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Income 2006

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Three-Year-Average Median Household Income by State:  2004-2006
(Income in 2006 dollars)
             
                      3-year-average median1 (2004-2006)2
             
             
     States                 Median income (dollars)     Number of states3 with median income:
        Not Higher Lower
      90-percent statistically than than
    Standard confidence different state of state of
  Estimate error interval4 (+) from: interest interest
             
             
             
New Jersey 64,169 1,362 2,240 1 0 48
Maryland 62,372 1,145 1,883 4 0 45
Hawaii 60,681 1,067 1,755 3 1 45
New Hampshire 60,489 1,193 1,962 3 1 45
Connecticut 59,972 1,301 2,141 4 1 44
Alaska 57,639 1,182 1,945 4 4 41
Minnesota 57,363 854 1,405 2 5 42
Massachusetts 56,236 1,319 2,170 5 5 39
Utah 55,179 948 1,559 6 6 37
Virginia 55,108 933 1,535 5 7 37
Colorado 54,039 1,052 1,731 7 7 35
California 53,770 431 709 6 8 35
Washington 53,439 804 1,322 7 8 34
Delaware 52,214 1,003 1,650 6 10 33
Rhode Island 52,003 1,254 2,063 6 10 33
Vermont 51,622 928 1,526 4 12 33
Nevada 50,819 1,058 1,740 5 13 31
Illinois 49,280 717 1,180 6 16 27
Wisconsin 48,874 883 1,453 8 16 25
New York 48,201 625 1,029 10 17 22
Nebraska 48,126 1,029 1,692 10 17 22
Pennsylvania 47,791 636 1,047 10 17 22
Iowa 47,489 1,043 1,715 13 17 19
Wyoming 47,227 1,008 1,659 12 18 19
Michigan 47,064 659 1,084 12 18 19
Georgia 46,841 648 1,066 11 19 19
Arizona 46,729 884 1,454 13 19 17
Idaho 46,395 950 1,563 15 19 15
Ohio 45,837 660 1,086 12 22 15
Oregon 45,485 931 1,532 13 22 14
Maine 45,040 1,072 1,763 14 22 13
Indiana 44,806 836 1,375 10 26 13
Missouri 44,651 826 1,359 9 27 13
South Dakota 44,624 972 1,598 10 26 13
Florida 44,448 507 834 7 29 13
Kansas 44,264 961 1,581 10 27 12
Texas 43,425 428 704 7 30 12
North Dakota 42,162 929 1,528 7 35 7
North Carolina 42,061 631 1,037 4 37 8
New Mexico 40,827 1,113 1,831 5 37 7
South Carolina 40,822 861 1,416 5 37 7
Tennessee 40,676 744 1,223 5 37 7
Oklahoma 40,001 1,008 1,659 8 38 3
Montana 38,629 643 1,057 6 42 1
Alabama 38,473 860 1,414 6 42 1
Kentucky 38,466 759 1,248 6 42 1
Louisiana 37,943 953 1,567 6 42 1
Arkansas 37,420 765 1,259 5 43 1
West Virginia 37,227 830 1,365 6 43 0
Mississippi 35,261 963 1,585 1 48 0
             
1The 3-year-average median is the sum of three inflation-adjusted single-year medians divided by 3.
2The 2004 data have been revised to reflect a correction to the weights in the 2005 ASEC.
3Excludes the District of Columbia.
4A 90-percent confidence interval is a measure of an estimate's variability.  The larger the confidence
interval in relation to the size of the estimate, the less reliable the estimate.  For more information see "Standard
errors and their use" at: www.census.gov/hhes/www/p60_233sa.pdf
Source:  U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2005 to 2007 Annual Social and Economic Supplements.
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division