
|
|
13.
|
$46,262
|
Missouri / 5,922,314
|
|
14.
|
$46,369
|
South Dakota / 799,462
|
|
15.
|
$46,423
|
Idaho / 1,526,797
|
|
16.
|
$46,781
|
North Dakota / 659,858
|
|
17.
|
$46,933
|
Maine / 1,327,665
|
|
18.
|
$47,358
|
Ohio / 11,512,431
|
|
19.
|
$47,661
|
Florida / 18,511,620
|
|
20.
|
$47,697
|
Indiana / 6,417,398
|
|
21.
|
$48,432
|
Michigan / 9,952,687
|
|
22.
|
$48,872
|
Iowa / 3,016,267
|
|
23.
|
$49,260
|
Oregon / 3,761,925
|
|
24.
|
$49,342
|
Nebraska / 1,799,125
|
|
25.
|
$49,347
|
Georgia / 9,468,815
|
|
26.
|
$49,424
|
Kansas / 2,809,329
|
|
27.
|
$49,646
|
Texas / 24,311,891
|
|
28.
|
$50,398
|
Pennsylvania / 12,612,705
|
|
29.
|
$50,448
|
Arizona / 6,246,816
|
|
30.
|
$51,598
|
Wisconsin / 5,637,947
|
|
31.
|
$51,841
|
Vermont / 624,258
|
|
32.
|
$53,802
|
Wyoming / 545,579
|
|
33.
|
$54,902
|
Rhode Island / 1,056,389
|
|
34.
|
$55,603
|
New York / 19,229,752
|
|
35.
|
$55,726
|
Nevada / 2,633,331
|
|
36.
|
$55,735
|
Illinois / 12,745,359
|
|
37.
|
$56,330
|
Utah / 2,657,236
|
|
38.
|
$56,456
|
Colorado / 4,887,061
|
|
39.
|
$57,243
|
Minnesota / 5,241,914
|
|
40.
|
$57,244
|
Washington / 6,561,297
|
|
41.
|
$57,599
|
Delaware / 881,278
|
|
42.
|
$58,526
|
District of Columbia / 584,400
|
|
43.
|
$60,883
|
California / 36,637,290
|
|
44.
|
$61,406
|
Virginia / 7,841,754
|
|
45.
|
$63,277
|
New Hampshire / 1,313,939
|
|
46.
|
$64,509
|
Massachusetts / 6,477,096
|
|
47.
|
$66,420
|
Hawaii / 1,333,591
|
|
48.
|
$66,521
|
Alaska / 691,189
|
|
49.
|
$67,740
|
Connecticut / 3,545,837
|
|
50.
|
$69,811
|
New Jersey / 8,721,577
|
|
51.
|
$70,647
|
Maryland / 5,696,423
|
Source: USA
