US States With the Highest High Blood Pressure ()

49 US states ranked by high blood pressure (), from highest to lowest. First are Mississippi (46.6), Alabama (44.3) and Louisiana (44.1). The middle one of the 49 has 33.2.

What this measures

Adults who have ever been told by a doctor that they have high blood pressure. 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	46.6
2	Alabama	44.3
3	Louisiana	44.1
4	West Virginia	43.6
5	Arkansas	42.8
6	Tennessee	40.7
7	Oklahoma	39
8	Indiana	38
9	South Carolina	37.4
10	North Carolina	36.9
11	Georgia	36.6
12	Michigan	36.5
13	Ohio	36.4
14	Delaware	36.2
15	Virginia	36
16	Maryland	35.9
17	Missouri	35.7
18	Alaska	35.2
19	Kansas	34.8
20	District of Columbia	34.4
21	Iowa	34.3
22	South Dakota	34.1
23	New Mexico	34.1
24	Texas	33.4
25	Nevada	33.2
26	North Dakota	33.2
27	Rhode Island	33.2
28	Illinois	33
29	Nebraska	32.8
30	New Jersey	32.7
31	Oregon	32.7
32	Florida	32.5
33	Arizona	32.5
34	Wisconsin	32.5
35	Maine	32.5
36	New York	31.7
37	California	31.7
38	New Hampshire	31.2
39	Idaho	31
40	Washington	30.9
41	Hawaii	30.9
42	Connecticut	30.9
43	Montana	30.8
44	Utah	30.8
45	Vermont	30.6
46	Minnesota	30.5
47	Wyoming	30.5
48	Massachusetts	30.3
49	Colorado	28

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