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Highest economic output by state

Economic output per resident.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

County GDP divided by population — the value of everything produced here in a year, per person living here. The dollar total on its own would only rank counties by size, with Los Angeles permanently on top; per resident it measures how intense the local economy is. One caveat has to travel with it: output is counted where work happens and population where people sleep, so a county full of offices that empties at night reads very high and the commuter suburb beside it reads low, without either being richer. This describes the local economy, not local incomes — median income, two rows up, is the one that describes households. Shaded on a logarithmic scale: a handful of oil counties with a few hundred residents produce millions of dollars of output each, which is real rather than an error, and on a straight scale they flatten every other county to the palest shade.

  1. 1District of Columbia$270,511
  2. 2New York$116,970
  3. 3Massachusetts$110,522
  4. 4Washington$109,519
  5. 5Delaware$108,669
  6. 6California$103,038
  7. 7North Dakota$102,048
  8. 8Connecticut$98,451
  9. 9Alaska$97,167
  10. 10Nebraska$95,690
  11. 11Colorado$95,120
  12. 12Texas$91,241
  13. 13New Jersey$90,541
  14. 14Illinois$90,439
  15. 15Minnesota$88,456
  16. 16Wyoming$88,424
  17. 17Utah$88,256
  18. 18Maryland$87,984
  19. 19New Hampshire$85,554
  20. 20South Dakota$84,630
  21. 21Nevada$84,472
  22. 22Virginia$83,401
  23. 23Iowa$82,789
  24. 24Hawaii$81,843
  25. 25Georgia$80,574
  26. 26Tennessee$79,418
  27. 27North Carolina$78,675
  28. 28Kansas$78,217
  29. 29Ohio$78,164
  30. 30Oregon$77,627
  31. 31Pennsylvania$77,418
  32. 32Arizona$77,260
  33. 33Florida$77,030
  34. 34Wisconsin$76,637
  35. 35Indiana$75,830
  36. 36Rhode Island$72,954
  37. 37Missouri$72,469
  38. 38Vermont$71,512
  39. 39Maine$71,461
  40. 40Louisiana$71,374
  41. 41Montana$70,217
  42. 42Michigan$69,705
  43. 43New Mexico$69,373
  44. 44South Carolina$67,421
  45. 45Idaho$66,701
  46. 46Oklahoma$65,455
  47. 47Kentucky$65,135
  48. 48Alabama$63,959
  49. 49Arkansas$61,763
  50. 50West Virginia$59,872
  51. 51Mississippi$53,692
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Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis. · How this is built