US States With the Highest Diabetes

45 US states ranked by diabetes, from highest to lowest. First are Mississippi (20), West Virginia (19.5) and Louisiana (18.4). The middle one of the 45 has 13.5.

What this measures

Adults who have ever been told they have diabetes, not counting diabetes that only appeared during pregnancy. Source: .

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.

Every state

Rank	State	% of adults
1	Mississippi	20
2	West Virginia	19.5
3	Louisiana	18.4
4	Alabama	18.3
5	Arkansas	17
6	South Carolina	16.8
7	Tennessee	16.5
8	Texas	16.1
9	Georgia	15.7
10	Indiana	15.7
11	Ohio	15.5
12	Oklahoma	15
13	Delaware	14.9
14	Illinois	14.8
15	North Carolina	14.8
16	California	14.4
17	New Mexico	14.4
18	Missouri	14.4
19	Maryland	14.2
20	Kansas	14.2
21	Virginia	14
22	Michigan	14
23	Florida	13.5
24	Rhode Island	13.4
25	Arizona	13.4
26	Iowa	13.2
27	Wisconsin	13
28	Nebraska	12.8
29	Hawaii	12.8
30	New York	12.8
31	Oregon	12.7
32	Maine	12.3
33	Minnesota	12.2
34	New Jersey	12.2
35	Wyoming	12.2
36	North Dakota	11.9
37	Washington	11.6
38	Idaho	11.6
39	Connecticut	11.4
40	Massachusetts	11.3
41	Colorado	11
42	Utah	10.9
43	Alaska	10.8
44	Montana	10.3
45	Vermont	10.1

More on diabetes

A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.