Makeover Monday: U.S. Household Income Distribution by State

• The ordering of the states by the highest income level from smallest to largest is easy to see.
• The colors are all pretty distinct from each other (as I'm not color blind).
• The colors seem like an intentional choice to go from red (low) to green (high) with steps of color in between.
• The labels help add context to the stacked bars and they aren't distracting.
• Including the data source

What could be improved?

• There's no indication as to which year this represents.
• As it's not interactive, you can't sort by a different income level, therefore it's not easy to compare different states without reading the labels, which is slow.
• Are there region differences? I can't tell from this view.

• To be able to see regional trends, I included a tile map.
• I used bars that represent the change since 2009 so that we could see which income groups grew and shrank the most.
• I included context in the tooltips that show each income level for 2016 and the change since 2009 for the selected income level.
• I added some annotations to aid understanding (thanks Eva for the idea).