US Counties With the Lowest Children in Single-parent Households
2,826 US counties ranked by children in single-parent households, from lowest to highest. First are Custer County, ID (0%), Meagher County, MT (0%) and Blaine County, NE (0%). The middle one of the 2,826 has 0.228%.
What this measures
The percentage of children who live in a household headed by one parent. 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 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utah | 0.146% |
| 2 | Idaho | 0.17% |
| 3 | North Dakota | 0.181% |
| 4 | Wyoming | 0.181% |
| 5 | New Hampshire | 0.184% |
| 6 | Maine | 0.188% |
| 7 | Washington | 0.192% |
| 8 | Minnesota | 0.194% |
| 9 | Iowa | 0.201% |
| 10 | Montana | 0.201% |
| 11 | Nebraska | 0.202% |
| 12 | South Dakota | 0.206% |
| 13 | Oregon | 0.211% |
| 14 | Vermont | 0.211% |
| 15 | Kansas | 0.212% |
| 16 | Colorado | 0.214% |
| 17 | Alaska | 0.214% |
| 18 | New Jersey | 0.214% |
| 19 | Hawaii | 0.219% |
| 20 | Wisconsin | 0.223% |
| 21 | California | 0.225% |
| 22 | Massachusetts | 0.233% |
| 23 | Missouri | 0.235% |
| 24 | Virginia | 0.236% |
| 25 | Indiana | 0.238% |
| 26 | West Virginia | 0.242% |
| 27 | Illinois | 0.249% |
| 28 | Michigan | 0.25% |
| 29 | Connecticut | 0.25% |
| 30 | Pennsylvania | 0.253% |
| 31 | Arizona | 0.254% |
| 32 | Texas | 0.254% |
| 33 | Kentucky | 0.255% |
| 34 | Oklahoma | 0.255% |
| 35 | Rhode Island | 0.256% |
| 36 | Maryland | 0.257% |
| 37 | Ohio | 0.261% |
| 38 | New York | 0.263% |
| 39 | North Carolina | 0.27% |
| 40 | Tennessee | 0.273% |
| 41 | Nevada | 0.274% |
| 42 | Florida | 0.274% |
| 43 | Arkansas | 0.278% |
| 44 | Delaware | 0.295% |
| 45 | South Carolina | 0.296% |
| 46 | Georgia | 0.304% |
| 47 | New Mexico | 0.305% |
| 48 | Alabama | 0.306% |
| 49 | Louisiana | 0.345% |
| 50 | Mississippi | 0.37% |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 0.454% |
More on children in single-parent households
- US Counties With the Highest Children in Single-parent Households
- Children in single-parent households 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.