With Americans having donated over $471 billion in 2021, up 5.1% from the previous year, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on the Most Charitable States for 2022.
To determine where the most generous Americans are inspiring others to be more selfless, WalletHub compared the 50 states based on 19 key indicators of charitable behavior. The data set ranges from the volunteer rate to the share of income donated to the share of sheltered homeless.
Most Charitable States in America
Overall Rank* | State | Total Score | Volunteering & Service | Charitable Giving |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Utah | 71.09 | 2 | 5 |
2 | Maryland | 67.84 | 5 | 7 |
3 | Minnesota | 67.72 | 3 | 9 |
4 | Oregon | 65.80 | 1 | 30 |
5 | North Dakota | 64.45 | 4 | 21 |
6 | Pennsylvania | 62.86 | 12 | 13 |
7 | Virginia | 62.73 | 28 | 3 |
8 | Colorado | 62.58 | 20 | 4 |
9 | Ohio | 62.51 | 11 | 16 |
10 | Georgia | 62.01 | 34 | 2 |
11 | Alaska | 61.62 | 7 | 29 |
12 | Wyoming | 61.39 | 14 | 18 |
13 | Washington | 61.38 | 17 | 15 |
14 | Arkansas | 60.96 | 21 | 10 |
15 | Maine | 60.82 | 6 | 35 |
16 | New Hampshire | 60.51 | 10 | 28 |
17 | New York | 59.67 | 45 | 1 |
18 | North Carolina | 58.92 | 23 | 14 |
19 | Massachusetts | 58.02 | 41 | 6 |
20 | Wisconsin | 57.96 | 19 | 24 |
21 | Idaho | 57.89 | 8 | 45 |
22 | South Dakota | 57.73 | 15 | 38 |
23 | Illinois | 57.69 | 37 | 12 |
24 | Delaware | 57.30 | 9 | 47 |
25 | Florida | 57.07 | 40 | 11 |
26 | Connecticut | 56.77 | 30 | 17 |
27 | Montana | 56.63 | 18 | 34 |
28 | Nebraska | 56.59 | 13 | 46 |
29 | Missouri | 56.47 | 32 | 20 |
30 | New Jersey | 55.93 | 33 | 18 |
31 | Indiana | 55.82 | 16 | 44 |
32 | Oklahoma | 55.80 | 22 | 33 |
33 | Kentucky | 55.16 | 24 | 37 |
34 | Texas | 55.06 | 25 | 36 |
35 | Vermont | 54.96 | 26 | 32 |
36 | Kansas | 54.71 | 39 | 22 |
37 | Tennessee | 54.01 | 36 | 27 |
38 | South Carolina | 53.97 | 38 | 26 |
39 | California | 53.33 | 50 | 8 |
40 | Michigan | 53.04 | 42 | 25 |
41 | Hawaii | 52.28 | 29 | 41 |
42 | Iowa | 51.37 | 31 | 42 |
43 | Alabama | 51.36 | 46 | 23 |
44 | Nevada | 51.31 | 35 | 40 |
45 | West Virginia | 50.56 | 27 | 48 |
46 | Rhode Island | 50.36 | 44 | 31 |
47 | Louisiana | 47.88 | 48 | 39 |
48 | Mississippi | 45.78 | 49 | 43 |
49 | Arizona | 45.11 | 43 | 50 |
50 | New Mexico | 44.02 | 47 | 49 |
*No. 1 = Most Charitable
With the exception of “Total Score,” all of the columns in the table above depict the relative rank of that state, where a rank of 1 represents the best conditions for that metric category.
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