US States With the Highest Fair or Poor Health

49 US states ranked by fair or poor health, from highest to lowest. First are West Virginia (25.6), Arkansas (25.5) and Mississippi (24.8). The middle one of the 49 has 18.2.

What this measures

Adults who describe their own health as fair or poor, not good, very good or excellent. 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	25.6
2	Arkansas	25.5
3	Mississippi	24.8
4	New Mexico	23.6
5	Louisiana	23.4
6	Alabama	23.2
7	Tennessee	23
8	Texas	22.9
9	California	21.1
10	Nevada	20.9
11	Oklahoma	20.5
12	Indiana	20.2
13	Missouri	19.8
14	South Carolina	19.7
15	Ohio	19.5
16	North Carolina	19.4
17	Arizona	19.2
18	Michigan	19.1
19	Delaware	19
20	Alaska	19
21	Maine	18.6
22	Oregon	18.6
23	Georgia	18.6
24	Illinois	18.3
25	Florida	18.2
26	Montana	18
27	Virginia	17.8
28	Rhode Island	17.7
29	Wyoming	17.5
30	Iowa	17.4
31	New Jersey	17.3
32	South Dakota	17.2
33	Kansas	17
34	Wisconsin	16.9
35	Maryland	16.9
36	New York	16.8
37	Washington	16.1
38	Hawaii	16.1
39	Nebraska	15.9
40	Idaho	15.8
41	Massachusetts	15.6
42	Minnesota	15.5
43	Colorado	15.2
44	Utah	14.8
45	North Dakota	14.7
46	New Hampshire	14.4
47	Connecticut	14.4
48	District of Columbia	14.1
49	Vermont	13.6

More on fair or poor health

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