U.S. States Ranked by GDP per Capita

How does economic output compare after accounting for population? This table orders all 50 states by current dollars per resident, using 2025 observations.

Economic output per resident in 2025

New York ranks first at 123,273. The last-ranked state is Mississippi, at 55,117. Equal displayed values share competition rank; alphabetical order within a tie does not establish a lead. These figures use the same period and definition.

GDP per capita divides workplace-based output by resident population. It is not average income, a paycheck, or a direct measure of worker productivity. The median of the 50 state observations is 81,493; this unweighted state median is not the national rate or total. Annual estimates remain revisable; source publication dates appear in the methodology below.

Complete ranking and historical periods

50 states · 2025 · Current dollars per resident. Highest values first; ties share a rank.

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U.S. States Ranked by GDP per Capita · 2025 · Current dollars per resident
Rank	State	Value	Rank one year earlier
1	New York	123,273	1
2	Delaware	115,043	4
3	Massachusetts	113,724	2
4	Washington	111,518	3
5	California	109,196	5
6	Connecticut	103,727	7
7	North Dakota	103,020	6
8	Nebraska	102,386	8
9	Alaska	99,875	9
10	Illinois	97,568	10
11	Colorado	95,610	11
12	New Jersey	92,980	13
13	Texas	92,474	12
14	Virginia	90,981	16
15	New Hampshire	90,634	17
16	Maryland	90,501	15
17	Utah	90,191	18
18	Wyoming	89,157	14
19	Minnesota	88,350	19
20	South Dakota	87,694	20
21	Hawaii	85,959	23
22	Nevada	85,728	21
23	Iowa	83,973	22
24	Georgia	82,819	24
25	Ohio	82,087	25
26	Pennsylvania	80,898	28
27	Oregon	80,317	29
28	Wisconsin	80,160	26
29	Tennessee	80,137	30
30	North Carolina	80,007	27
31	Rhode Island	79,174	34
32	Kansas	77,961	31
33	Indiana	77,790	32
34	Arizona	77,665	33
35	Vermont	77,029	36
36	Florida	76,958	35
37	Missouri	75,811	37
38	Louisiana	74,125	38
39	Michigan	72,462	39
40	Maine	71,898	41
41	New Mexico	71,569	40
42	Montana	70,713	42
43	Kentucky	68,065	45
44	South Carolina	67,929	43
45	Idaho	67,695	44
46	Oklahoma	66,523	46
47	Alabama	65,286	47
48	West Virginia	63,020	49
49	Arkansas	62,922	48
50	Mississippi	55,117	50

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District of Columbia: 278,205 current dollars per resident, shown separately and excluded from ranks.

Changing the period updates the table and export. The introductory analysis above concerns 2025. All historical choices use the same acquired revised history.

What changed in the ranking?

New York occupies position 1 in 2025 and occupied position 1 in 2024 within this acquired history. Compare the underlying levels before interpreting movement: other states’ changes can alter a rank even when a state’s own value barely changes. A change in rank is not itself a growth rate, and it cannot establish a policy cause.

One denominator changes the comparison

Dividing GDP by population reduces the influence of state size. A small state with high-value production can rank above a larger state that produces more total output. The measure is useful when total GDP mostly reflects population scale, but it does not explain how the output or resulting income is distributed.

This table uses the same annual observation for both numerator and denominator. GDP comes from SAGDP1 and the resident population comes from SAINC1 in the acquired BEA regional package. Annual 2025 GDP is not divided by a current-day population estimate or a projection.

Why commuters and capital matter

GDP records production inside a state, while population counts residents. Commuters can produce output in one state and live in another. The mismatch can be especially consequential in compact jurisdictions or places with large cross-border labor markets. District of Columbia is excluded from state ranks and shown separately.

GDP also reflects the use of capital and the activity of industries with different output per worker. A high result does not establish that a typical resident earns that amount. Personal income per capita is a distinct resident-based account, and median household income would be another distinct distributional statistic.

Current-dollar output does not adjust local living costs

The numerator is nominal GDP, so the ratio remains in current dollars. Regional price parities describe consumer price levels; they are not automatically a deflator for every industry’s output. This site does not apply the consumer basket to nominal state GDP and call the result official real GDP.

For a comparison over time, use the state’s published real GDP history. For an illustration of purchasing power across places, use the dedicated regional price comparison tool with a matched annual price-parity observation. Keep those interpretations separate in reports and citations.

Sources, formula and ranking methodology

Measure: BEA SAGDP1 line 3 / SAINC1 line 2. Method: Current-dollar state GDP in millions × 1,000,000 ÷ same-year BEA population. Website calculation, rounded to whole dollars. The display and rank use 0 decimal places. Equal values receive competition rank; missing values are omitted from the ranked universe and reported in the table status. Filtering preserves national ranks.

Source file publication: September 30, 2026. Site acquisition: September 30, 2026. The annual GDP/income files contain 2025 observations; the price-parity file contains 2024 observations; labor series contain August 2026. These dates must not be relabeled as one current-month dashboard. Revised estimates in this acquisition are distinct from a historical release-vintage archive.

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