Average American: Income Distribution Explorer
What does household income look like where you live?
Use Census ACS 5-year estimates to inspect household-income bands across national, state, county, and city/place geographies before moving into tax burden or wealth questions.
Interactive source-data chart
Household income distribution
Select a geography and location to inspect Census ACS household-income bands. This is source data from ACS table B19001, not a tax-liability calculation.
Census ACS 2024 5-year estimates
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Household income in the past 12 months by income band.
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Data type: ACS estimates, not IRS tax filing records.
Next layer: Add IRS SOI and Tax Foundation tax burden data for tax questions.
Official source
Census American Community Survey
This tool calls the Census Data API from the server and keeps the API key out of browser code. The first dataset is ACS 2024 5-year table B19001: household income in the past 12 months. ACS values are survey estimates, not administrative tax records, and margins of error are not displayed yet.
Open the Census ACS 5-year API documentation