Income and Poverty - Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Earned Income Tax Credit (2013) To resort data: click column headings. To download data: click here. Name Percent returns receiving EITC 2014 Rank Percent returns receiving EITC 2014 Total returns receiving EITC 2014 Total returns filed 2014 Sum of EITC received 2014 Average credit per EITC return 2014 Mississippi 1 34.0 388,182 1,142,891 1,095,248,059 2,821 Louisiana 2 28.6 515,450 1,805,273 1,416,218,403 2,748 Georgia 3 27.9 1,084,450 3,889,604 2,928,071,249 2,700 Alabama 4 27.4 512,660 1,873,230 1,403,171,318 2,737 Arkansas 5 26.9 300,208 1,117,405 767,759,499 2,557 New Mexico 6 25.9 212,820 822,599 513,127,884 2,411 South Carolina 7 25.5 491,325 1,926,649 1,232,559,485 2,509 Florida 8 25.1 2,087,144 8,307,756 5,131,942,386 2,459 Texas 9 24.7 2,610,188 10,553,907 6,957,579,004 2,666 Tennessee 10 24.3 653,534 2,687,386 1,631,808,857 2,497 North Carolina 11 23.4 924,937 3,949,860 2,281,311,301 2,466 Kentucky 12 23.0 406,043 1,767,035 955,171,246 2,352 Oklahoma 13 22.9 334,473 1,462,152 820,787,104 2,454 Arizona 14 22.3 561,608 2,516,772 1,423,631,203 2,535 Idaho 15 21.1 133,659 633,969 305,712,191 2,287 West Virginia 16 21.0 156,865 746,233 347,260,721 2,214 Nevada 17 20.7 241,452 1,166,541 574,628,406 2,380 New York 18 20.3 1,754,997 8,661,033 4,051,590,963 2,309 Missouri 19 20.2 515,835 2,550,488 1,227,794,076 2,380 California 20 20.2 3,056,951 15,166,197 7,266,476,824 2,377 Indiana 21 19.2 555,681 2,890,789 1,305,540,716 2,349 Michigan 22 18.7 817,212 4,363,272 1,954,329,690 2,391 Ohio 23 18.4 957,926 5,209,928 2,268,283,417 2,368 Hawaii 24 18.0 109,016 606,001 237,727,136 2,181 Delaware 25 18.0 73,007 405,936 168,778,073 2,312 Montana 26 18.0 79,390 441,615 166,947,690 2,103 Illinois 27 17.9 1,012,292 5,668,216 2,472,209,958 2,442 Utah 28 17.8 193,551 1,088,661 449,567,948 2,323 Kansas 29 17.4 212,915 1,225,730 492,336,104 2,312 Virginia 30 17.4 609,666 3,512,234 1,396,562,025 2,291 Rhode Island 31 17.3 83,384 482,982 188,747,974 2,264 Oregon 32 17.2 276,496 1,609,875 582,242,396 2,106 Maine 33 17.1 101,226 592,935 206,517,084 2,040 South Dakota 34 16.9 65,078 384,716 140,213,641 2,155 Nebraska 35 16.3 135,532 829,073 308,319,068 2,275 Pennsylvania 36 16.0 928,975 5,800,720 2,031,209,348 2,187 Colorado 37 15.9 353,965 2,228,385 772,113,464 2,181 Maryland 38 15.8 413,604 2,609,517 951,070,545 2,299 Iowa 39 15.4 210,529 1,365,949 459,900,134 2,184 Alaska 40 15.2 47,890 315,843 98,542,931 2,058 Washington 41 15.0 443,711 2,961,623 955,330,699 2,153 New Jersey 42 15.0 589,233 3,939,786 1,344,594,636 2,282 Vermont 43 14.9 44,825 300,475 85,036,808 1,897 Wyoming 44 14.9 38,230 256,476 78,450,732 2,052 Wisconsin 45 14.7 388,994 2,653,810 844,409,822 2,171 Minnesota 46 13.8 341,803 2,475,726 727,916,997 2,130 Connecticut 47 13.6 218,500 1,600,777 467,445,589 2,139 Massachusetts 48 13.2 402,635 3,048,459 826,000,064 2,051 North Dakota 49 12.4 42,206 339,036 86,765,608 2,056 New Hampshire 50 12.4 78,561 633,514 151,609,993 1,930 Source: 1997-2014: The Brookings Institution, EITC Interactive, (https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/earned-income-tax-credit-eitc-interactive-and-resources/); DATE LAST UPDATED: March 12, 2017.