# IncomeByCounty — U.S. County Income & Earnings Database

> IncomeByCounty provides income, wages, and employment data for every county in the United States, sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS). Data covers median household income, per capita income, poverty rates, and employment status for all 3,143 U.S. counties.

IncomeByCounty.com is part of the ByCounty Network, a platform combining government data across tax, cost of living, income, crime, health, schools, and environmental risk into county-level profiles. The flagship product is CountyScore.com, which aggregates all metrics into a single county score.

All data is free to access and sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates (2019-2023), released December 2024.

## Key Resources

- [Browse by State](https://incomebycounty.com): All 50 states with county-by-county income tables
- [Sitemap](https://incomebycounty.com/sitemap.xml): Complete index of all pages

## Data Coverage

- 3,143+ US counties across all 50 states and Washington D.C.
- Metrics per county: median household income, per capita income, income distribution, poverty rate, employment status
- Data vintage: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates (2019-2023)

## Data Attribution

All data sourced from: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Tables B19013 (Income), B19301 (Per Capita), B17001 (Poverty), B23025 (Employment).

## Further Reading

- [CountyScore Network Hub](https://countyscore.com): Composite county scores combining all data dimensions
- [ByCounty Network llms.txt index](https://countyscore.com/llms.txt): All network sites and data sources
- [TaxByCounty](https://taxbycounty.com): Property tax rates by county