South Carolina Ranked Among 2023’s Least Federally Dependent States in America

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Sharon Anderson
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With the tax filing deadline drawing near but some states receiving far more in federal aid than they pay in taxes, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released updated rankings for 2023’s Most & Least Federally Dependent States.

This report illustrates the extent to which states are independent economically. In order to identify which states most and least depend on federal support, WalletHub compared the 50 states across three key metrics: return on taxes paid to the federal government; federal funding as a share of state revenue; and share of federal jobs.

South Carolina came in as the 7th least federally dependent state in America and North Carolina was ranked as the 37th.

Most Federally Dependent States

Rank  State Total Score  State Residents’ Dependency  State Government’s Dependency 
1 Alaska 83.18 3 2
2 West Virginia 76.02 1 9
3 Mississippi 71.31 7 5
4 Kentucky 70.95 5 10
5 New Mexico 69.73 2 17
6 Wyoming 64.23 24 1
7 South Carolina 59.86 6 27
8 Arizona 58.86 13 6
9 Montana 57.77 14 7
10 Louisiana 57.46 22 3
11 North Dakota 55.91 4 35
12 Indiana 55.34 9 19
13 Maine 54.25 11 12
14 Alabama 53.48 10 16
15 South Dakota 52.22 29 4
16 Vermont 50.13 19 11
17 Missouri 44.13 28 8
18 Oklahoma 41.60 15 31
19 Pennsylvania 41.10 20 22
20 Idaho 40.57 23 15
21 Rhode Island 39.65 31 13
22 Tennessee 37.94 26 18
23 New Hampshire 37.39 41 14
24 Maryland 36.36 16 36
25 Michigan 34.67 27 24
26 Hawaii 33.25 8 50
27 Oregon 33.23 25 30
28 Arkansas 33.18 40 20
29 Texas 32.71 39 21
30 Minnesota 32.29 17 42
31 Connecticut 30.45 18 44
32 Virginia 30.38 12 46
33 Georgia 30.30 35 28
34 Florida 30.20 30 32
35 Ohio 29.12 46 23
36 Nebraska 29.05 42 26
37 North Carolina 28.43 37 33
38 Wisconsin 27.89 21 40
39 New York 27.27 44 29
40 Colorado 25.18 36 34
41 Nevada 23.45 38 37
42 Delaware 22.23 50 25
43 Iowa 19.28 32 43
44 Massachusetts 17.32 48 38
45 California 17.27 45 41
46 Illinois 17.05 47 39
47 Kansas 15.70 34 47
48 Utah 14.96 33 48
49 Washington 14.63 43 45
50 New Jersey 8.41 49 49

Notes: *No. 1 = Most Dependent
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 most dependent for that metric category.

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