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Tax returns with taxable Social Security: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Share of tax returns with taxable Social Security (%, 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: 16 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 8.6 %
RI 16.8 %
DE 21.6 %
CT 17.7 %
NJ 16 %
MD 15.3 %
MA 15.9 %
VT 20 %
NH 20.2 %

Lowest: 8.6 to 15.3 %
Group 2: 15.3 to 16.8 %
Group 3: 16.8 to 17.7 %
Group 4: 17.7 to 19.3 %
Highest: 19.3 to 21.6 %

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	Delaware	21.6
2	New Hampshire	20.2
2	West Virginia	20.2
4	Vermont	20
5	Iowa	19.9
6	Maine	19.8
7	Wisconsin	19.7
7	Wyoming	19.7
9	South Dakota	19.5
10	Michigan	19.3
10	Montana	19.3
12	Pennsylvania	19
13	South Carolina	18.7
14	Hawaii	18.3
14	Kansas	18.3
16	Missouri	18.1
16	Oregon	18.1
18	Idaho	17.9
18	Minnesota	17.9
20	North Dakota	17.8
21	Connecticut	17.7
22	Alabama	17.5
23	Arizona	17.4
24	Florida	17.3
25	Arkansas	17.2
25	Indiana	17.2
25	Ohio	17.2
28	New Mexico	17.1
29	Nebraska	16.9
30	Kentucky	16.8
30	Rhode Island	16.8
30	Washington	16.8
33	North Carolina	16.7
34	Oklahoma	16.6
35	Virginia	16.5
36	Tennessee	16.4
37	Mississippi	16.2
38	New Jersey	16
39	Illinois	15.9
39	Massachusetts	15.9
41	Maryland	15.3
42	New York	15.2
43	Nevada	14.9
44	Louisiana	14.7
45	Alaska	14.3
46	Colorado	13.9
47	Georgia	13.8
48	California	13.4
49	Utah	12.7
50	Texas	12
51	District of Columbia	8.6

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 with taxable Social Security (%, 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-with-taxable-social-security/

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