Mississippi ain’t about that international travel.
Illinois is high because flights at Ohare cost so much.
I find it funny that Americans use kilo with money but then they don’t know what kilo means with other things.
It’s ironic that the places you’d most want to get the fuck out of spend the least on travel.
These all seem insanely low. The plane ticket and hotel would cost $1k by themselves, so how can any of these numbers be below that?
I’m guessing this is far more indicative of the percentage of the population born outside the country, and / or whose parents live outside the country, than anything else.
Florida has a lot of expat snowbirds, though slightly less this year than last, which in a shocking coincidence, happens at the same time real estate prices are tanking (in fairness, there are several other reasons, but, discretionary travelers using their discretion to steer clear is something the state does at its own hazard)
Why do people spend so much money getting away from blue states? /s
I would love to leave Illinois but family…. Any way, we spent 20k this year to Europe, with one more trip to go, so 25k or so.
Any correlation with direct trans Atlantic, trans Pacific and South American flights? If you live by the coast you are more likely to fly out of country (max 10 to 12 hour flight).
Single handedly bringing up my state’s expenditure
Ah, faithful Mississippi. Always last.
wile i expected a travel / medium income per capita; this is actually very interesting perspective. I read it as more populous, and especially “dense” states tend to have higher incomes and potentially disposable incomes. like we often talk about issues with medium income bc of price of living but obviously here we can still see a huge disparity in spending even where “low” cost of living states like MS have literally 10x less travel spending.
Granted that may be on glittery motor boats, ATVs, and cartons of malboros; but people in MS still travel to other states, down to the coast, up to Tennesse, over to Texas for work//fun, down to LA for real football.
I’m confused, is this how much people in that state spend on average for international travel? (In which case it is hard to really get anything out of this because you don’t know what percentage are actually travelling or not).
Or is this a map of how much international travellers have to spend per ? When they are there?
Seems like a list of places that have wealthy people living in them.
I wonder how much of the top spot is due to O’Hare having cheap international flights by virtue of its status as an air freight hub?
And yet we have shitty options for direct international travel in Denver. I am so envious of the east/west coast for this one reason. Get with the program airlines. (special shout out to Iceland Air for having gotten with the program years ago).
Texans don’t travel nearly as much because they have 5000sqft house to do everything in it.
The money CA sends to red states should get used to send them on international trips to understand how much better they are than the US
![[OC] Per Capita Foreign Travel Expenditures by US Residents](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/3h17k4msc7mf1-1920x1024.jpeg)
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This map shows annual foreign travel expenditure by US residents.
Data: [https://apps.bea.gov/regional/downloadzip.htm](https://apps.bea.gov/regional/downloadzip.htm)
Tools: R (packages: dplyr, ggplot2, sf, usmap, tools, ggfx, grid, scales)
Mississippi ain’t about that international travel.
Illinois is high because flights at Ohare cost so much.
I find it funny that Americans use kilo with money but then they don’t know what kilo means with other things.
It’s ironic that the places you’d most want to get the fuck out of spend the least on travel.
These all seem insanely low. The plane ticket and hotel would cost $1k by themselves, so how can any of these numbers be below that?
I’m guessing this is far more indicative of the percentage of the population born outside the country, and / or whose parents live outside the country, than anything else.
Florida has a lot of expat snowbirds, though slightly less this year than last, which in a shocking coincidence, happens at the same time real estate prices are tanking (in fairness, there are several other reasons, but, discretionary travelers using their discretion to steer clear is something the state does at its own hazard)
Why do people spend so much money getting away from blue states? /s
I would love to leave Illinois but family…. Any way, we spent 20k this year to Europe, with one more trip to go, so 25k or so.
Any correlation with direct trans Atlantic, trans Pacific and South American flights? If you live by the coast you are more likely to fly out of country (max 10 to 12 hour flight).
Single handedly bringing up my state’s expenditure
Ah, faithful Mississippi. Always last.
wile i expected a travel / medium income per capita; this is actually very interesting perspective. I read it as more populous, and especially “dense” states tend to have higher incomes and potentially disposable incomes. like we often talk about issues with medium income bc of price of living but obviously here we can still see a huge disparity in spending even where “low” cost of living states like MS have literally 10x less travel spending.
Granted that may be on glittery motor boats, ATVs, and cartons of malboros; but people in MS still travel to other states, down to the coast, up to Tennesse, over to Texas for work//fun, down to LA for real football.
I’m confused, is this how much people in that state spend on average for international travel? (In which case it is hard to really get anything out of this because you don’t know what percentage are actually travelling or not).
Or is this a map of how much international travellers have to spend per ? When they are there?
Seems like a list of places that have wealthy people living in them.
I wonder how much of the top spot is due to O’Hare having cheap international flights by virtue of its status as an air freight hub?
And yet we have shitty options for direct international travel in Denver. I am so envious of the east/west coast for this one reason. Get with the program airlines. (special shout out to Iceland Air for having gotten with the program years ago).
Texans don’t travel nearly as much because they have 5000sqft house to do everything in it.
The money CA sends to red states should get used to send them on international trips to understand how much better they are than the US
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