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State Development Index — pillar

Prosperity

What the average person in the state actually earns.

Prosperity across the United States
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

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