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Share of tax returns claiming the EITC: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Share of tax returns claiming the EITC (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Federal income tax returns by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 15 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 12.6 %
RI 12.2 %
DE 13.7 %
CT 11.1 %
NJ 12 %
MD 12.3 %
MA 9.6 %
VT 10.1 %
NH 7.9 %

Lowest: 7.9 to 11.2 %
Group 2: 11.2 to 12.2 %
Group 3: 12.2 to 14.3 %
Group 4: 14.3 to 17.7 %
Highest: 17.7 to 26.7 %

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.


1	Mississippi	26.7
2	Louisiana	24
3	Georgia	20.6
4	Arkansas	20.5
5	Alabama	20.3
6	Texas	19.4
7	Florida	19.1
8	Oklahoma	18.8
9	New Mexico	18.5
10	Kentucky	18
11	South Carolina	17.7
12	Tennessee	17
13	North Carolina	16.7
14	West Virginia	16.3
15	Nevada	15.8
16	Arizona	15.3
17	New York	15.1
18	Missouri	14.8
19	Indiana	14.7
20	Ohio	14.4
21	Michigan	14.3
22	California	13.8
23	Delaware	13.7
24	Illinois	13.5
25	Pennsylvania	13
26	Kansas	12.9
26	Virginia	12.9
28	District of Columbia	12.6
28	Idaho	12.6
30	Maryland	12.3
31	Rhode Island	12.2
32	Hawaii	12.1
32	Nebraska	12.1
34	Iowa	12
34	New Jersey	12
36	South Dakota	11.9
37	Montana	11.7
38	Alaska	11.3
38	Maine	11.3
38	Wyoming	11.3
41	Oregon	11.2
42	Connecticut	11.1
43	Utah	10.9
44	North Dakota	10.6
44	Wisconsin	10.6
46	Colorado	10.2
47	Vermont	10.1
48	Minnesota	10
49	Washington	9.8
50	Massachusetts	9.6
51	New Hampshire	7.9

Source: Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income, SOI Tax Stats, Historic Table 2: individual income and tax data by state, tax year 2023 (23in55cmcsv.csv). Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by share of tax returns claiming the EITC (%, derived) (2023). Data: Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income, SOI Tax Stats, Historic Table 2: individual income and tax data by state, tax year 2023 (23in55cmcsv.csv); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-tax-returns-claiming-the-eitc/

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