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Pillar of the index

Prosperity

What the average person in the state actually earns.

Every jurisdiction ranked on prosperity

Prosperity across the United StatesAlabama: 9 · rank 47Alaska: 52 · rank 26Arizona: 37 · rank 33Arkansas: 7 · rank 48California: 82 · rank 11Colorado: 89 · rank 4Connecticut: 92 · rank 3Delaware: 48 · rank 29District of Columbia: 100 · rank 1Florida: 58 · rank 19Georgia: 37 · rank 33Hawaii: 67 · rank 15Idaho: 23 · rank 41Illinois: 73 · rank 14Indiana: 18 · rank 43Iowa: 26 · rank 39Kansas: 46 · rank 31Kentucky: 7 · rank 48Louisiana: 10 · rank 46Maine: 54 · rank 24Maryland: 86 · rank 6Massachusetts: 97 · rank 2Michigan: 27 · rank 38Minnesota: 75 · rank 13Mississippi: 1 · rank 50Missouri: 32 · rank 35Montana: 53 · rank 25Nebraska: 56 · rank 23Nevada: 31 · rank 36New Hampshire: 84 · rank 9New Jersey: 88 · rank 5New Mexico: 13 · rank 45New York: 85 · rank 7North Carolina: 49 · rank 28North Dakota: 50 · rank 27Ohio: 25 · rank 40Oklahoma: 18 · rank 43Oregon: 61 · rank 17Pennsylvania: 59 · rank 18Rhode Island: 64 · rank 16South Carolina: 22 · rank 42South Dakota: 57 · rank 20Tennessee: 31 · rank 36Texas: 48 · rank 29Utah: 57 · rank 20Vermont: 77 · rank 12Virginia: 83 · rank 10Washington: 85 · rank 7West Virginia: 1 · rank 50Wisconsin: 42 · rank 32Wyoming: 57 · rank 20
A map sizes states by land area, not by value — Wyoming shouts and Rhode Island vanishes. The ranked list beside it is the reading.
  1. 1DC Washington, D.C.100
  2. 2MA Massachusetts97
  3. 3CT Connecticut92
  4. 4CO Colorado89
  5. 5NJ New Jersey88
  6. 6MD Maryland86
  7. 7WA Washington85
  8. 7NY New York85
  9. 9NH New Hampshire84
  10. 10VA Virginia83
  11. 11CA California82
  12. 12VT Vermont77
  13. 13MN Minnesota75
  14. 14IL Illinois73
  15. 15HI Hawaii67
  16. 16RI Rhode Island64
  17. 17OR Oregon61
  18. 18PA Pennsylvania59
  19. 19FL Florida58
  20. 20UT Utah57
  21. 20SD South Dakota57
  22. 20WY Wyoming57
  23. 23NE Nebraska56
  24. 24ME Maine54
  25. 25MT Montana53
  26. 26AK Alaska52
  27. 27ND North Dakota50
  28. 28NC North Carolina49
  29. 29TX Texas48
  30. 29DE Delaware48
  31. 31KS Kansas46
  32. 32WI Wisconsin42
  33. 33AZ Arizona37
  34. 33GA Georgia37
  35. 35MO Missouri32
  36. 36TN Tennessee31
  37. 36NV Nevada31
  38. 38MI Michigan27
  39. 39IA Iowa26
  40. 40OH Ohio25
  41. 41ID Idaho23
  42. 42SC South Carolina22
  43. 43IN Indiana18
  44. 43OK Oklahoma18
  45. 45NM New Mexico13
  46. 46LA Louisiana10
  47. 47AL Alabama9
  48. 48KY Kentucky7
  49. 48AR Arkansas7
  50. 50MS Mississippi1
  51. 50WV West Virginia1

What this pillar is built from, and the range behind the score

A percentile says how many jurisdictions a state beats and says nothing about by how much. The prosperity score is the average of 2 indicators, and below is each one's top and bottom in its own units — the part the rank above deliberately discards. Highest and lowest mean best and worst for economic development, which for some of these series is the lower figure; where an end is shared, the table says how many jurisdictions share it.

IndicatorHighestLowestSource
Per-capita personal income$116,121Washington, D.C.$54,531MississippiU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Adults 25+ with a bachelor's degree or higher65.5%Washington, D.C.24.4%West VirginiaU.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 1-year

Scores are percentile ranks within the 51 jurisdictions, so they say how many a state beats rather than by how much. Adjacent positions can represent trivial real differences; the state profile prints the underlying figure for every indicator.

The whole index

Prosperity — every state ranked — Applied America