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Highest income of leavers by state

Average income of departing households.

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

Average adjusted gross income of the households that moved away. Neither direction is straightforwardly good: leavers earning more can mean people priced out or cashing out, and the figure says nothing about why they left.

  1. 1District of Columbia$117,226
  2. 2Massachusetts$110,864
  3. 3New Jersey$101,327
  4. 4California$100,397
  5. 5New York$99,412
  6. 6Connecticut$94,741
  7. 7Washington$92,005
  8. 8Illinois$91,318
  9. 9New Hampshire$85,873
  10. 10Colorado$82,027
  11. 11Maryland$79,633
  12. 12Virginia$79,310
  13. 13Rhode Island$79,163
  14. 14Pennsylvania$77,073
  15. 15Oregon$76,963
  16. 16Texas$76,329
  17. 17Nevada$75,612
  18. 18Delaware$74,163
  19. 19Minnesota$73,555
  20. 20Florida$71,952
  21. 21Utah$71,364
  22. 22Arizona$71,212
  23. 23Alaska$70,822
  24. 24Hawaii$70,594
  25. 25North Carolina$68,070
  26. 26Vermont$67,677
  27. 27Wisconsin$67,505
  28. 28Wyoming$66,874
  29. 29Georgia$66,345
  30. 30Ohio$66,322
  31. 31Tennessee$66,128
  32. 32Michigan$65,785
  33. 33Maine$64,914
  34. 34Nebraska$63,145
  35. 35Montana$63,045
  36. 36New Mexico$62,831
  37. 37North Dakota$62,731
  38. 38South Dakota$62,641
  39. 39South Carolina$62,530
  40. 40Indiana$61,692
  41. 41Kansas$61,646
  42. 42Missouri$61,610
  43. 43Idaho$61,228
  44. 44Iowa$60,949
  45. 45Alabama$60,118
  46. 46Kentucky$57,567
  47. 47Oklahoma$56,209
  48. 48Louisiana$54,962
  49. 49West Virginia$53,930
  50. 50Arkansas$53,077
  51. 51Mississippi$50,241
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Source: IRS Statistics of Income, county migration. · How this is built