US States With the Lowest Difficulty Concentrating or Deciding

49 US states ranked by difficulty concentrating or deciding, from lowest to highest. First are New Jersey (11), Hawaii (11.4) and District of Columbia (11.5). The middle one of the 49 has 14.2.

What this measures

Adults with serious trouble concentrating, remembering or making decisions. 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	New Jersey	11
2	Hawaii	11.4
3	District of Columbia	11.5
4	Maryland	11.5
5	Illinois	11.6
6	Connecticut	11.7
7	New York	11.8
8	Nebraska	11.8
9	North Dakota	11.9
10	Minnesota	12.4
11	Alaska	12.5
12	Delaware	12.5
13	Wisconsin	12.8
14	Vermont	12.9
15	Florida	12.9
16	Iowa	13
17	Massachusetts	13.2
18	California	13.4
19	New Hampshire	13.4
20	Georgia	13.5
21	Colorado	13.7
22	Arizona	13.8
23	Washington	13.9
24	Wyoming	14
25	Utah	14.2
26	South Carolina	14.4
27	Ohio	14.5
28	Kansas	14.5
29	South Dakota	14.6
30	Rhode Island	14.6
31	Michigan	14.7
32	New Mexico	14.7
33	Virginia	14.7
34	North Carolina	15
35	Oregon	15.1
36	Texas	15.1
37	Montana	15.3
38	Indiana	15.3
39	Idaho	15.4
40	Nevada	15.9
41	Alabama	16.6
42	Missouri	17.1
43	Maine	17.2
44	Mississippi	17.5
45	Louisiana	18
46	Oklahoma	18.1
47	Tennessee	18.3
48	Arkansas	20.3
49	West Virginia	20.7

More on difficulty concentrating or deciding

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