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