With the Consumer Price Index for clothing increasing rapidly over the past few years, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on the States Where People Spend the Most & Least on Clothes to shed light on where Americans are having the most trouble affording apparel. Per the report, Marylanders spent the fourth lowest % of their income on clothing.
To determine where consumers spend the most and least relative to their earnings, WalletHub analyzed the average prices of a men’s dress shirt, a pair of boys’ jeans and a pair of women’s slacks in each of 50 states, then compared them to the median household income.
| Highest % of Income Spent | Lowest % of Income Spent | |
| 1. Kentucky | 41. Colorado | |
| 2. Louisiana | 42. California | |
| 3. Arkansas | 43. Washington | |
| 4. Kansas | 44. New Hampshire | |
| 5. Alabama | 45. New Jersey | |
| 6. Ohio | 46. Rhode Island | |
| 7. West Virginia | 47. Maryland | |
| 8. North Dakota | 48. Massachusetts | |
| 9. Mississippi | 49. Connecticut | |
| 10. Utah | 50. Nevada | |
According to the study, Marylanders spend 1.17% of the median monthly household income on clothes with only Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Nevada spending a lower amount. To view the full report and your state’s rank, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-where-people-spend-the-most-least-on-clothes/145022