Income and Poverty - Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Earned Income Tax Credit (2013) To resort data: click column headings. To download data: click here. County Name Percent returns receiving EITC 2014 Rank Percent returns receiving EITC 2014 Total returns receiving EITC 2014 Total returns filed 2014 Sum of EITC received 2014 Average credit per EITC return 2014 Canyon 1 27.8 20,338 73,097 51,950,351 2,554 Owyhee 2 26.8 986 3,674 2,520,947 2,557 Madison 3 26.0 2,810 10,806 6,451,260 2,296 Clark 4 25.7 77 300 174,391 2,265 Payette 5 25.4 2,251 8,850 5,359,006 2,381 Jerome 6 25.1 2,152 8,581 5,358,336 2,490 Minidoka 7 24.8 2,020 8,130 4,902,524 2,427 Cassia 8 24.2 2,077 8,581 5,036,046 2,425 Power 9 24.2 730 3,017 1,830,397 2,507 Twin Falls 10 24.2 7,788 32,213 18,343,081 2,355 Elmore 11 23.9 2,457 10,267 6,032,978 2,455 Lincoln 12 23.9 444 1,856 1,080,379 2,433 Bingham 13 23.9 4,019 16,825 9,757,248 2,428 Washington 14 23.6 873 3,703 2,007,898 2,300 Bannock 15 23.5 7,395 31,531 16,531,993 2,236 Fremont 16 23.3 1,134 4,862 2,911,650 2,568 Bonneville 17 23.0 9,604 41,845 23,379,198 2,434 Gem 18 22.9 1,485 6,474 3,553,466 2,393 Adams 19 22.9 348 1,522 712,633 2,048 Benewah 20 22.1 801 3,618 1,735,985 2,167 Gooding 21 22.1 1,253 5,668 2,894,315 2,310 Jefferson 22 21.8 1,959 8,990 4,736,061 2,418 Lewis 23 21.6 314 1,455 680,301 2,167 Boundary 24 21.4 918 4,281 2,066,361 2,251 Franklin 25 21.3 976 4,577 2,382,373 2,441 Camas 26 21.3 74 348 165,163 2,232 Shoshone 27 20.9 1,006 4,810 2,055,962 2,044 Bonner 28 20.7 3,478 16,774 7,623,965 2,192 Oneida 29 20.6 322 1,561 757,945 2,354 Butte 30 20.4 206 1,008 419,351 2,036 Lemhi 31 20.3 630 3,099 1,304,208 2,070 Idaho 32 20.1 1,188 5,909 2,509,532 2,112 Kootenai 33 19.5 12,071 61,792 26,256,239 2,175 Teton 34 19.3 739 3,830 1,615,262 2,186 Bear Lake 35 18.3 430 2,352 995,331 2,315 Clearwater 36 18.2 590 3,241 1,163,254 1,972 Nez Perce 37 17.8 3,043 17,104 6,310,234 2,074 Valley 38 17.5 735 4,199 1,458,967 1,985 Custer 39 17.3 278 1,604 495,673 1,783 Ada 40 17.0 29,255 172,326 61,497,741 2,102 Boise 41 16.1 470 2,925 1,001,360 2,131 Latah 42 15.2 2,192 14,445 4,159,064 1,897 Caribou 43 15.1 398 2,639 911,140 2,289 Blaine 44 14.5 1,345 9,282 2,622,620 1,950 Source: 1997-2014: The Brookings Institution, EITC Interactive, (https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/earned-income-tax-credit-eitc-interactive-and-resources/); DATE LAST UPDATED: March 12, 2017.