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Uninsured Rate by state

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

2024
20132024
Texas: 16.7%California: 5.9%Kentucky: 6.8%Georgia: 12.0%Wisconsin: 5.3%Oregon: 5.2%Missouri: 7.7%Virginia: 6.9%Tennessee: 9.7%Louisiana: 7.7%New York: 5.0%Idaho: 9.2%Florida: 10.9%Illinois: 6.9%Montana: 8.8%Minnesota: 5.1%Maryland: 6.3%Iowa: 5.4%District of Columbia: 4.5%Ohio: 6.7%Nebraska: 7.1%Washington: 6.5%South Dakota: 8.1%Oklahoma: 11.5%Wyoming: 10.3%West Virginia: 5.8%Indiana: 7.5%Massachusetts: 2.8%Nevada: 11.4%North Dakota: 6.1%Arkansas: 9.4%Mississippi: 9.7%Colorado: 7.9%North Carolina: 8.6%Utah: 8.3%Hawaii: 3.5%New Mexico: 10.1%Kansas: 8.5%Rhode Island: 4.6%Michigan: 5.1%Alaska: 11.0%Delaware: 6.9%Alabama: 8.2%South Carolina: 9.0%Maine: 5.5%New Jersey: 7.7%Pennsylvania: 5.8%New Hampshire: 4.5%Arizona: 10.3%Connecticut: 5.8%Vermont: 4.2%1767125587108591179565777812106831169108984109511896610
2.4%
96.7%

The color scale is fixed across all years, so a state changing shade as you move the slider is a real change in the value.

2024 · Highest: Texas 16.7% · Lowest: Massachusetts 2.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 1-year · S2701_C05_001E · table · 2013 to 2024

Reading it. ACS health-insurance coverage estimate. The 1-year series is available from 2013 onward.

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.