List of U.S. states by Gini coefficient

The Gini coefficient is a measure of inequality of incomes (or sometimes wealth) across individuals.

A score of "0" on the Gini coefficient represents complete equality, i.e., every person has the same income. A score of 1 would represent complete inequality, i.e., where one person has all the income and others have none. Therefore, a lower Gini score is roughly associated with a more equal distribution of income and vice versa.

The information was tabulated in 2010 from data from the American Community Survey conducted by the US Census Bureau. Utah, Alaska, New Hampshire, and Wyoming show the smallest income disparities while the District of Columbia, New York State, Louisiana, and Connecticut have the largest disparities in income between wage earners in all income categories.^[1]

In 2010 U.S. income inequality was at its highest level since the United States Census Bureau began tracking household income in 1967.^[2] The U.S. also has the greatest disparity among western industrialized nations.^[1]

List of U.S. states by Gini coefficient of income inequality[]

A Map of the US by Gini coefficient.
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The list goes from the lowest Gini coefficient to the highest.

Rank	State or federal district	Gini Coefficient
1	Utah	0.4063
2	Alaska	0.4081
3	New Hampshire	0.4304
4	Wyoming	0.4360
5	Hawaii	0.4420
6	Iowa	0.4451
7	Nebraska	0.4477
8	South Dakota	0.4495
9	Minnesota	0.4496
10	Wisconsin	0.4498
11	Maryland	0.4499
12	Idaho	0.4503
13	Maine	0.4519
14	Delaware	0.4522
15	Indiana	0.4527
16	North Dakota	0.4533
17	Vermont	0.4539
18	Kansas	0.4550
19	Nevada	0.4577
20	Oregon	0.4583
21	Colorado	0.4586
22	Washington	0.4591
23	Oklahoma	0.4645
24	Missouri	0.4646
25	Montana	0.4667
26	Ohio	0.4680
27	Pennsylvania	0.4689
28	Michigan	0.4695
29	Virginia	0.4705
30	West Virginia	0.4711
31	Arizona	0.4713
32	Arkansas	0.4719
33	South Carolina	0.4735
34	New Mexico	0.4769
35	North Carolina	0.4780
36	Rhode Island	0.4781
37	Massachusetts	0.4786
38	Tennessee	0.4790
39	Texas	0.4800
40	Illinois	0.4810
41	New Jersey	0.4813
42	Kentucky	0.4813
43	Georgia	0.4813
44	Mississippi	0.4828
45	Alabama	0.4847
46	Florida	0.4852
47	United States	0.486
48	California	0.4899
49	Connecticut	0.4945
50	Louisiana	0.4990
51	New York	0.5229
52	District of Columbia	0.5420

Notes[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Census data: Weddings in 2009 at record low level". Associated Press. Retrieved 2011-02-08. A different measure, the international Gini index, found U.S. income inequality at its highest level since the Census Bureau began tracking household income in 1967. The U.S. also has the greatest disparity among Western industrialized nations. ... Three states - New York, Connecticut and Texas – and the District of Columbia had the largest gaps in rich and poor, disparities that exceeded the national average. Similar income gaps were evident in large cities such as New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Boston and Atlanta, home to both highly paid financial and high-tech jobs as well as clusters of poorer immigrant and minority residents. On the other end of the scale, Alaska, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Hawaii had the smallest income gaps.
^ Mark W. Frank (2014). "A New State-Level Panel Of Annual Inequality Measures Over the Period 1916–2015" (PDF). . Retrieved 2020-07-21.

References[]

[1] - Gini index by state for households
[2] - Gini index for US as tabulated in the 2010 American Community Survey
U.S. Census Bureau - Gini index as tabulated in the 2009 American Community Survey

External links[]

[wed-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Census data: Weddings in 2009 at record low level". Associated Press. Retrieved 2011-02-08. A different measure, the international Gini index, found U.S. income inequality at its highest level since the Census Bureau began tracking household income in 1967. The U.S. also has the greatest disparity among Western industrialized nations. ... Three states - New York, Connecticut and Texas – and the District of Columbia had the largest gaps in rich and poor, disparities that exceeded the national average. Similar income gaps were evident in large cities such as New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Boston and Atlanta, home to both highly paid financial and high-tech jobs as well as clusters of poorer immigrant and minority residents. On the other end of the scale, Alaska, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Hawaii had the smallest income gaps.

[frank-2] Mark W. Frank (2014). "A New State-Level Panel Of Annual Inequality Measures Over the Period 1916–2015" (PDF). . Retrieved 2020-07-21.

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