Created using data from the 2025 Forbes Billionaires List, and visualized using react-simple-maps and d3-geo open source projects.
PuzzleheadedRoyal480 on
2 of the 3 states with no billionaires would be in >90% of people’s top guesses. But nobody would say Delaware!
Wandering_butnotlost on
“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
G.C.
SB472 on
The Warren Buffet effect is crazy
Meanteenbirder on
When you realize like 75% of Texas’s is one dude
wreck0 on
Fascinating the Delaware is home to SO many corporations, but zero billionaires.
Dstein99 on
I went straight to Nebraska
HotNubsOfSteel on
Hoarded in their net worth like piles of gold in the mountain hold of a dragon. Only given out in small tokens to those that serve their own, selfish desires. Bound to no man or law.
ElJanitorFrank on
Was this before or after that insane tax bill California proposed that, by the nature of its wording within its proposal, incentivized billionaires to leave before it was even voted on? I think the back-date in the bill was for December and so a few billionaires (like Zuck) have already packed it up. If the data was collected before the end of the year then this map would probably look notably (but only slightly) different given the amount of weight that relatively few people have that it represents.
If the US government taxed 100% of the wealth on this screen, it could fund the federal budget for part of the year.
Ozymannoches on
Nice graph. (Commenting so I’m able to find again easily)
Rman99 on
Arkansas being so high in one of these is always weird to see. That Walmart money is serious
KevBurnsJr on
The label on the top end of the color scale is incorrect.
$1651.6T should read $1651.6B or $1.6516T.
The-Musical-Fruit on
The Waltons sure are pumping up Arkansas’s numbers.
Jetsgopro on
Arkansas, Washington, and Nevada shades appear off relative to their counts. Cool displays.
33TLWD on
Crazy that $50B+ (almost half) of the Massachusetts total belong to the three surviving children who own Fidelity Investments
Mnm0602 on
Scale should say $1651B not $1651T. Or should say $1.7T
ClaroStar on
It’s just an incredible human tragedy that so few people are allowed to sit on that much wealth in a country where hunger and homelessness is not uncommon.
just_start_doing_it on
This is so much wealth to be owned by like the size of a single highschool.
Ok_Actuary9229 on
Bezos might be counted in Florida instead of Washington.
hacksoncode on
Ah yes, another population map disguised as something more useful.
fallstand on
“Most of your billionaires, lets be honest, have one billion dollars.. They’re what I like to call, barely billionares”
antraxsuicide on
This kind of map is why the “if you raise taxes somewhat, they’ll all leave” argument falls flat. Rich people can already get much lower taxes if they move to bumfuck North Dakota.
Turns out they, like most Americans, are okay paying a premium to live in specific states
![[OC] Billionaires and their Cumulative Net Worth per U.S. State](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/aaefosko33mg1-1536x864.png "[OC] Billionaires and their Cumulative Net Worth per U.S. State")
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Created using data from the 2025 Forbes Billionaires List, and visualized using react-simple-maps and d3-geo open source projects.
2 of the 3 states with no billionaires would be in >90% of people’s top guesses. But nobody would say Delaware!
“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
G.C.
The Warren Buffet effect is crazy
When you realize like 75% of Texas’s is one dude
Fascinating the Delaware is home to SO many corporations, but zero billionaires.
I went straight to Nebraska
Hoarded in their net worth like piles of gold in the mountain hold of a dragon. Only given out in small tokens to those that serve their own, selfish desires. Bound to no man or law.
Was this before or after that insane tax bill California proposed that, by the nature of its wording within its proposal, incentivized billionaires to leave before it was even voted on? I think the back-date in the bill was for December and so a few billionaires (like Zuck) have already packed it up. If the data was collected before the end of the year then this map would probably look notably (but only slightly) different given the amount of weight that relatively few people have that it represents.
https://preview.redd.it/erg04l0e73mg1.jpeg?width=831&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fffe2c3a404d52756b1f5d23215f03dbedc8fb61
::Cue John Denver::
If the US government taxed 100% of the wealth on this screen, it could fund the federal budget for part of the year.
Nice graph. (Commenting so I’m able to find again easily)
Arkansas being so high in one of these is always weird to see. That Walmart money is serious
The label on the top end of the color scale is incorrect.
$1651.6T should read $1651.6B or $1.6516T.
The Waltons sure are pumping up Arkansas’s numbers.
Arkansas, Washington, and Nevada shades appear off relative to their counts. Cool displays.
Crazy that $50B+ (almost half) of the Massachusetts total belong to the three surviving children who own Fidelity Investments
Scale should say $1651B not $1651T. Or should say $1.7T
It’s just an incredible human tragedy that so few people are allowed to sit on that much wealth in a country where hunger and homelessness is not uncommon.
This is so much wealth to be owned by like the size of a single highschool.
Bezos might be counted in Florida instead of Washington.
Ah yes, another population map disguised as something more useful.
“Most of your billionaires, lets be honest, have one billion dollars.. They’re what I like to call, barely billionares”
This kind of map is why the “if you raise taxes somewhat, they’ll all leave” argument falls flat. Rich people can already get much lower taxes if they move to bumfuck North Dakota.
Turns out they, like most Americans, are okay paying a premium to live in specific states