US Counties With the Highest Membership Organisations
3,144 US counties ranked by membership organisations, from highest to lowest. First are Thomas County, NE (59.6), Griggs County, ND (53.3) and Comanche County, KS (47.6). The middle one of the 3,144 has 10.7.
What this measures
Membership groups per 10,000 people, such as churches, clubs, unions and sports leagues. They are counted from the government's list of businesses and organizations. 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 | per 10,000 people |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 29.4 |
| 2 | North Dakota | 15.6 |
| 3 | South Dakota | 15.6 |
| 4 | Iowa | 14.2 |
| 5 | Montana | 14.1 |
| 6 | Wyoming | 13.7 |
| 7 | Nebraska | 13.7 |
| 8 | Kansas | 13.2 |
| 9 | Vermont | 12.6 |
| 10 | West Virginia | 12.6 |
| 11 | Mississippi | 12.5 |
| 12 | Minnesota | 12.4 |
| 13 | Indiana | 11.8 |
| 14 | Pennsylvania | 11.8 |
| 15 | Arkansas | 11.7 |
| 16 | Alabama | 11.7 |
| 17 | Missouri | 11.4 |
| 18 | North Carolina | 11.3 |
| 19 | South Carolina | 11.2 |
| 20 | Oklahoma | 11.2 |
| 21 | Wisconsin | 11.1 |
| 22 | Tennessee | 11 |
| 23 | Virginia | 11 |
| 24 | Alaska | 10.9 |
| 25 | Ohio | 10.8 |
| 26 | Maine | 10.6 |
| 27 | Kentucky | 10.2 |
| 28 | New Hampshire | 10.1 |
| 29 | Delaware | 10.1 |
| 30 | Oregon | 9.88 |
| 31 | Rhode Island | 9.81 |
| 32 | Illinois | 9.74 |
| 33 | Michigan | 9.49 |
| 34 | Louisiana | 9.32 |
| 35 | Massachusetts | 9.06 |
| 36 | Maryland | 8.84 |
| 37 | Georgia | 8.83 |
| 38 | Connecticut | 8.76 |
| 39 | Colorado | 8.74 |
| 40 | Washington | 8.25 |
| 41 | New Jersey | 8.11 |
| 42 | New Mexico | 8.03 |
| 43 | New York | 7.88 |
| 44 | Texas | 7.38 |
| 45 | Idaho | 7.2 |
| 46 | Florida | 6.95 |
| 47 | Hawaii | 6.49 |
| 48 | California | 6.17 |
| 49 | Arizona | 5.65 |
| 50 | Nevada | 4.38 |
| 51 | Utah | 3.48 |
More on membership organisations
- US Counties With the Lowest Membership Organisations
- Membership organisations 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.