US States With the Lowest Diabetes

45 US states ranked by diabetes, from lowest to highest. First are Vermont (10.1), Montana (10.3) and Alaska (10.8). The middle one of the 45 has 13.5.

What this measures

Adults who have ever been told they have diabetes, not counting diabetes that only appeared during pregnancy. 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	Vermont	10.1
2	Montana	10.3
3	Alaska	10.8
4	Utah	10.9
5	Colorado	11
6	Massachusetts	11.3
7	Connecticut	11.4
8	Idaho	11.6
9	Washington	11.6
10	North Dakota	11.9
11	Wyoming	12.2
12	New Jersey	12.2
13	Minnesota	12.2
14	Maine	12.3
15	Oregon	12.7
16	New York	12.8
17	Hawaii	12.8
18	Nebraska	12.8
19	Wisconsin	13
20	Iowa	13.2
21	Arizona	13.4
22	Rhode Island	13.4
23	Florida	13.5
24	Michigan	14
25	Virginia	14
26	Kansas	14.2
27	Maryland	14.2
28	Missouri	14.4
29	New Mexico	14.4
30	California	14.4
31	North Carolina	14.8
32	Illinois	14.8
33	Delaware	14.9
34	Oklahoma	15
35	Ohio	15.5
36	Indiana	15.7
37	Georgia	15.7
38	Texas	16.1
39	Tennessee	16.5
40	South Carolina	16.8
41	Arkansas	17
42	Alabama	18.3
43	Louisiana	18.4
44	West Virginia	19.5
45	Mississippi	20

More on diabetes

A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.