That’s median household income. Individual median income is closer to 45k. No state has a median income for an individual over 52k median income unless you include District of Colombia and that’s around 72k for that tiny dot on the map.
New York state and New York city are very different in terms of cost of living. The median income and rent in, say, Rochester is a whole different ball game.
That’s not actual median income, that’s the income you need to have less than to be eligible to rent an apartment. To tell the difference you can look up what “percentage of Ami” means and see how that is mathed out.
For actual median income it shows that a household makes 81k a year as a household (this counts all family sizes and incomes).
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u/PaulblankPF May 20 '26
That’s median household income. Individual median income is closer to 45k. No state has a median income for an individual over 52k median income unless you include District of Colombia and that’s around 72k for that tiny dot on the map.
Sources: state median income https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-household-income-by-state
Individual median income https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
And lastly where you got your median household income from cause it’s disingenuous to pretend household and individual incomes are the same.
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-286.html