US States With the Highest Two Weeks of Poor Physical Health

47 US states ranked by two weeks of poor physical health, from highest to lowest. First are West Virginia (18.5), Arkansas (16.4) and New Mexico (15.5). The middle one of the 47 has 12.5.

What this measures

Adults who say their physical 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	18.5
2	Arkansas	16.4
3	New Mexico	15.5
4	Tennessee	15.2
5	Louisiana	15
6	Maine	14.6
7	Mississippi	14.5
8	Indiana	14.3
9	Missouri	14.2
10	Michigan	14.1
11	Oregon	14
12	Oklahoma	13.9
13	Alaska	13.8
14	Ohio	13.8
15	South Carolina	13.7
16	Montana	13.5
17	Alabama	13.4
18	Rhode Island	13.1
19	Wyoming	13
20	Idaho	12.8
21	Florida	12.8
22	Georgia	12.8
23	New Hampshire	12.5
24	New York	12.5
25	New Jersey	12.5
26	California	12.4
27	Virginia	12.4
28	Kansas	12.4
29	North Carolina	12.2
30	Washington	12.2
31	Utah	12.2
32	Vermont	12.1
33	Wisconsin	12
34	Texas	11.9
35	Arizona	11.9
36	Colorado	11.8
37	Delaware	11.8
38	Iowa	11.7
39	Massachusetts	11.6
40	Illinois	11.5
41	Connecticut	11.4
42	Maryland	11.3
43	Nebraska	10.9
44	Minnesota	10.6
45	Hawaii	10.6
46	North Dakota	9.99
47	District of Columbia	9.95

More on two weeks of poor physical 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.