US states by gini index

Name: US states by gini index, 2021
Creator: U.S. Census Bureau
License: Public domain (US federal government work, citation requested)

District of Columbia had the highest gini index of 51 states in 2021, at 52 index. Utah had the lowest, at 42.8 index. The median was 46.5 index and the figure for the United States was 48.2 index. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest52District of Columbia

Lowest42.8Utah

Median46.551 states

United States48.2History

All states, 2021

CSV Chart (SVG)

index. Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2026-10-10.

Full ranking

Rank	States	2021 index
1	District of Columbia	52
2	New York	51.4
3	Connecticut	49.7
4	Louisiana	49.7
5	California	48.7
6	Massachusetts	48.5
7	Florida	48.5
8	Mississippi	48.3
9	Illinois	48.1
10	Georgia	48.1
11	New Jersey	48
12	Arkansas	48
13	Tennessee	47.9
14	South Carolina	47.8
15	Alabama	47.7
16	North Carolina	47.7
17	Kentucky	47.6
18	New Mexico	47.6
19	Texas	47.5
20	Pennsylvania	47.1
21	Virginia	47
22	West Virginia	47
23	Nevada	46.6
24	Oklahoma	46.5
25	Ohio	46.5
26	Rhode Island	46.5
27	Missouri	46.4
28	Michigan	46.4
29	Montana	46.2
30	Arizona	46.2
31	Washington	46
32	Oregon	45.9
33	Kansas	45.6
34	Delaware	45.6
35	Colorado	45.5
36	Maryland	45.5
37	Maine	45.4
38	North Dakota	45.1
39	Indiana	45
40	Minnesota	44.9
40	Vermont	44.9
42	Nebraska	44.7
43	Hawaii	44.4
43	Wyoming	44.4
45	Idaho	44.3
46	South Dakota	44.3
47	Wisconsin	44.2
48	Iowa	44.1
49	New Hampshire	44.1
50	Alaska	43.1
51	Utah	42.8

Other periods

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About this ranking

Income inequality on a 0 to 100 scale, where 0 is perfect equality.

Eurostat, equivalised disposable income after social transfers (EU-SILC), for the EU and its countries. For other countries use gini_index_world_bank, which is measured on a different basis. For the United States, ACS five-year estimate B19083 measures inequality in household money income before taxes. Census publishes a coefficient from 0 to 1; Invokely multiplies it by 100. The displayed year is the final year of the five-year period. Negative household incomes are treated as zero. This differs from the EU-SILC measure based on equivalised disposable income and should not be treated as directly comparable.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B19083: Gini index of household income inequality (coefficient multiplied by 100). https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2021/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2021-b19083.dat. Retrieved 2026-10-10.

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Questions

Which state has the highest gini index?

District of Columbia, with 52 index in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which state has the lowest gini index?

Utah, with 42.8 index in 2021.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B19083: Gini index of household income inequality (coefficient multiplied by 100). Retrieved 2026-10-10.