Income Gap By State

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Income gap by state. This statistics shows the states in the united states by their gap between rich and poor as of 2019 as calculated using the gini coefficient. White earners in this state have a median income of 36 884 while black earners have a median income of 36 884. Maine s the 9th worst state for black americans. In california the top state for this metric women took home only about 89 cents.

Black residents of this northeastern state face the largest income gap in the nation. New york had the highest income gap among the 50 states in 2004 to 2006 according to the study with the top fifth earning an average of 148 200 a year or 8 7 times the 17 100 income at the bottom. No doubt this influences the low home ownership rate. With a 62 7 percent income gap wisconsin rounds out the top five.

States compare ranked from most to least income inequality. The average annual income of new york s top 1 is 2 2 million while the average annual income of the 99 is a little more than 49 600. The chicago metro area has the biggest income gap in the state. It s hard to buy a house when you re bringing home 47 less.

2016 mean income median income gap. Louisiana had the largest income gap by gender with women earning less than 70 of what men took home in 2017. 3 496 26 in montana the median household income only grew from 45 324 in 2011 to 48 380 in 2016. In the windy city and surrounding suburbs the 1 earn an average of 1 4 million every year compared to 54 239 for everyone else.

Connecticut ranked seventh and new jersey where the rich earned 7 5 times what the poor did was 14th. 17 021 five year increase in income gap. New york was the state with the greatest gap between. In the united states the income gap between the rich and everyone else has been growing markedly by every major statistical measure for more than 30 years.