US Counties With the Highest Population Aged 25 and Over
3,220 US counties ranked by population aged 25 and over, from highest to lowest. First are Kalawao County, HI (1000.00), Sumter County, FL (900.20) and Esmeralda County, NV (898.13). The middle one of the 3,220 has 698.44.
What this measures
The number of residents aged 25 and over. Education levels are measured for this age group, since most people have finished school by then. Source: Census ACS 5-year.
This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest counties.
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 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puerto Rico | 741.07 |
| 2 | Maine | 738.06 |
| 3 | New Hampshire | 727.18 |
| 4 | Florida | 722.79 |
| 5 | District of Columbia | 720.76 |
| 6 | Vermont | 717.55 |
| 7 | Oregon | 712.72 |
| 8 | West Virginia | 711.25 |
| 9 | Hawaii | 710.69 |
| 10 | Rhode Island | 708.89 |
| 11 | Massachusetts | 707.28 |
| 12 | Delaware | 706.29 |
| 13 | Pennsylvania | 704.82 |
| 14 | New York | 704.30 |
| 15 | Connecticut | 703.91 |
| 16 | Nevada | 699.17 |
| 17 | Washington | 698.76 |
| 18 | Montana | 697.10 |
| 19 | New Jersey | 697.01 |
| 20 | Colorado | 695.00 |
| 21 | Michigan | 693.17 |
| 22 | South Carolina | 692.61 |
| 23 | Maryland | 692.43 |
| 24 | Wisconsin | 690.70 |
| 25 | Ohio | 689.58 |
| 26 | Illinois | 688.47 |
| 27 | Virginia | 688.29 |
| 28 | Tennessee | 687.87 |
| 29 | Arizona | 686.64 |
| 30 | California | 686.52 |
| 31 | New Mexico | 686.13 |
| 32 | North Carolina | 686.09 |
| 33 | Missouri | 683.73 |
| 34 | Kentucky | 682.42 |
| 35 | Alabama | 682.26 |
| 36 | Wyoming | 682.18 |
| 37 | Minnesota | 682.15 |
| 38 | Arkansas | 673.93 |
| 39 | Louisiana | 673.08 |
| 40 | Georgia | 670.18 |
| 41 | Iowa | 669.76 |
| 42 | Indiana | 669.33 |
| 43 | Mississippi | 667.57 |
| 44 | Alaska | 664.74 |
| 45 | South Dakota | 662.97 |
| 46 | Oklahoma | 661.11 |
| 47 | Kansas | 658.13 |
| 48 | Idaho | 657.21 |
| 49 | Nebraska | 656.33 |
| 50 | North Dakota | 653.29 |
| 51 | Texas | 650.97 |
| 52 | Utah | 601.32 |
More on population aged 25 and over
- US Counties With the Lowest Population Aged 25 and Over
- Population aged 25 and over 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.