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With retirement income: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: With retirement income. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Households by source of income, by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-30

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National value: 25.2 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 17.4 %
RI 25.9 %
DE 34.7 %
CT 27 %
NJ 25.6 %
MD 27.2 %
MA 24.5 %
VT 28.7 %
NH 28.5 %

Lowest: 17.4 to 23.1 %
Group 2: 23.1 to 25.6 %
Group 3: 25.6 to 26.2 %
Group 4: 26.2 to 28.4 %
Highest: 28.4 to 34.7 %

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. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Delaware	34.7
2	Hawaii	33
3	West Virginia	29.8
4	Maine	28.7
4	South Carolina	28.7
4	Vermont	28.7
7	Michigan	28.6
8	New Hampshire	28.5
8	Virginia	28.5
8	Wyoming	28.5
11	Pennsylvania	28.4
12	Wisconsin	28.2
13	New Mexico	27.6
14	Arizona	27.3
15	Maryland	27.2
16	Connecticut	27
17	Kentucky	26.9
17	Missouri	26.9
17	Ohio	26.9
20	Alabama	26.3
21	Alaska	26.2
21	Idaho	26.2
21	Oregon	26.2
24	Iowa	26.1
25	Indiana	26
25	Minnesota	26
27	Florida	25.9
27	Rhode Island	25.9
29	Nevada	25.6
29	New Jersey	25.6
29	North Carolina	25.6
32	Montana	25.4
33	Kansas	25.3
33	New York	25.3
35	Illinois	25
36	Arkansas	24.6
36	Washington	24.6
38	Massachusetts	24.5
39	Tennessee	24.4
40	Mississippi	24.1
41	Oklahoma	23.1
41	South Dakota	23.1
43	California	23
43	Colorado	23
43	Georgia	23
46	Louisiana	22.7
47	Nebraska	22.6
48	Utah	20.5
49	North Dakota	20.3
50	Texas	20.2
51	District of Columbia	17.4

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1902: Mean Income in the Past 12 Months. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by with retirement income (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1902; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-30. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-with-retirement-income/

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