US States With the Highest Difficulty Concentrating or Deciding

49 US states ranked by difficulty concentrating or deciding, from highest to lowest. First are West Virginia (20.7), Arkansas (20.3) and Tennessee (18.3). The middle one of the 49 has 14.2.

What this measures

Adults with serious trouble concentrating, remembering or making decisions. 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	West Virginia	20.7
2	Arkansas	20.3
3	Tennessee	18.3
4	Oklahoma	18.1
5	Louisiana	18
6	Mississippi	17.5
7	Maine	17.2
8	Missouri	17.1
9	Alabama	16.6
10	Nevada	15.9
11	Idaho	15.4
12	Indiana	15.3
13	Montana	15.3
14	Texas	15.1
15	Oregon	15.1
16	North Carolina	15
17	Virginia	14.7
18	New Mexico	14.7
19	Michigan	14.7
20	Rhode Island	14.6
21	South Dakota	14.6
22	Kansas	14.5
23	Ohio	14.5
24	South Carolina	14.4
25	Utah	14.2
26	Wyoming	14
27	Washington	13.9
28	Arizona	13.8
29	Colorado	13.7
30	Georgia	13.5
31	New Hampshire	13.4
32	California	13.4
33	Massachusetts	13.2
34	Iowa	13
35	Florida	12.9
36	Vermont	12.9
37	Wisconsin	12.8
38	Delaware	12.5
39	Alaska	12.5
40	Minnesota	12.4
41	North Dakota	11.9
42	Nebraska	11.8
43	New York	11.8
44	Connecticut	11.7
45	Illinois	11.6
46	Maryland	11.5
47	District of Columbia	11.5
48	Hawaii	11.4
49	New Jersey	11

More on difficulty concentrating or deciding

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