Massachusetts has the highest estimate ($99,122); West Virginia has the lowest ($67,933). Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS income / BEA price parity, 2024.
Data year: 2024Source released Feb. 19, 2026·Last updated Oct. 23, 2026GCT1901 / SARPP line 1
50 ranked states; DC and Puerto Rico appear as reference rows where the source supplies them. Highest does not mean best.
Lowest state estimate$67,933West Virginia
Highest state estimate$99,122Massachusetts
Each dot is a state. The scale runs from the lowest to highest estimate;
intervals are not shown here. Read about uncertainty.
State distribution and comparisons
The middle of the 50-state distribution is $82,245: the average of the 25th and 26th ordered state estimates. This treats each state equally, so it answers a different question from a population-weighted national estimate.
How does this compare with income before price adjustment?
These states’ ranks change the most between price-adjusted median household income and median household income. These comparisons identify different questions worth investigating; a rank gap does not measure a causal effect or a statistical difference between unlike units.
2024 ACS median household income divided by the 2024 BEA all-items regional price parity (index / 100). Values express purchasing power at the national price level.
A derived adjustment of a state household median, not BEA real personal income, disposable income, or the median of individual price-adjusted household budgets. Uncertainty from the price index is not quantified; no combined survey MOE is presented.
The size of the gap
The difference between the highest and lowest state estimates is $31,189. The U.S. benchmark is $81,604. It is not a simple average of the states.
27 states have point estimates above the U.S. benchmark and 23 below it. These counts do not establish statistical significance.
How much should you read into a rank?
BEA does not publish margins of error for price parities, and our price adjustment does not combine the uncertainty of its two inputs. “Not published” means uncertainty is not quantified here, not that the estimates are exact.
Ranks use the full precision of the source file, so only truly equal values share a rank (1, 2, 2, 4).
ACS median household income / (BEA all-items RPP / 100). Rank = 1 + number of eligible jurisdictions with a higher value.
Coverage
The 50 states are ranked. Washington, D.C., can be added with the toggle above the table; Puerto Rico is shown for reference only, where the source covers it.
Cadence
Annual. 2025 ACS 1-year estimates scheduled for October 29, 2026 (Census ACS updates page); adoption follows editorial review.
Independence
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Last updated Oct. 23, 2026. Earlier editions stay available on the data page, and every change is listed in the update log. If a number or definition looks wrong, report an error with the state, value, and source you checked.
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State distributions: each mark is one state, from lowest to highest. Each row
uses its own scale.