Treasury designates all 6,576 Opportunity Zone 2.0 tracts on its final list

The wait is over. On November 5, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS published the final Opportunity Zone 2.0 list — designating every one of the 6,576 census tracts that states, territories and the District of Columbia nominated as Qualified Opportunity Zones effective Jan. 1, 2027. Of those 6,576 tracts, 2,594 are rural. The designation runs ten years, through December 31, 2036, under IRS Notice 2026-40.

As of Nov. 5, 2026: 6,576 designated · 2,594 rural · effective Jan. 1, 2027 · 25,462 eligible (October workbook / Treasury QOZ data page) · October workbook · Treasury QOZ data

How the list was built. On April 6, 2026, Treasury and the IRS released a list of 25,332 eligible census tracts under IRS Rev. Proc. 2026-14, of which 8,334 were rural tracts eligible for increased benefits. Governors — and the Mayor of the District of Columbia — could nominate up to 25 percent of their eligible tracts under that same revenue procedure (or up to 25 tracts for a jurisdiction with fewer than 100 eligible). Nominations opened July 1, 2026. Treasury later added 130 eligible tracts (28 rural) beyond that April baseline — bringing the eligible pool to 25,462 (8,362 rural) in the October 30, 2026 eligibility workbook (also on the Treasury QOZ data page). By the close of that window, 6,576 eligible tracts had been nominated; Treasury sb0682 designated all of them.

That single release turns months of state filings, governor announcements and “nominated, awaiting Treasury” tracker rows into a finished federal map. For investors, fund sponsors, developers and local economic-development teams who have been lining up capital against provisional slates, this is the official list.

What Treasury locked in. Treasury’s November 5 release (sb0682) is unambiguous: all 6,576 nominated tracts are designated QOZs effective January 1, 2027. The CDFI Fund hosts the full spreadsheet of designated zones and a map in its Community Investment Mapping System. Opportunity Zones are a permanent part of the tax code, with a new round of designations every ten years. This is the first of those decennial rounds under the Working Families Tax Cuts renewal. Regional readouts: Midwest Opportunity Zones designated for 2027 · rural vs urban OZ 2.0.

Preparing for OZ 2.0. Designated zones start January 1, 2027. That is when new Qualified Opportunity Fund investments into OZ 2.0 tracts begin under the renewed rules, including the enhanced rural benefits Congress added when it made the program permanent — a 30 percent basis step-up after five years for Qualified Rural Opportunity Funds, versus 10 percent for standard funds (see our OZ tax benefits guide and fund directory). Current OZ 1.0 zones keep running through December 31, 2028 (Puerto Rico’s current federal map ends December 31, 2027). Gains invested through December 31, 2026 stay on OZ 1.0 rules. This is general information, not tax advice; talk with your own tax counsel before acting.

Where to work from today. Read Treasury’s release: sb0682. Pull the CDFI Fund list and map. Use our tools as we roll each jurisdiction from nomination status to designated: map · zones hub · tracker · OZ 2.0 final list · rural vs urban · Midwest designation story.

What we will not invent. Treasury’s press release gives the national totals — 6,576 designated tracts, 2,594 of them rural — and does not break the final list out by state in the release itself. State-by-state designated counts on Opportunity Zone Invest come from matching the CDFI Fund file to each jurisdiction, not from older nomination headlines. Until that match is done for a state, use the national figures and the CDFI list.

The bottom line. The federal map for Opportunity Zone 2.0 is published. Six thousand five hundred seventy-six communities now know their tracts are designated. The clock to January 1, 2027, is the preparation window — for diligence, fund formation, and getting capital ready for the next decade of zones.