What does “the middle class” actually mean, and does your income qualify where you live? The answer depends heavily on your state.
For a recent study, GOBankingRates used the Pew Research Center’s definition of middle class: income ranging from two-thirds to twice a state’s median household income. GOBankingRates then added data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey to produce a state-by-state breakdown of where the boundaries lie.
The data shows that the income required to be considered middle class varies dramatically across the country — sometimes by tens of thousands of dollars.
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