Registrar-se

Pillar of the index

Fiscal standing

How Moody’s rates the state as a borrower: on its general-obligation bonds or, where it has none, as an issuer.

Every jurisdiction ranked on fiscal standing

Fiscal standing across the United StatesAlabama: 92 · rank 18Alaska: 76 · rank 46Arizona: 92 · rank 18Arkansas: 92 · rank 18California: 84 · rank 36Colorado: 92 · rank 18Connecticut: 76 · rank 46Delaware: 100 · rank 1District of Columbia: 100 · rank 1Florida: 100 · rank 1Georgia: 100 · rank 1Hawaii: 84 · rank 36Idaho: 92 · rank 18Illinois: 52 · rank 51Indiana: 100 · rank 1Iowa: 100 · rank 1Kansas: 84 · rank 36Kentucky: 76 · rank 46Louisiana: 84 · rank 36Maine: 84 · rank 36Maryland: 100 · rank 1Massachusetts: 92 · rank 18Michigan: 92 · rank 18Minnesota: 100 · rank 1Mississippi: 84 · rank 36Missouri: 100 · rank 1Montana: 92 · rank 18Nebraska: 92 · rank 18Nevada: 92 · rank 18New Hampshire: 92 · rank 18New Jersey: 68 · rank 50New Mexico: 84 · rank 36New York: 92 · rank 18North Carolina: 100 · rank 1North Dakota: 92 · rank 18Ohio: 92 · rank 18Oklahoma: 84 · rank 36Oregon: 92 · rank 18Pennsylvania: 76 · rank 46Rhode Island: 84 · rank 36South Carolina: 100 · rank 1South Dakota: 100 · rank 1Tennessee: 100 · rank 1Texas: 100 · rank 1Utah: 100 · rank 1Vermont: 92 · rank 18Virginia: 100 · rank 1Washington: 100 · rank 1West Virginia: 84 · rank 36Wisconsin: 92 · rank 18Wyoming: 92 · rank 18
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. 1UT Utah100
  2. 1WA Washington100
  3. 1FL Florida100
  4. 1TX Texas100
  5. 1NC North Carolina100
  6. 1MD Maryland100
  7. 1VA Virginia100
  8. 1MO Missouri100
  9. 1SD South Dakota100
  10. 1IA Iowa100
  11. 1TN Tennessee100
  12. 1DC Washington, D.C.100
  13. 1DE Delaware100
  14. 1MN Minnesota100
  15. 1GA Georgia100
  16. 1SC South Carolina100
  17. 1IN Indiana100
  18. 18CO Colorado92
  19. 18NH New Hampshire92
  20. 18VT Vermont92
  21. 18NE Nebraska92
  22. 18MA Massachusetts92
  23. 18NY New York92
  24. 18WI Wisconsin92
  25. 18WY Wyoming92
  26. 18MI Michigan92
  27. 18AZ Arizona92
  28. 18MT Montana92
  29. 18OH Ohio92
  30. 18ND North Dakota92
  31. 18OR Oregon92
  32. 18ID Idaho92
  33. 18NV Nevada92
  34. 18AL Alabama92
  35. 18AR Arkansas92
  36. 36HI Hawaii84
  37. 36CA California84
  38. 36KS Kansas84
  39. 36OK Oklahoma84
  40. 36ME Maine84
  41. 36MS Mississippi84
  42. 36RI Rhode Island84
  43. 36LA Louisiana84
  44. 36WV West Virginia84
  45. 36NM New Mexico84
  46. 46CT Connecticut76
  47. 46PA Pennsylvania76
  48. 46KY Kentucky76
  49. 46AK Alaska76
  50. 50NJ New Jersey68
  51. 51IL Illinois52

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 fiscal standing score rests on a single indicator, and below are its two ends 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
Credit ratingAaa · StableDelaware and 16 others, tiedA3 · StableIllinoisMoody's, indicative 2025

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

Fiscal standing — every state ranked — Applied America