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Income 2005

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Three-Year-Average Median Household Income by State:  2003-2005
                                                                                 
(Income in 2005 dollars)
 
             
           3-year-average median1 (2003-2005)2
         
             
        Number of states3 with median income:
           
    90-percent Not Higher Lower
  Median confidence statistically than than
  income Standard interval4 (+) different state of state of
     State (dollars) error (dollars) from: interest interest
             
   
New Jersey 59,989 1,112 1,830 4 0 45
Maryland 58,347 1,071 1,762 5 0 44                                   
New Hampshire 58,223 1,113 1,832 6 0 43
Hawaii 57,572 1,040 1,710 6 0 43
Connecticut 57,369 1,166 1,918 6 0 43
Minnesota 56,084 846 1,392 6 2 41
Alaska 55,935 1,105 1,818 7 1 41
Massachusetts 54,617 1,075 1,768 4 5 40
Virginia 54,301 930 1,530 4 5 40
Utah 53,226 749 1,232 3 7 39
Colorado 52,011 987 1,623 4 9 36
California 51,647 479 788 3 10 36
Delaware 50,970 946 1,557 4 10 35
Washington 50,885 847 1,393 4 10 35
Rhode Island 48,823 1,155 1,899 7 12 30
Vermont 48,508 861 1,416 5 14 30
Nevada 48,314 1,101 1,811 5 14 30
Illinois 47,978 688 1,131 5 14 30
Wisconsin 47,004 851 1,400 11 14 24
Nebraska 46,613 980 1,612 13 14 22
New York 46,242 598 983 9 18 22
Pennsylvania 45,814 630 1,036 11 18 20
Michigan 45,793 653 1,074 11 18 20
Wyoming 45,598 878 1,444 13 18 18
Iowa 45,086 922 1,517 14 18 17
Idaho 44,994 883 1,453 14 18 17
Ohio 44,961 709 1,166 13 19 17
Arizona 44,748 918 1,510 13 19 17
Georgia 44,439 580 954 11 21 17
Missouri 44,324 712 1,171 11 21 17
Kansas 43,802 1,013 1,667 13 23 13
Indiana 43,735 776 1,277 11 23 15
Oregon 43,570 816 1,343 12 24 13
South Dakota 42,525 804 1,323 8 30 11
Florida 42,079 524 862 7 31 11
Maine 42,006 870 1,431 9 30 10
Texas 41,959 427 702 5 33 11
North Dakota 41,869 810 1,332 8 31 10
North Carolina 41,067 648 1,067 8 33 8
South Carolina 40,350 799 1,314 6 36 7
Tennessee 39,524 820 1,349 5 38 6
New Mexico 39,029 1,074 1,766 7 38 4
Oklahoma 38,895 815 1,341 5 39 5
Alabama 38,180 990 1,629 6 40 3
Kentucky 37,566 731 1,203 5 41 3
Louisiana 36,814 877 1,443 6 42 1
Montana 36,200 695 1,143 6 43 0
Arkansas 35,591 744 1,224 4 45 0
West Virginia 35,234 785 1,291 4 45 0
Mississippi 34,508 847 1,393 3 46 0
             
* Statistically different from zero at the 90-percent confidence level.
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/income/p60_231sa.pdf>.
Source:  U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2004 to 2006 Annual Social and Economic Supplements.
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division