Opportunity Zones by Location

List of Opportunity Zones by State

There are 8,764 opportunity zones in the United States. Here is the breakdown by state. U.S. overseas territories and Washington DC are also included.

Location	Designated Opportunity Zones	Low-Income Tracts	Non-LIC Contiguous Tracts
Alabama	158	153	5
Alaska	25	25	0
American Samoa	16	16	0
Arizona	168	160	8
Arkansas	85	83	2
California	879	871	8
Colorado	126	119	7
Connecticut	72	71	1
Delaware	25	24	1
Florida	427	427	0
Georgia	260	260	0
Guam	25	23	2
Hawaii	25	23	2
Idaho	28	26	2
Illinois	327	327	0
Indiana	156	153	3
Iowa	62	61	1
Kansas	74	70	4
Kentucky	144	139	5
Louisiana	150	145	5
Maine	32	30	2
Maryland	149	145	4
Massachusetts	138	137	1
Michigan	288	283	5
Minnesota	128	127	1
Mississippi	100	95	5
Missouri	161	153	8
Montana	25	25	0
Nebraska	44	43	1
Nevada	61	60	1
New Hampshire	27	27	0
New Jersey	169	169	0
New Mexico	63	59	4
New York	514	497	17
North Carolina	252	241	11
North Dakota	25	25	0
Northern Mariana Islands	20	20	0
Ohio	320	317	3
Oklahoma	117	114	3
Oregon	86	81	5
Pennsylvania	300	289	11
Puerto Rico	863	837	26
Rhode Island	25	25	0
South Carolina	135	128	7
South Dakota	25	23	2
Tennessee	176	170	6
Texas	628	628	0
Utah	46	46	0
Vermont	25	23	2
Virgin Islands	14	13	1
Virginia	212	207	5
Washington	139	132	7
Washington DC	25	25	0
West Virginia	55	52	3
Wisconsin	120	120	0
Wyoming	25	24	1

Map of Opportunity Zones

Opportunity Zones Map created by OpportunityZones.com

Opportunity Zones Analysis

Number of Opportunity Zones

States and U.S. overseas possessions were able to designate up to 25 percent of eligible census tracts as opportunity zones. Therefore, the number of opportunity zones in each state is highly correlated with the total population of the state. This explains why California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Illinois are among the states with the most opportunity zones, together accounting for nearly one-third of the total.

Puerto Rico is the outlier; their count of 863 opportunity zones is second only to California’s 879. Because of the extensive hurricane damage from 2017, Puerto Rico was granted special status that allowed them to nominate all of their low-income census tracts as opportunity zones. As such, nearly every tract on the island is an opportunity zone.

States and overseas possessions with fewer than 100 eligible census tracts were able to nominate up to 25 opportunity zones. Alaska, Delaware, Guam, Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington DC, and Wyoming all took advantage of this rule, explaining why each of these locations has exactly 25 opportunity zones. Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Virgin Islands have fewer than 25 eligible tracts.

Median Household Income

Because only low-income census tracts and certain tracts contiguous with low-income tracts were eligible for opportunity zone nomination, the median household income of all of a state’s opportunity zones is always lower than the statewide average. Certain states have higher levels of income disparity between opportunity zones and their statewide average than others.

In places like Connecticut, Washington DC, and Illinois, the median household income in opportunity zones is 50 percent or less than the statewide average. Conversely, in places like New Mexico, Mississippi, and West Virginia, there is a much lower level of income disparity; median household income in the opportunity zones of these states is greater than 75 percent of the statewide average.

Rural vs. Urban

Some states are more rural than others. The slope of the lines in the chart below illustrate how some states focused on nominating opportunity zones from rural or urban areas of the state. While most states nominated a slightly higher percentage of rural opportunity zones vs. their statewide averages, there are some outliers.

States like Idaho, New Hampshire, Colorado, and Georgia focused on nominating rural areas as opportunity zones (large positive slope on the chart below). Other states like North Dakota, Indiana, Ohio, and Connecticut focused on nominating urban areas as opportunity zones (negative slope on the chart below).