• Gap between rich and poor, by state in the U.S. 2019

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. New York was the state with the greatest gap between rich and poor with a Gini coefficient score of 0.51. Although not states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia had the highest Gini coefficients in the United States that year.

Gini coefficient as a measure for household income distribution inequality for U.S. states in 2019

Characteristic	Gini Coeffecient
Puerto Rico	0.55
New York	0.51
District of Columbia	0.51
Connecticut	0.5
Louisiana	0.5
Mississippi	0.49
California	0.49
United States	0.48
Florida	0.48
Massachusetts	0.48
Illinois	0.48
Georgia	0.48
New Jersey	0.48
New Mexico	0.48
Kentucky	0.48
Texas	0.48
Arkansas	0.48
Tennessee	0.47
South Carolina	0.47
Pennsylvania	0.47
North Carolina	0.47
Alabama	0.47
Oklahoma	0.47
Nevada	0.47
Virginia	0.47
Ohio	0.47
West Virginia	0.46
Michigan	0.46
Missouri	0.46
Rhode Island	0.46
Montana	0.46
Arizona	0.46
Indiana	0.46
Washington	0.46
Maryland	0.46
North Dakota	0.46
Colorado	0.45
Delaware	0.45
Kansas	0.45
Oregon	0.45
Maine	0.45
Vermont	0.45
Minnesota	0.44
Iowa	0.44
New Hampshire	0.44
Nebraska	0.44
Hawaii	0.44
Wisconsin	0.44
Alaska	0.44
South Dakota	0.44
Wyoming	0.43
Idaho	0.43
Utah	0.43

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September 2020

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United States

Survey time period

2019

Supplementary notes

The Gini coefficient is calculated by looking at average income rates. A score of zero would reflect perfect income equality and a score of 1 indicates a society where one person would have all the money and all other people have nothing.

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