US States With the Highest Two Weeks of Poor Mental Health

49 US states ranked by two weeks of poor mental health, from highest to lowest. First are West Virginia (23.8), Nevada (21.1) and Tennessee (20.8). The middle one of the 49 has 16.3.

What this measures

Adults who say their mental health was not good on fourteen or more of the last thirty days. 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	23.8
2	Nevada	21.1
3	Tennessee	20.8
4	Maine	20.5
5	Arkansas	20
6	Montana	19.8
7	Louisiana	19.7
8	Oregon	18.4
9	Ohio	18.3
10	Michigan	18.2
11	Oklahoma	18
12	Indiana	17.7
13	Missouri	17.6
14	Vermont	17.4
15	South Carolina	17.2
16	Rhode Island	17.1
17	New Hampshire	17
18	Washington	16.9
19	Alabama	16.8
20	New Mexico	16.8
21	Florida	16.5
22	Kansas	16.4
23	Mississippi	16.4
24	Iowa	16.3
25	Texas	16.3
26	Virginia	16.1
27	Colorado	16
28	Georgia	15.9
29	North Carolina	15.8
30	Wisconsin	15.8
31	Utah	15.7
32	Arizona	15.7
33	Massachusetts	15.6
34	Delaware	15.4
35	South Dakota	15.4
36	Idaho	15.4
37	Connecticut	15.3
38	Alaska	15.2
39	Wyoming	15.1
40	California	15.1
41	Minnesota	15
42	New Jersey	14.8
43	New York	14.7
44	Maryland	14.4
45	Illinois	14.1
46	Nebraska	14
47	Hawaii	13.8
48	North Dakota	13.5
49	District of Columbia	13.2

More on two weeks of poor mental 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.