Share of Households Earning $100,000 or More, by State

Nationally, 40.5% of American households bring in $100,000 or more a year. In Massachusetts that share reaches 51.7% — a solid majority of households — while in Mississippi it is 26.3%. This page ranks every state by its six-figure-household share, with the $200,000-plus share alongside to show how far the top of each distribution extends.

Top 10 by $100k+ Household Share

53.7%

51.7%

51.5%

50.2%

49.6%

49.5%

49.1%

48.2%

47.8%

A six-figure income has become the norm rather than the exception in the highest-cost states: Massachusetts and Maryland both put a majority — or near-majority — of households above $100,000, roughly double the share in the states at the bottom of the table. The $200k+ column shows the same geography in sharper relief: the states with many $100k households are also the ones where the top bracket is thickest, because dual professional incomes cluster in the same expensive metros.

A dollar threshold ignores what that dollar buys — $100,000 stretches much further in the low-cost states at the bottom of this table than in the coastal states at the top, a point the affordability ranking makes precisely. To see where your own household lands in any state's distribution, use the income percentile calculator, and for the city-level version of this analysis, see the cities where six figures is the norm.

Full Rankings

#	State	$100k+ Households	$200k+ Households	Median Income	Bachelor's+
1	District of Columbia	53.7%	26.8%	$109,870	64.3%
2	Massachusetts	51.7%	22.3%	$103,960	47.3%
3	Maryland	51.7%	20.3%	$103,678	43.5%
4	New Jersey	51.5%	21.6%	$103,556	43.6%
5	Hawaii	50.2%	18.5%	$100,389	36.1%
6	California	49.6%	20.5%	$99,122	37.1%
7	New Hampshire	49.5%	16.8%	$99,031	40.6%
8	Washington	49.1%	18.5%	$98,141	39.6%
9	Connecticut	48.2%	19.1%	$95,781	42.5%
10	Colorado	47.8%	17.0%	$95,470	45.7%
11	Utah	47.4%	13.9%	$95,166	37.7%
12	Virginia	46.9%	17.7%	$93,170	42.2%
13	Alaska	46.6%	14.6%	$92,788	31.7%
14	Minnesota	44.6%	13.8%	$89,062	39.4%
15	Rhode Island	44.0%	13.8%	$87,796	37.7%
16	New York	43.9%	17.1%	$85,974	40.2%
17	Delaware	42.3%	12.4%	$84,954	35.8%
18	Illinois	41.9%	13.8%	$83,390	37.9%
19	Oregon	41.3%	12.7%	$83,011	36.8%
20	Vermont	40.5%	11.1%	$81,203	43.8%
21	Arizona	39.4%	11.6%	$79,964	33.3%
22	Texas	39.2%	12.5%	$78,476	33.8%
23	Pennsylvania	38.9%	11.8%	$77,971	35.2%
24	Nevada	38.4%	10.9%	$78,260	27.9%
25	Georgia	38.3%	11.9%	$77,353	34.9%
26	Wisconsin	37.7%	9.2%	$77,485	33.4%
27	Nebraska	37.3%	9.4%	$76,475	34.6%
28	Idaho	37.2%	9.2%	$77,800	31.8%
29	North Dakota	37.2%	9.6%	$76,657	32.7%
30	Wyoming	37.0%	8.5%	$76,176	30.6%
31	Maine	36.8%	9.4%	$74,733	36.2%
32	Florida	36.7%	11.0%	$74,568	34.2%
33	Iowa	36.0%	8.6%	$75,059	31.4%
34	Kansas	36.0%	9.6%	$74,275	35.6%
35	Michigan	35.4%	9.5%	$72,875	32.5%
36	South Dakota	35.4%	8.1%	$75,081	31.9%
37	North Carolina	35.3%	10.4%	$72,388	35.6%
38	Montana	34.7%	9.0%	$72,509	35.2%
39	Ohio	34.6%	9.1%	$71,389	31.5%
40	Indiana	34.0%	8.2%	$71,957	29.5%
41	Missouri	33.9%	8.7%	$70,702	32.4%
42	Tennessee	33.5%	8.9%	$69,595	31.1%
43	South Carolina	33.3%	8.9%	$69,324	32.1%
44	New Mexico	30.9%	7.8%	$64,059	31.0%
45	Alabama	30.6%	7.8%	$63,999	28.4%
46	Oklahoma	30.5%	7.2%	$65,039	28.3%
47	Kentucky	30.2%	7.2%	$63,726	27.6%
48	Louisiana	29.9%	7.8%	$60,756	27.0%
49	Arkansas	28.0%	6.7%	$60,773	25.7%
50	West Virginia	27.3%	5.9%	$59,608	24.1%
51	Mississippi	26.3%	5.8%	$56,447	25.1%

The District of Columbia is included for comparison, although it is not a state.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates.

About This Ranking

All figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates, the Bureau's most reliable dataset for state and local statistics. Because estimates pool five years of survey responses, they describe a recent period rather than a single moment, and small differences between closely ranked entries may fall within the survey's margin of error. Learn more about the data on our methodology page or at data.census.gov.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What percentage of US households make over $100k?

40.5% of US households earn $100,000 or more a year, according to the ACS 5-Year Estimates. About 13.4% earn $200,000 or more.

Which state has the most six-figure households?

Massachusetts, where 51.7% of households earn $100,000 or more — well above the national share of 40.5%.

Is a $100k household income good?

It depends heavily on where you live. $100,000 puts a household above roughly 59.5% of American households nationally, but in the highest-income states it is close to the median — and in the lowest-income states it approaches the top fifth. High-cost states also consume more of it in housing.