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With self-employment income: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: With self-employment income. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Households by source of income, by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-30

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National value: 10.9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 11.3 %
RI 9.5 %
DE 7.9 %
CT 10.2 %
NJ 10.5 %
MD 10.9 %
MA 10.9 %
VT 16.2 %
NH 12.3 %

Lowest: 7.2 to 9.6 %
Group 2: 9.6 to 10.5 %
Group 3: 10.5 to 11.2 %
Group 4: 11.2 to 13 %
Highest: 13 to 16.2 %

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. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Vermont	16.2
2	Montana	15.7
3	South Dakota	14.3
4	Hawaii	14.2
5	Idaho	14.1
6	Colorado	13.3
6	Maine	13.3
8	Wyoming	13.2
9	Alaska	13.1
9	California	13.1
11	Utah	13
12	North Dakota	12.8
13	Nebraska	12.4
14	New Hampshire	12.3
15	Texas	12.2
16	Oregon	11.9
17	Iowa	11.7
18	Kansas	11.5
19	Tennessee	11.4
20	District of Columbia	11.3
21	Minnesota	11.2
22	Florida	11.1
23	Nevada	11
24	Maryland	10.9
24	Massachusetts	10.9
26	Arizona	10.7
26	Oklahoma	10.7
26	Washington	10.7
29	Arkansas	10.6
30	Missouri	10.5
30	New Jersey	10.5
32	Georgia	10.3
32	New York	10.3
32	South Carolina	10.3
35	Connecticut	10.2
35	Virginia	10.2
37	North Carolina	10.1
38	Louisiana	9.8
39	Michigan	9.7
39	Mississippi	9.7
41	Wisconsin	9.6
42	Rhode Island	9.5
43	Kentucky	9.4
44	Ohio	9.3
44	Pennsylvania	9.3
46	New Mexico	9.2
47	Illinois	9.1
48	Alabama	9
49	Indiana	8.6
50	Delaware	7.9
51	West Virginia	7.2

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1902: Mean Income in the Past 12 Months. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by with self-employment income (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1902; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-30. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-with-self-employment-income/

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