US Counties With the Highest Children in Single-parent Households
2,826 US counties ranked by children in single-parent households, from highest to lowest. First are McCormick County, SC (0.779%), Wilcox County, AL (0.754%) and East Carroll Parish, LA (0.746%). The middle one of the 2,826 has 0.228%.
What this measures
The percentage of children who live in a household headed by one parent. Source: County Health Rankings.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 0.454% |
| 2 | Mississippi | 0.37% |
| 3 | Louisiana | 0.345% |
| 4 | Alabama | 0.306% |
| 5 | New Mexico | 0.305% |
| 6 | Georgia | 0.304% |
| 7 | South Carolina | 0.296% |
| 8 | Delaware | 0.295% |
| 9 | Arkansas | 0.278% |
| 10 | Florida | 0.274% |
| 11 | Nevada | 0.274% |
| 12 | Tennessee | 0.273% |
| 13 | North Carolina | 0.27% |
| 14 | New York | 0.263% |
| 15 | Ohio | 0.261% |
| 16 | Maryland | 0.257% |
| 17 | Rhode Island | 0.256% |
| 18 | Oklahoma | 0.255% |
| 19 | Kentucky | 0.255% |
| 20 | Texas | 0.254% |
| 21 | Arizona | 0.254% |
| 22 | Pennsylvania | 0.253% |
| 23 | Connecticut | 0.25% |
| 24 | Michigan | 0.25% |
| 25 | Illinois | 0.249% |
| 26 | West Virginia | 0.242% |
| 27 | Indiana | 0.238% |
| 28 | Virginia | 0.236% |
| 29 | Missouri | 0.235% |
| 30 | Massachusetts | 0.233% |
| 31 | California | 0.225% |
| 32 | Wisconsin | 0.223% |
| 33 | Hawaii | 0.219% |
| 34 | New Jersey | 0.214% |
| 35 | Alaska | 0.214% |
| 36 | Colorado | 0.214% |
| 37 | Kansas | 0.212% |
| 38 | Vermont | 0.211% |
| 39 | Oregon | 0.211% |
| 40 | South Dakota | 0.206% |
| 41 | Nebraska | 0.202% |
| 42 | Montana | 0.201% |
| 43 | Iowa | 0.201% |
| 44 | Minnesota | 0.194% |
| 45 | Washington | 0.192% |
| 46 | Maine | 0.188% |
| 47 | New Hampshire | 0.184% |
| 48 | Wyoming | 0.181% |
| 49 | North Dakota | 0.181% |
| 50 | Idaho | 0.17% |
| 51 | Utah | 0.146% |
More on children in single-parent households
- US Counties With the Lowest Children in Single-parent Households
- Children in single-parent households by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.