List of highest-income counties in the United States
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There are 3,144 counties and county-equivalents in the United States. The source of the data is the U.S. Census Bureau and the data is current as of the indicated year. Independent cities are considered county-equivalent by the Census Bureau.
Summary
As of 2020, Loudoun County, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. in Virginia has a median household income of $147,111, the highest of any county in the nation.[1]
Median household income
2025 census estimates
The chart below depicts the 100 highest income counties in the United States by median household income according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey data between 2016 and 2020, in constant 2020 dollars.[2][3] Virginia has the most counties in the top 100 with 18 followed by California with 11; Maryland with 10; New Jersey with nine; Texas with seven, New York and Illinois with six each; Colorado and Massachusetts with four each; Georgia, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania with three each; Indiana, Ohio, Utah, and Washington with two each; and Alaska, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., Kansas, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Tennessee with one each.
Per capita income
2021 census estimates
The following table of the 100 highest income counties in the United States by per capita income is from the American Community Survey data for 2017-2021, in constant 2021 dollars.[4][5]
Highest-income counties and places by state
For more detailed lists of rankings of counties and places in the individual states, see the following pages:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming