Talk:List of U.S. states and territories by income

Update yearly

With the advancement of yearly statistics from the Census Bureau, I advise a yearly update of this data. If there are no objections, I will update this page this week. shadeyoj — Preceding undated comment added 05:45, 21 March 2006

Difference between personal per capita income and per capita income

What's the difference between per capita income and personal per capita income, can someone please enlighten me? 65.110.30.103 23:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I posted the same question at WP:RD/H, and no one could answer there, either. Here's the full question:

The article States of the United States of America by income has separate lists for "States ranked by personal per capita income" and "States ranked by per capita income". But personal per capita income redirects to per capita income, and that article doesn't mention the term. What's the difference?

I assume that it's the same, and the difference is just the year. There are better tables out there, such as http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104652.html. Seeing that the States ranked by personal per capita income section isn't even reference, it seems the best for now to delete that section and refer to a good list instead. If someone wants to recreate the list from a reliable source, that would be the best solution. — Sebastian 18:27, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Made up information?

The per capita incomes are much lower than the numbers given in the state per capita income articles (at least for California and Georgia, although all of them seem low). Furthermore, the average (the national per capita income, is in the forty thousands, according to these sites: http://www.finfacts.ie/biz10/globalworldincomepercapita.htm and http://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/united_states/united_states_economy.html (which references the CIA world factbook). -- Mitth'raw'nuruodo. — Preceding undated comment added 08:44, 2 June 2007

- Maybe those sources quote average worker income rather than per capita income(averaged over the whole population, including children, retiried, unemployed, house-keeping spouse). 203.129.142.1 15:07, 12 July 2007 (UTC)GraL

Per capita income is not in $40k range - what you cited above is GDP per capita, which has little to do with how much income there is per person. GDP per capita is the amount of formal economic activity that takes place per person, not how much money people have to spent on themselves. But just to confuse people, the term national per capita income can is used, even though it has nothing to do with how much people make.

Per capita income, as refered to in this article, is the amount of income per person, including children, retirees. It is not to be confused with household or personal income. According to 2007 Census Bureau data:

• The average American worker, age 25+, makes $33,000/yr
• The average American household makes $48,000/yr
• The amount of income the average household has per member (household per capita income) is $25,000/yr

Per capita income is not a person's salary nor is it a person's household income. It either expresses how much money a household can, on average, allocate to its members or how much money there is in a community per person (per capita). In order to determine your household's per capita income you would take your total gross annual household income and divided by the number of people in your household.

Example: If you make $100k/yr and have 4 people in your household, your per capita household income is $25k/yr (100/4=25).

Regards, Signature^brendel 18:34, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Source?

Where is this data coming from? Someone needs to provide a source other than just "2000 Census." If you go to the 2000 Census page on income, http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFPeople?_submenuId=people_7&_sse=on, there is no option for "per capita" income, only household and family income. Please provide a source for the information stated on this page. Poldy Bloom 20:31, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

I have added a source for the per capita income in 1999: http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=D&-ds_name=D&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_GCTP14_US9&-format=CO-1 However, more sources are needed for this article, as is more context on what these data mean. Poldy Bloom 20:43, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Data Is Incorrect!!!

The household income for North Carolina is completely out of line with any other source I've seen, including the sources referenced just above the table. For more reasonable statistics, see the following Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States#Income_by_state — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.103.252.206 (talk) 05:17, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I'd also move that the 'politics' section is, by nature, incorrect. States change political affiliation over time. Some 'blue' states have a republican majority in the state legislature, or a republican governor, and the reverse is true of the 'red' states. Further, a state's political leaning HAS NO RELEVANCE on this page. It is a page about the relative income of U.S. States. Including the supposed political affiliation of the states hints at some kind of ulterior motive, probably to make a political point, and undermines the very nature of what Wikipedia is all about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eper1709 (talk • contribs) 00:09, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

I agree about removing the politics section. Whether or not it is correct, it is certainly irrelevant.Mpgviolist (talk) 02:26, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Did median household income in California really drop by a third between 2000 and 2014? I find that hard to believe. Are the dollars nominal or inflation-adjusted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Felipe.pait (talk • contribs) 04:01, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

States ranked by number of places with per capita incomes above national average

Forgive me but... What does this mean? There are no references or sources. If nobody can explain what this means then shouldn't someone delete it??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.223.174 (talk) 01:08, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

A mess

This page is a complete mess. It should be deleted if no one can clean it up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.74.60.174 (talk) 00:26, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Historical data

Is it possible to make the historical data easy to access on this page too? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.83.5.128 (talk) 03:49, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

How old is per-capita income information?

The household income table has nice dates (2011, 2009, 2008, etc.) but the per capita income table has no date to let us know how old it is. That's rather atrocious. 174.24.25.153 (talk) 19:14, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Map shading

Does the shading within each state on the map mean anything? If not, I may try and remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.251.121.90 (talk) 19:41, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Sources?

What is the source of the 2014 and 2000 median household data? I've checked all the links and can't find it. The justice.gov link is dead, and I can no longer find it (the Wayback Machine doesn't have it). Whatever the source, I strongly doubt New Hampshire's median household income in 2000 was in the high seven-figures. AdamBradley (talk) 18:32, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Updating myself: The Justice link seems to be this: http://www.justice.gov/ust/eo/bapcpa/20140401/bci_data/median_income_table.htm. I've corrected it in the page, but I don't see where this data is actually used in the page. AdamBradley (talk) 18:39, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Vandalism

Some people have been vandalizing the statistics here, I tried to fix what I could, but I'm not sure if I got everything. Could someone check the numbers to see if the are accurate now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scott J MacDonald (talk • contribs) 15:43, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

I'd assume the California statistics still aren't correct. The 2014 and 2010 figures aren't at all in line with the historical progression in other states. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.218.4.2 (talk) 08:14, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Apparently another case of vandalism? Article redirected to "Alaska", obviously for no good reason. The following text was found in comments, and removed:

This is a list of U.S. states by income. Alaska is the best. --Lensman03 (talk) 00:01, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Someone from Alaska just deleted the Alaskan data, inserted an income of one million for all years, and then redirected the entire article forcibly to Alaska's wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.2.169.72 (talk) 10:10, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

I attempted to fix it by searching for the data. That was silly--I should have restored the values that were removed. But doing that would change the order of states. I defer to someone better at tables and statistics than I. Here's what it was 3 days ago. YoPienso (talk) 21:47, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

@Yopienso: I went and got fresh data for 2011-2015 and replaced the table. Mojoworker (talk) 22:02, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Nice job, thanks! YoPienso (talk) 02:35, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 December 2017

Colby.thompson (talk) 06:05, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Sakura Cartelet^Talk 06:34, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

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Map colliding with table

Anyone else seeing the U.S. map clipping into the table, partially obscuring the 2011 data? I would change it but I don't have enough edits on the site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Humsorgan (talk • contribs) 00:49, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

United States as row

Hey whats up, its Ren writing in from Socal. I lke your table showing the states with all the data. Super useful for preesntations and the like. i was wondering if someone knows why they included the United States as a row included in the table? The United States is actually the country, not a state. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:f3c0:25e0:34de:ad7d:2c25:265a (talk) 07:26, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

A little late here -but that shows you what the average is in the US and how the states compare to that. Jonathan f1 (talk) 00:15, 26 August 2024 (UTC)