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Population by state

People. Every state colored on one scale across all years, joined to the map by FIPS code.

2024
20052024
Texas: 31.29MCalifornia: 39.43MKentucky: 4.59MGeorgia: 11.18MWisconsin: 5.96MOregon: 4.27MMissouri: 6.25MVirginia: 8.81MTennessee: 7.23MLouisiana: 4.60MNew York: 19.87MIdaho: 2.00MFlorida: 23.37MIllinois: 12.71MMontana: 1.14MMinnesota: 5.79MMaryland: 6.26MIowa: 3.24MDistrict of Columbia: 0.70MOhio: 11.88MNebraska: 2.01MWashington: 7.96MSouth Dakota: 0.92MOklahoma: 4.10MWyoming: 0.59MWest Virginia: 1.77MIndiana: 6.92MMassachusetts: 7.14MNevada: 3.27MNorth Dakota: 0.80MArkansas: 3.09MMississippi: 2.94MColorado: 5.96MNorth Carolina: 11.05MUtah: 3.50MHawaii: 1.45MNew Mexico: 2.13MKansas: 2.97MRhode Island: 1.11MMichigan: 10.14MAlaska: 0.74MDelaware: 1.05MAlabama: 5.16MSouth Carolina: 5.48MMaine: 1.41MNew Jersey: 9.50MPennsylvania: 13.08MNew Hampshire: 1.41MArizona: 7.58MConnecticut: 3.68MVermont: 0.65M31M39M4.6M11M6.0M4.3M6.2M8.8M7.2M4.6M20M2.0M23M13M1.1M5.8M6.3M3.2M12M2.0M8.0M0.9M4.1M0.6M1.8M6.9M7.1M3.3M0.8M3.1M2.9M6.0M11M3.5M1.4M2.1M3.0M10M0.7M5.2M5.5M1.4M13M7.6M
0.50M
39.56M

Shaded on a log scale, so each step up in color is roughly a multiple more, not a fixed amount. The scale is fixed across all years.

2024 · Highest: California 39.43M · Lowest: Wyoming 0.59M

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 1-year · B01003_001E · table · 2005 to 2024

Reading it. ACS 1-year estimate of total residents. Carries a margin of error; there is no 1-year estimate for 2020.

Comparing states is harder than it looks. A dollar buys more in some states than others, and survey estimates carry a margin of error. Read the map for the pattern, not for a precise ranking.