Additional economic security variables, by state (2020–2021)
| Median Household Income | Poverty Rate | Median Hourly Wage | Uninsurance Rate | Black Share of Labor Force | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ | % | $ | % | % | |
| Abortion-restricted | |||||
| Alabama | $56,929 | 14.6% | $19.98 | 9.9% | 25.9% |
| Arizona | $70,821 | 11.2% | $20.75 | 10.7% | 5.1% |
| Arkansas | $50,784 | 15.1% | $19.23 | 9.2% | 14.6% |
| Florida | $59,734 | 12.5% | $20.00 | 12.1% | 16.8% |
| Georgia | $61,497 | 13.1% | $20.00 | 12.6% | 31.9% |
| Idaho | $76,918 | 8.5% | $19.23 | 8.8% | 0.8% |
| Indiana | $70,190 | 10.9% | $20.00 | 7.5% | 8.6% |
| Iowa | $72,429 | 9.5% | $20.00 | 4.8% | 3.4% |
| Kansas | $75,979 | 8.6% | $20.00 | 9.2% | 5.0% |
| Kentucky | $55,629 | 14.6% | $19.23 | 5.7% | 8.4% |
| Louisiana | $57,206 | 17.2% | $19.23 | 7.6% | 31.0% |
| Mississippi | $46,637 | 18.1% | $17.77 | 11.9% | 35.5% |
| Missouri | $63,594 | 10.8% | $20.00 | 9.4% | 10.9% |
| Nebraska | $78,109 | 8.4% | $20.00 | 7.1% | 5.1% |
| North Carolina | $62,891 | 12.8% | $19.60 | 10.4% | 21.4% |
| North Dakota | $68,882 | 9.1% | $20.75 | 7.9% | 2.6% |
| Ohio | $62,689 | 12.3% | $20.17 | 6.6% | 11.9% |
| Oklahoma | $60,096 | 13.8% | $18.46 | 13.8% | 7.5% |
| South Carolina | $62,542 | 14.1% | $19.23 | 10.8% | 25.0% |
| South Dakota | $73,893 | 10.2% | $20.00 | 9.5% | 2.1% |
| Tennessee | $62,166 | 12.2% | $19.23 | 10.1% | 16.1% |
| Texas | $67,404 | 12.9% | $20.00 | 18.0% | 12.8% |
| Utah | $87,649 | 7.5% | $20.00 | 9.0% | 1.5% |
| West Virginia | $46,836 | 15.0% | $19.00 | 6.1% | 3.9% |
| Wisconsin | $69,943 | 8.6% | $21.60 | 5.4% | 5.8% |
| Wyoming | $71,052 | 9.4% | $20.00 | 12.2% | 1.2% |
| Abortion-protected | |||||
| Alaska | $81,133 | 11.7% | $24.00 | 11.4% | 3.6% |
| California | $81,575 | 11.0% | $23.08 | 7.0% | 6.3% |
| Colorado | $84,954 | 8.9% | $24.00 | 8.0% | 3.6% |
| Connecticut | $80,958 | 9.2% | $24.79 | 5.2% | 12.5% |
| Delaware | $68,687 | 9.6% | $20.99 | 5.7% | 22.3% |
| Hawaii | $82,199 | 10.1% | $21.15 | 3.9% | 2.0% |
| Illinois | $79,253 | 9.3% | $23.00 | 7.4% | 12.5% |
| Maine | $71,139 | 9.2% | $20.17 | 5.7% | 1.7% |
| Maryland | $97,332 | 8.0% | $26.26 | 6.1% | 31.5% |
| Massachusetts | $86,566 | 7.9% | $26.42 | 2.5% | 8.8% |
| Michigan | $64,488 | 11.0% | $21.00 | 5.0% | 12.3% |
| Minnesota | $80,441 | 7.0% | $24.00 | 4.9% | 5.4% |
| Montana | $64,999 | 10.4% | $19.50 | 8.3% | 0.5% |
| Nevada | $64,340 | 12.1% | $19.22 | 11.4% | 9.7% |
| New Hampshire | $88,841 | 5.6% | $23.08 | 5.1% | 2.0% |
| New Jersey | $88,559 | 7.4% | $25.50 | 7.2% | 15.0% |
| New Mexico | $53,463 | 16.7% | $19.38 | 10.0% | 2.4% |
| New York | $72,920 | 12.3% | $23.08 | 5.2% | 15.8% |
| Oregon | $81,855 | 9.0% | $23.06 | 6.1% | 2.1% |
| Pennsylvania | $72,627 | 10.0% | $21.50 | 5.5% | 10.6% |
| Rhode Island | $74,982 | 9.0% | $23.08 | 4.3% | 7.3% |
| Vermont | $76,079 | 8.2% | $22.35 | 3.7% | 1.5% |
| Virginia | $80,268 | 8.8% | $24.00 | 6.8% | 18.9% |
| Washington | $87,648 | 7.6% | $24.81 | 6.4% | 4.3% |
| Washington, D.C. | $90,640 | 14.5% | $38.46 | 3.7% | NA |
Notes: All data for 2021 except Black share of labor force, which is from 2020.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, “Historical Income Tables: Households,” Table H-8, accessed October 2022; Table B-5 from Creamer et al., Poverty in the United States: 2021, U.S. Census Bureau, September 2022. Author analysis of 2021 Current Population Survey Outgoing rotation Group (CPS-ORG) data for all workers ages 16 and older; Figure 1 from Conway and Mykyta, “Decline in Share of People Without Health Insurance Driven by Increase in Public Coverage in 36 States,” U.S. Census Bureau, September 15, 2022; Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), “Four States and D.C. Had Labor Force That Was More Than 30 Percent African American in 2020,” The Economics Daily, February 19, 2021.
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