Iowa ranks 34th in per capita income survey

The best of times, the worst of times…Iowa shows up among rankings of the both nation’s richest and its poorest counties. The money’s pretty evenly distributed, for a state that ranks 34th overall in per-capita income. Of the 250 U.S. counties with the lowest per-capita income, only one of Iowa’s 99 counties makes the list…Decatur County, right on the Missouri border in a rural part of the state that’s had a couple of dry years. Three counties made the TOP 250 richest of the nation’s 3,110-counties. They’re some of the most metropolitan — Polk, Linn and Johnson Counties. The first two are Iowa’s most populous, but Johnson County is smaller than Scott or Black Hawk … but it contains Iowa City and the University of Iowa.