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Earned Income Tax Credit per person: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Earned Income Tax Credit per person ($, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Safety-net and veterans' benefits per person by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-11

Download full table CSV Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (Table SAINC35) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 224 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 202 $
RI 186 $
DE 205 $
CT 160 $
NJ 177 $
MD 187 $
MA 130 $
VT 137 $
NH 106 $

Lowest: 106 to 151 $
Group 2: 151 to 177 $
Group 3: 177 to 217 $
Group 4: 217 to 257 $
Highest: 257 to 431 $

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: BEA's state estimates for 2025 are preliminary and are revised each year.


1	Mississippi	431
2	Louisiana	392
3	Georgia	324
4	Alabama	315
5	Arkansas	302
6	Texas	300
7	Florida	279
8	New Mexico	275
9	South Carolina	268
10	Oklahoma	264
11	Tennessee	257
12	Kentucky	252
13	North Carolina	242
14	Nevada	238
15	West Virginia	227
16	Michigan	226
17	New York	225
17	Ohio	225
19	Missouri	224
20	Arizona	223
21	Indiana	217
22	Illinois	212
23	Delaware	205
24	District of Columbia	202
25	Pennsylvania	191
26	California	190
27	Virginia	189
28	Maryland	187
29	Rhode Island	186
30	Kansas	185
31	New Jersey	177
32	Nebraska	172
33	Hawaii	168
34	Iowa	167
35	Idaho	164
35	South Dakota	164
37	Montana	163
38	Connecticut	160
38	Wyoming	160
40	Wisconsin	155
41	Maine	151
42	Alaska	145
42	Oregon	145
44	Minnesota	144
45	North Dakota	143
46	Colorado	142
47	Vermont	137
48	Utah	134
49	Massachusetts	130
49	Washington	130
51	New Hampshire	106

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts, Table SAINC35: Personal current transfer receipts
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts, Table SAINC1: Personal income summary: personal income, population, per capita personal income. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by Earned Income Tax Credit per person ($, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Data, SAINC35 Personal current transfer receipts and SAINC1 Personal income, population, per capita personal income (annual, by state); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-earned-income-tax-credit-per-person/

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