# More than a quarter of Mississippi tax returns claim the Earned Income Tax Credit

Published 2026-11-07 · By Pushbuild · Data: [IRS Income by ZIP Code API – Tax Return Statistics 2011-2023](https://pushbuild.com/apis/irs-income-by-zip.html)

**26.9% of Mississippi returns claimed the EITC in 2023, the highest share of any state; Louisiana was 24.2%, Georgia 20.8%.**

| State | Returns | EITC returns | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MS | 1,194,990 | 321,170 | 26.9% |
| LA | 1,877,470 | 454,440 | 24.2% |
| GA | 4,768,860 | 992,370 | 20.8% |
| AL | 2,095,500 | 426,610 | 20.4% |
| AR | 1,253,630 | 253,210 | 20.2% |
| TX | 13,311,320 | 2,600,260 | 19.5% |

## Caveats

Sum of ZIP-level IRS counts; ZIPs with few returns are suppressed by the IRS.

## Sources

- [IRS Statistics of Income, individual income tax ZIP code data](https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-income-tax-statistics-zip-code-data-soi), read through the Pushbuild [IRS Income by ZIP Code API](https://pushbuild.com/apis/irs-income-by-zip.html) on 2026-11-07

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Every number in this post comes from the [IRS Income by ZIP Code API – Tax Return Statistics 2011-2023](https://pushbuild.com/apis/irs-income-by-zip.html). $0.0008 per row returned; every key gets $1 of free usage each month.

```
curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/irs-income-by-zip/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"zips": ["10001", "94105"], "maxItems": 20}'
```

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As of 2026-11-07. Source: https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/eitc-share-by-state/