This is a list of median household income in the United States ranked by ethnicity and Native American tribal grouping (as of 2021) according to the United States Census. "Mixed race" and multi-ethnic categories are not listed.
The United States Census has race and ethnicity as defined by the Office of Management and Budget in 1997. [1] The following median household income data are retrieved from American Community Survey 2021 1-year estimates. In this survey, the nationwide population was 331,893,745 in 2021. [2] The median household income in 2021 across the general population (all races and ethnicities included) was $69,717. [2]
Race and Ethnicity | Alone | Alone or in Combination with Other Races | ||||
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Code | Population | Median household income (US$) | Code | Population | Median household income (US$) | |
Asian Americans | 012 | 19,157,288 | 100,573 | 031 | 23,545,238 | 97,626 |
White | 002 | 202,981,791 | 74,932 | 003 | 241,836,150 | 73,594 |
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander | 050 | 612,448 | 69,973 | 060 | 1,541,118 | 72,131 |
United States (general population) | 001 | 331,893,745 | 69,717 | |||
Non-White Hispanic | 070 | 23,902,781 | 57,671 | 071 | 53,868,002 | 61,042 |
American Indian and Alaska Native | 006 | 3,158,694 | 53,148 | 009 | 8,750,904 | 56,990 |
African Americans (Black American) | 004 | 40,194,304 | 48,297 | 005 | 47,234,227 | 47,597 |
In the 2022 American Community Survey, the following figures regarding detailed Asian ethnicities are reported. [3]
Detailed Race | Alone | Alone or in Combination with Other Races | ||||
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Code | Population | Median household income (US$) | Code | Population | Median household income (US$) | |
Indian | 013 | 4,534,339 | 152,341 | 032 | 4,946,306 | 147,728 |
Taiwanese | 018 | 263,772 | 122,951 | 037 | 310,503 | 117,652 |
Filipino | 019 | 2,969,978 | 109,090 | 038 | 4,466,918 | 104,695 |
Pakistani | 026 | 560,494 | 106,281 | 045 | 625,570 | 105,311 |
Chinese | 017 | 4,258,198 | 100,434 | 036 | 5,493,250 | 101,534 |
Sri Lankan | 027 | 75,808 | 96,641 | 046 | 86,690 | 94,034 |
Nepalese | 076 | 247,639 | 92,262 | 084 | 260,323 | 92,779 |
Korean | 023 | 1,501,587 | 91,261 | 042 | 2,051,572 | 91,860 |
Hmong | 020 | 335,612 | 88,572 | 039 | 362,244 | 87,651 |
Japanese | 022 | 717,413 | 87,789 | 041 | 1,587,040 | 97,690 |
Indonesian | 021 | 84,074 | 86,994 | 040 | 155,173 | 87,552 |
Cambodian | 015 | 280,862 | 86,653 | 034 | 376,096 | 89,407 |
Thai | 028 | 197,158 | 85,889 | 047 | 328,176 | 88,770 |
Vietnamese | 029 | 1,887,550 | 84,572 | 048 | 2,301,868 | 86,025 |
Bangladeshi | 014 | 256,681 | 80,288 | 033 | 272,338 | 80,196 |
Laotian | 024 | 173,524 | 78,551 | 043 | 245,220 | 79,260 |
Burmese | 073 | 225,591 | 69,281 | 081 | 244,086 | 70,830 |
In the 2019 American Community Survey, the following figures regarding detailed Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander races are reported. [4]
Detailed Race | Alone | Alone or in Combination with Other Races | ||||
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Code | Population | Median household income (US$) | Code | Population | Median household income (US$) | |
Guamanian or Chamorro | 056 | 78,323 | 72,722 | 066 | 160,773 | 70,792 |
Samoan | 053 | 112,845 | 67,573 | 063 | 204,640 | 66,558 |
Polynesian | 051 | 373,945 | 65,968 | 061 | 865,155 | 69,331 |
Micronesian | 055 | 173,592 | 62,659 | 065 | 267 | 64,379 |
Native Hawaiian | 052 | 198,734 | 62,272 | 062 | 607,010 | 69,642 |
In the 2014 American Community Survey, the following figures regarding 12 prominent American Indian and Alaska Native tribes are reported. [5]
Rank | Group | Income (US$) |
---|---|---|
1 | Chickasaw | 49,963 |
2 | Choctaw | 47,783 |
3 | Alaska Natives | 47,402 |
4 | Creek | 41,897 |
5 | Iroquois | 40,471 |
6 | Cherokee | 37,730 |
7 | Blackfeet | 37,033 |
8 | Chippewa | 34,463 |
9 | Lumbee | 33,863 |
10 | Navajo | 31,057 |
11 | Sioux | 29,079 |
12 | Apache | 28,745 |
In the 2021 American Community Survey, the following figures regarding detailed Hispanic and Latino ethnicities are reported. [3]
Detailed Race | Alone | Alone or in Combination with Other Races | ||||
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Code | Population | Median household income (US$) | Code | Population | Median household income (US$) | |
Argentine | 286,346 | 93,798 | ||||
Bolivian | 116,646 | 87,192 | ||||
Chilean | 172,062 | 84,719 | ||||
Uruguayan | 60,013 | 82,003 | ||||
Costa Rican | 154,784 | 81,088 | ||||
Peruvian | 720,626 | 77,024 | ||||
Nicaraguan | 429,501 | 73,790 | ||||
Colombian | 2,601,720 | 73,556 | ||||
Brazilian | 1,905,000 | 73,285 | ||||
Ecuadorian | 870,965 | 72,163 | ||||
Panamanian | 206,219 | 69,864 | ||||
Venezuelan | 814,080 | 69,830 | ||||
Paraguayan | 25,022 | 69,470 | ||||
Salvadoran | 2,473,947 | 69,319 | ||||
Mexican | 37,414,772 | 66,481 | ||||
Cuban | 2,435,573 | 66,241 | ||||
Haitian | 1,084,055 | 66,069 | ||||
Guatemalan | 1,524,743 | 61,103 | ||||
Puerto Rican | 5,905,178 | 59,268 | ||||
Dominican | 2,393,718 | 56,758 | ||||
Honduran | 1,083,540 | 55,380 | ||||
The list below provides median household incomes by ethnicity but does not include all ethnic groups as tracked by the United States Census.
Rank | Ancestry | Income (US$) |
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1 | Indian | 152,141 |
2 | Filipino | 101,157 |
3 | Iranian | 96,056 |
4 | South African | 94,159 |
5 | Lebanese | 92,697 |
6 | European | 91,857 |
7 | Macedonian | 91,852 |
8 | Russian | 90,296 |
9 | Austrian | 89,459 |
10 | Croatian | 88,325 |
11 | Turkish | 87,648 |
12 | Lithuanian | 87,433 |
13 | Greek | 87,428 |
14 | British | 87,288 |
15 | Swiss | 85,543 |
16 | Albanian | 85,092 |
17 | Serbian | 84,607 |
18 | Danish | 84,520 |
19 | Scandinavian | 84,518 |
20 | Bulgarian | 84,437 |
21 | Italian | 84,416 |
22 | Slovene | 84,261 |
23 | Czech | 83,823 |
24 | Armenian | 83,756 |
25 | Slovak | 83,755 |
26 | Ukrainian | 83,723 |
27 | Guyanese | 83,412 |
28 | Scottish | 83,342 |
29 | Portuguese | 82,925 |
30 | Polish | 82,846 |
31 | Swedish | 82,731 |
32 | Syrian | 82,532 |
33 | Belgian | 82,469 |
34 | Israeli | 82,436 |
35 | Romanian | 81,768 |
36 | Canadian | 81,576 |
37 | English | 81,200 |
38 | Norwegian | 81,168 |
39 | Hungarian | 80,684 |
40 | Finnish | 79,215 |
41 | German | 78,960 |
42 | Irish | 78,949 |
43 | Yugoslav | 78,560 |
44 | Welsh | 78,025 |
45 | Scotch-Irish | 77,802 |
46 | French Canadian | 76,292 |
47 | French | 75,783 |
48 | Palestinian | 75,521 |
49 | Czechoslovakian | 75,453 |
50 | Egyptian | 74,848 |
51 | Dutch | 74,717 |
52 | Arab [lower-alpha 1] | 72,943 |
53 | Nigerian | 72,577 |
54 | Ghanaian | 72,089 |
55 | Barbadian | 72,053 |
56 | Trinidadian and Tobagonian | 71,920 |
57 | Brazilian | 70,904 |
58 | Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac | 70,692 |
59 | Cajun | 66,476 |
60 | Jamaican | 65,789 |
61 | Jordanian | 65,607 |
62 | Belizean | 63,785 |
63 | West Indian [lower-alpha 2] | 63,597 |
64 | Pennsylvania Dutch | 62,436 |
65 | Moroccan | 61,773 |
66 | Haitian | 60,169 |
67 | American | 59,995 |
68 | Subsaharan African [lower-alpha 3] | 58,881 |
69 | Ethiopian | 58,507 |
70 | Iraqi | 57,067 |
71 | Afghan | 52,197 |
72 | Appalachian | 49,747 |
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