- Forbes compiled a database of the richest idiosyncratic successful each authorities successful 2025.
- Alaska, Delaware, and West Virginia are the lone 3 states without billionaires.
- Four of the 7 richest Americans unrecorded successful California, with Mark Zuckerberg successful the apical spot.
The US is location to much billionaires than immoderate different country. While it mightiness beryllium tempting to deliberation they each congregate successful California, New York, Florida, oregon Texas, these ultra-rich members of nine tin besides beryllium recovered successful Hattiesburg, Mississippi, oregon Shelburne, Vermont — oregon dozens of different cities nationwide. In fact, determination are billionaires successful 47 states.
In May 2025, Forbes released a database of the wealthiest idiosyncratic successful each state. With fortunes crossed industries similar tech, retail, agriculture, and oil, these individuals person a combined nett worthy of $2 trillion, up a afloat $400 cardinal from past year.
Find retired who's the richest idiosyncratic that calls your authorities home, according to Forbes' report. The estimated nett worths beneath were close arsenic of April 2025.
ALABAMA: Jimmy Rane
Net worth: $1.5 billion
Age: 78
Source of wealth: As the laminitis and CEO of Great Southern Wood Preserving, Rane helped popularize the lumber concern by appearing successful commercials arsenic a cowboy known arsenic "the Yella Fella."
Residence: Abbeville
ALASKA: Jonathan Rubini and family, Leonard Hyde and family
Net worth: $400 million, each
Age: Rubini is 70; Hyde is 68.
Source of wealth: Rubini serves arsenic the CEO and president of commercialized real-estate developer JL Properties, portion Hyde serves arsenic its president. Each of them owns 50% of the business, which besides includes properties successful Florida and Utah, Forbes reported.
Residence: Anchorage
ARIZONA: Ernest Garcia II
Net worth: $17.3 billion
Age: 67
Source of wealth: Ernest Garcia II owns the utilized car retailer DriveTime Automotive, the fourth-largest utilized car retailer successful the US. He is besides the largest shareholder of Carvana, an online utilized car trader founded by his son, Ernest Garcia III, successful 2012.
Residence: Tempe
ARKANSAS: Rob Walton and family
Net worth: $113 billion
Age: 80
Source of wealth: Rob Walton and his siblings inherited their wealthiness from their father, Sam Walton, who opened the archetypal Walmart store successful 1962 and founded the discount warehouse Sam's Club successful 1983. Rob Walton, the eldest of the Walton siblings, is besides 1 of the main owners of the Denver Broncos.
Residence: Bentonville
CALIFORNIA: Mark Zuckerberg
Net worth: $189 billion
Age: 40
Source of wealth: As a pupil astatine Harvard, Zuckerberg cofounded a social network known arsenic "The Facebook" successful 2004. He went connected to go CEO of Meta, the genitor institution for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads.
Residence: Palo Alto
COLORADO: Philip Anschutz
Net worth: $16.9 billion
Age: 85
Source of wealth: Anschutz initially amassed his luck done the find of an lipid tract connected the Wyoming-Utah borderline successful 1979 and consequent investments successful railroad companies. He founded Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) successful 1994, which owns large sports teams and show venues specified arsenic the Crypto.com Arena. AEG is besides the genitor institution of the Coachella music festival.
Residence: Denver
CONNECTICUT: Steve Cohen
Net worth: $21.3 billion
Age: 68
Source of wealth: Cohen founded 2 hedge funds, SAC Capital and Point72. Until SAC Capital was unopen down aft pleading blameworthy to insider trading charges successful 2013, it was 1 of the astir palmy hedge funds successful the satellite (Cohen himself was never charged). Point72 presently manages implicit $35 billion, Forbes reported. He besides holds a 95% ownership involvement successful the New York Mets.
A amusive information astir Cohen: He loosely inspired Damien Lewis' "Billions" character, Bobby Axelrod.
Residence: Greenwich
DELAWARE: Elizabeth Snyder
Net worth: $800 million
Age: 77
Source of wealth: Snyder's parents founded WL Gore & Associates, a manufacturing institution that holds implicit 7,000 patents, successful 1958. Gore-Tex, a waterproof cloth utilized successful outdoor apparel and shoes, remains its astir profitable invention. Snyder owns astir 5.5% of the company, Forbes reported.
Residence: Wilmington
FLORIDA: Jeff Bezos
Net worth: $206 billion
Age: 61
Source of wealth: Bezos founded e-commerce titan Amazon successful 1994 and inactive owns astir 9% of the company. As of May 2025, helium was the third-richest idiosyncratic successful the US down Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. He's besides the third-richest idiosyncratic successful the world, conscionable up of Larry Ellison.
Residence: Miami
GEORGIA: Bubba Cathy, Dan Cathy, and Trudy Cathy White
Net worth: $10.7 billion
Age: 71 (Bubba), 72 (Dan), and 69 (Trudy)
Source of wealth: The Cathys are heirs to the Chick-fil-A household fortune. Founded by their father, S. Truett Cathy, successful the 1960s, the fried-chicken fast-food concatenation present has implicit 3,200 edifice locations worldwide. Dan Cathy's son, Andrew Cathy, took implicit arsenic CEO successful 2021. Dan Cathy's brother, Bubba Cathy, is inactive the enforcement vice president.
Residence: Atlanta (Bubba and Don), Hampton (Trudy)
HAWAII: Pierre Omidyar
Net worth: $10 billion
Age: 57
Source of wealth: Omidyar founded eBay successful 1995 and became a billionaire erstwhile the e-commerce institution went nationalist during the dot-com bubble successful 1998. eBay besides acquired PayPal successful 2002 for $1.5 billion.
Residence: Honolulu
IDAHO: Frank VanderSloot
Net worth: $3.2 billion
Age: 76
Source of wealth: VanderSloot is the laminitis and erstwhile main enforcement of Melaleuca, Inc., which sells nutritional and wellness products online. Forbes reported that the institution present has implicit 1 cardinal customers each month.
Residence: Idaho Falls
ILLINOIS: Lukas Walton
Net worth: $39 billion
Age: 38
Source of wealth: Lukas Walton is the billionaire heir to the Walmart luck and the grandson of Walmart laminitis Sam Walton. Lukas Walton inherited his immense wealthiness aft his father, John T. Walton, died successful a level clang successful 2005 astatine the property of 58.
He founded Builders Vision, an interaction investing group, successful 2021, and besides chairs the Walton Family Foundation's situation programme committee.
Residence: Chicago
INDIANA: Carl Cook
Net worth: $9.9 billion
Age: 62
Source of wealth: Cook has served arsenic CEO of Cook Group, a medical-device manufacturing institution founded by his parents, since his father's decease successful 2011. Forbes reported the institution made $2.4 cardinal successful gross successful 2024.
Residence: Bloomington
IOWA: Harry Stine
Net worth: $10.2 billion
Age: 83
Source of wealth: Stine is an cultivation pioneer and the laminitis and proprietor of Stine Seed, a maize and soybean effect institution based successful Adel, Iowa.
According to the company's website, Stine Seed and its affiliates ain astir 800 patents related to soybean and maize familial technology. Major licensing deals person helped it go 1 of the world's largest backstage effect companies.
Residence: Adel
KANSAS: Charles Koch and family
Net worth: $67.5 billion
Age: 89
Source of wealth: Koch amassed his billions from serving arsenic co-CEO of Koch, Inc., which produces astir $125 cardinal successful gross each year, Forbes reported.
Founded successful 1940 by his father, Fred Koch, Koch Industries — aboriginal shortened to Koch — is progressive successful assorted businesses, from lipid pipelines to insubstantial goods, and is the second-largest backstage institution successful the US.
Residence: Wichita
KENTUCKY: Tamara Gustavson
Net worth: $8.1 billion
Age: 63
Source of wealth: Gustavson made her billions arsenic the heiress to the Public Storage empire and arsenic a prize-winning equine breeder. Her father, B. Wayne Hughes, cofounded Public Storage, a self-storage institution that present owns and operates thousands of locations crossed the US and Europe, successful 1972.
Forbes reported that Gustavson owns astir 10% of the company.
Residence: Lexington
LOUISIANA: Todd Graves
Net worth: $17.2 billion
Age: 53
Source of wealth: Graves, the laminitis and CEO of the chicken-tender edifice concatenation Raising Cane's, opened his archetypal edifice successful 1996. The institution present has astir 900 restaurants successful the US and made $5.1 cardinal successful yearly income successful 2024, Forbes reported.
Residence: Baton Rouge
MAINE: Susan Alfond
Net worth: $3.7 billion
Age: 79
Source of wealth: Alfond's father, Harold Alfond, made a luck arsenic the laminitis of the Dexter Shoe Company, erstwhile 1 of the largest footwear manufacturers successful the US. Forbes reported that helium sold the institution to Warren Buffett successful 1993 for $420 cardinal successful Berkshire Hathaway stock.
Harold Alfond died successful 2007, leaving his luck to Susan Alfond and her 3 siblings.
Residence: Scarborough
MARYLAND: Annette Lerner and family
Net worth: $5.5 billion
Age: 95
Source of wealth: Lerner's luck grew aft she loaned $250 to her husband, Ted Lerner, to found a steadfast that sold homes to real-estate developers, Forbes reported.
Founded successful 1952, it grew to go 1 of the astir palmy real-estate companies successful the DC area. The Lerners besides made their wealth arsenic owners of the Washington Nationals shot team.
Residence: Chevy Chase
MASSACHUSETTS: Abigail Johnson
Net worth: $31.5 billion
Age: 63
Source of wealth: Johnson is the seat and CEO of Fidelity Investments — which her gramps founded — and holds an estimated 28.5% ownership successful the company. The Financial Times called her the "quiet queen of American finance" for the mode she grew her father's and grandfather's concern portion staying incredibly private.
Residence: Milton
MICHIGAN: Daniel Gilbert
Net worth: $23.7 billion
Age: 63
Source of wealth: Gilbert is the laminitis and president of Rocket Companies, formerly known arsenic Quicken Loans. From 2013 to 2018, nether Gilbert's leadership, the institution closed astir fractional a trillion successful location loans, according to the Gilbert Family Foundation. He besides owns the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers.
Residence: Franklin
MINNESOTA: Glen Taylor
Net worth: $2.9 billion
Age: 84
Source of wealth: Taylor purchased Carlson Letter Service, a wedding stationery concern that helium worked for portion attending college, successful 1975, according to the company's website. It became the Taylor Corporation, a people services and communications company. A erstwhile authorities senator, he's besides owned respective sports teams.
Residence: Mankato
MISSISSIPPI: Thomas and James Duff
Net worth: $3 billion
Age: 68 and 64
Source of wealth: The Duff brothers' wealthiness originates from their household business: tires. Their father, Ernest, founded Southern Tire Mart successful the '70s and sold it successful 1998. James and Thomas bought it backmost successful 2003 and past cofounded Duff Capital Investors, a holding company, successful 2007. Forbes reported it present brings successful $5 cardinal successful gross crossed implicit 20 businesses.
Residence: Hattiesburg
MISSOURI: David Steward
Net worth: $11.4 billion
Age: 73
Source of wealth: In 1990, David Steward cofounded IT supplier World Wide Technology, which Forbes valued astatine $20 cardinal successful sales. Citi, Verizon, and the national authorities are a fewer of the company's clients. An avid instrumentality of car racing, Steward has pushed for much diverseness successful NASCAR, according to his company bio. In 2018, WWT began sponsoring Bubba Wallace, 1 of the fewer Black drivers successful the racing organization's history.
Residence: St. Louis
MONTANA: Dennis Washington
Net worth: $7.4 billion
Age: 90
Source of wealth: Washington owns a concern radical called Washington Companies, which is progressive successful mining, obstruction and marine transportation, and construction. He's besides invested successful his lad Kyle's vessel business, Seaspan ULC.
Residence: Missoula
NEBRASKA: Warren Buffett
Net worth: $165 billion
Age: 94
Source of wealth: Buffett is 1 of the best-known and most palmy investors of each time. He's made his luck via Berkshire Hathaway, which owns brands specified arsenic Geico, Dairy Queen, and Duracell. Despite his immense wealth, he's besides known for his modest spending habits. Recently, helium announced he'll discontinue astatine the extremity of 2025.
Residence: Omaha
NEVADA: Miriam Adelson and family
Net worth: $28.6 billion
Age: 79
Source of wealth: Miriam Adelson is connected the database aft the 2021 decease of her husband, casino magnate and large Republican donor Sheldon Adelson. Now, she and her household ain implicit 50% of Las Vegas Sands, a casino institution worthy implicit $39 billion. In 2023, she became a bulk proprietor of the Dallas Mavericks, a rubric formerly held by Mark Cuban. She's besides been a large donor to Donald Trump.
Residence: Las Vegas
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Rick Cohen and family
Net worth: $11.5 billion
Age: 72
Source of wealth: Most of Cohen's familial wealthiness comes from Symbotic, a warehouse automation institution that has partnered with Walmart. Cohen is the president and CEO. In addition, Cohen besides owns the US' largest market wholesaler, C&S Wholesale Grocers, which brings successful $33 cardinal annually, Forbes reported. In 2024, his net worthy plunged by $9 cardinal owed to his family's involvement successful Symbotic, erstwhile the company's stocks tanked.
Residence: Keene
NEW JERSEY: John Overdeck
Net worth: $7.4 billion
Age: 55
Source of wealth: Two Sigma, a $60 cardinal hedge fund, which Overdeck cofounded, is the root of his wealth. He and David Siegel stepped down arsenic co-CEOs past year, amid a semipermanent quality implicit managing the firm. In precocious school, helium won a metallic medal successful the International Mathematics Olympiad, and present helium serves arsenic seat for the National Museum of Mathematics.
Residence: Millburn
NEW MEXICO: Ron Corio
Net worth: $1.7 billion
Age: 63
Source of wealth: Corio's billionaire presumption — the archetypal successful New Mexico — stems from Array Technologies, a star tracking systems business. He is the laminitis and erstwhile CEO, resigning successful 2020 earlier its IPO.
Residence: Albuquerque
NEW YORK: Michael Bloomberg
Net worth: $105 billion
Age: 83
Source of wealth: What hasn't Bloomberg done? Besides his 12-year stint arsenic the politician of New York City and an unsuccessful statesmanlike campaign, Bloomberg cofounded Bloomberg LP successful 1981. Bloomberg is simply a media institution and a fiscal steadfast with revenues of $13.3 billion, arsenic reported by Forbes.
Residence: New York
NORTH CAROLINA: James Goodnight
Net worth: $9.8 billion
Age: 82
Source of wealth: Goodnight and his workfellow John Sall (also a billionaire) cofounded a backstage school, Cary Academy, and besides co-own a edifice and state club. But their biggest concern task unneurotic is the software institution SAS, founded successful 1976. It made implicit $3 cardinal successful income successful 2024, according to the company's 2024 yearly report.
Residence: Cary
NORTH DAKOTA: Gary Tharaldson
Net worth: $1.2 billion
Age: 79
Source of wealth: Tharaldson, the lone billionaire successful North Dakota, got his commencement successful 1982 erstwhile Tharaldson Hospitality purchased a Super 8 Motel. It past became a immense hospitality radical and 1 of America's largest developers of caller hotels.
Residence: Fargo
OHIO: Les Wexner and family
Net worth: $7.8 billion
Age: 87
Source of wealth: Wexner opened The Limited successful Ohio successful the 1960s. He past founded a retail empire that, astatine 1 point, owned brands similar Abercrombie & Fitch, The Limited Too, Express, and Victoria's Secret. Now Wexner's institution has been renamed Bath & Body Works Inc., and solely owns the concatenation of the aforesaid name.
Residence: New Albany
OKLAHOMA: Harold Hamm and family
Net worth: $18.5 billion
Age: 79
Source of wealth: Hamm founded the Shelly Dean Oil Company, present known arsenic Continental Resources, successful 1967 erstwhile helium was lone 21. It's present 1 of the largest lipid companies successful the US, acknowledgment successful portion to Hamm's determination to usage horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing successful the Bakken portion of North Dakota successful the '90s. The institution went nationalist successful 2007, but successful 2022, Hamm and his 5 children took the institution backstage again successful a woody worthy $27 billion.
Residence: Oklahoma City
OREGON: Phil Knight and family
Net worth: $29 billion
Age: 87
Source of wealth: One word: Nike. Knight cofounded the iconic marque successful 1964 alongside Bill Bowerman. Although Knight retired successful 2016, helium and his household inactive ain 20% of the company, which, successful 2024, earned $51 cardinal successful fiscal revenue, per Forbes.
Residence: Hillsboro
PENNSYLVANIA: Jeff Yass
Net worth: $59 billion
Age: 66
Source of wealth: After spending clip arsenic a pro gambler and trader connected the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Yass cofounded Susquehanna International Group successful 1987. The palmy Wall Street trading steadfast has a 15% involvement successful ByteDance, TikTok's genitor company. NBC reported successful 2024 that Yass besides has a idiosyncratic stock (7%) of ByteDance.
Residence: Haverford
RHODE ISLAND: Jonathan Nelson
Net worth: $3.4 billion
Age: 68
Source of wealth: In 1989, Nelson founded and led the backstage equity steadfast Providence Equity Partners. He was CEO until January 2021 and is present its enforcement chairman. The steadfast has invested successful implicit 180 companies, including Hulu, Warner Media Group, and Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network (YES).
Residence: Providence
SOUTH CAROLINA: Robert Faith
Net worth: $5 billion
Age: 61
Source of wealth: Robert "Bob" Faith founded Greystar, a planetary existent property firm, successful 1993 and continues to service arsenic president and CEO. Throughout his career, Faith grew Greystar from 9,000 units successful the US to much than a cardinal units crossed 5 continents, worthy much than $315 billion, the institution reported successful a March press release. The institution besides has an concern absorption level with $36 cardinal successful assets nether development.
Residence: Charleston
SOUTH DAKOTA: T. Denny Sanford
Net worth: $2.1 billion
Age: 89
Source of wealth: The University of Minnesota alum made his luck arsenic the proprietor of First Premier Bank. Despite having conscionable 17 branches crossed South Dakota, the slope is 1 of the largest issuers of Mastercards, successful portion due to the fact that it specializes successful offering recognition cards to those with debased recognition scores. Often, the cards person debased limits and precocious involvement rates.
Residence: Sioux Falls
TENNESSEE: Thomas Frist Jr. and family
Net worth: $26.8 billion
Age: 86
Source of wealth: Frist Jr. cofounded Hospital Corp. of America with his begetter successful 1968. According to its website, the for-profit healthcare institution is liable for 186 hospitals and implicit 2,400 attraction sites (like urgent attraction centers, country clinics, and doc clinics) crossed the US and UK. He and his household ain implicit 20% of the company, and his sons, Thomas Frist III and William Frist, are committee members.
Residence: Nashville
TEXAS: Elon Musk
Net worth: $388 billion
Age: 53
Source of wealth: Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are successful a continuous conflict for the rubric of richest idiosyncratic successful the US. Musk is CEO of Tesla, CEO and laminitis of SpaceX, and the laminitis of neurotechnology startup Neuralink and tunneling institution The Boring Company. He besides helped recovered OpenAI, but helium near successful 2018 and announced his ain AI endeavor, xAI, successful 2023, which helium owns an estimated 54% of, according to Forbes. He besides owns an estimated 74% of societal media level X, formerly known arsenic Twitter.
Residence: Austin
UTAH: Gail Miller
Net worth: $4.4 billion
Age: 81
Source of wealth: Miller owns the Larry H. Miller Company, which she founded with her husband, Larry H. Miller, successful 1979 aft purchasing their archetypal Toyota dealership. The LHM Company's car dealership concern became the eighth-largest successful the US, and she sold it for $3.2 cardinal successful 2021, Forbes reported. (Larry H. Miller died successful 2009.) LHM's portfolio besides includes companies successful existent estate, entertainment, sports, and insurance, among others. In 2020, aft much than 30 years of owning the Utah Jazz, Miller sold the squad and their location arena for $1.66 billion.
Residence: Salt Lake City
VERMONT: John Abele
Net worth: $2 billion
Age: 88
Source of wealth: In 1979, Abele cofounded Boston Scientific, a aesculapian instrumentality manufacturer, alongside Peter Nicholas. Boston Scientific focuses connected processing much accessible aesculapian technologies, and its products see pacemakers, defibrillators, and stents.
Residence: Shelburne
VIRGINIA: Jacqueline Mars
Net worth: $39 billion
Age: 85
Source of wealth: As the granddaughter of Mars Incorporated laminitis Frank C. Mars, Jacqueline owns an estimated one-third of the legendary candy, food, and pet-care institution liable for treats similar Snickers, Juicy Fruit, and Milky Way. (Her member owns different 3rd and is the richest idiosyncratic successful Wyoming, per Forbes.) She served connected the committee of directors until 2016, having spent astir 20 years with the company.
Residence: The Plains
WASHINGTON: Steve Ballmer
Net worth: $118 billion
Age: 69
Source of wealth: Bill Gates hired Ballmer arsenic Microsoft's 30th worker successful 1980. Ballmer went connected to service arsenic the CEO of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. After retiring, helium bought the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 cardinal and donated millions to the University of Oregon.
Residence: Hunts Point
WEST VIRGINIA: Brad Smith
Net worth: $900 million
Age: 61
Source of wealth: During Smith's clip arsenic CEO and past enforcement president of the concern and concern bundle institution Intuit, the company's gross astir doubled, Forbes reported. The occurrence came aft Intuit revamped its desktop bundle into a integer cloud-based platform. Now the president of Marshall University, helium besides chairs Nordstrom's committee of directors and sits connected the boards of Amazon and JPMorgan Chase.
Residence: Huntington
WISCONSIN: Diane Hendricks
Net worth: $21.9 billion
Age: 78
Source of wealth: Hendricks earned her billionaire presumption arsenic the cofounder of ABC Supply, the largest roofing wholesaler successful the US, with her precocious hubby Ken Hendricks. Founded successful 1982, ABC Supply acquired the gathering materials distributors Bradco successful 2010 and L&W Supply successful 2016 with Hendricks astatine the helm.
Residence: Afton
WYOMING: John Mars
Net worth: $39 billion
Age: 89
Source of wealth: Mars — whose sister is Jacqueline Mars, Virginia's richest idiosyncratic — is different heir of the Mars family luck amassed from candy products specified arsenic Snickers, Mars Bars, and M&M's, arsenic good arsenic Pedigree favored nutrient and Uncle Ben's rice. He owns a 3rd of the $45 cardinal business.
Residence: Jackson