Estimates of the Number of Children in EITC Tax Units
Source: Brookings Institution analysis of IRS data1
|
State |
Total |
| Alabama | 751,879 |
| Alaska | 63,161 |
| Arizona | 812,046 |
| Arkansas | 423,805 |
| California | 4,029,625 |
| Colorado | 452,095 |
| Connecticut | 250,132 |
| Delaware | 94,194 |
| District of Columbia | 62,615 |
| Florida | 2,518,158 |
| Georgia | 1,512,509 |
| Hawaii | 138,734 |
| Idaho | 192,084 |
| Illinois | 1,357,052 |
| Indiana | 750,310 |
| Iowa | 283,147 |
| Kansas | 304,687 |
| Kentucky | 531,025 |
| Louisiana | 738,124 |
| Maine | 120,382 |
| Maryland | 505,583 |
| Massachusetts | 452,858 |
| Michigan | 1,105,523 |
| Minnesota | 431,701 |
| Mississippi | 583,398 |
| Missouri | 712,452 |
| Montana | 102,621 |
| Nebraska | 191,348 |
| Nevada | 315,210 |
| New Hampshire | 90,211 |
| New Jersey | 725,877 |
| New Mexico | 301,621 |
| New York | 2,066,321 |
| North Carolina | 1,219,945 |
| North Dakota | 55,956 |
| Ohio | 1,289,284 |
| Oklahoma | 497,951 |
| Oregon | 351,322 |
| Pennsylvania | 1,184,944 |
| Rhode Island | 99,236 |
| South Carolina | 661,436 |
| South Dakota | 91,626 |
| Tennessee | 897,649 |
| Texas | 3,818,767 |
| Utah | 305,448 |
| Vermont | 50,723 |
| Virginia | 761,830 |
| West Virginia | 199,494 |
| Wisconsin | 514,139 |
| Wyoming | 50,814 |
| Total | 35,620,721 |
1 *The IRS provided the actual number of returns from tax units with one or two children, and the number of returns from tax units with three or more children. Estimate of average number of children in tax units with 3 or more children comes from Brookings MetroTax model, and are based on 2010 American Community Survey data.