US States With the Lowest Has Health Insurance

49 US states ranked by has health insurance, from lowest to highest. First are Texas (80.9), Nevada (85.5) and Georgia (86.2). The middle one of the 49 has 92.

What this measures

Adults with any kind of health insurance. Neither end is marked as better here, just as for the county version of this measure. 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	Texas	80.9
2	Nevada	85.5
3	Georgia	86.2
4	Florida	86.4
5	Wyoming	87.8
6	Arkansas	87.9
7	South Carolina	88
8	Mississippi	88
9	Arizona	88.5
10	New Mexico	89.2
11	Oklahoma	89.3
12	North Carolina	89.6
13	Tennessee	89.7
14	New Jersey	89.8
15	Colorado	90.1
16	Idaho	90.2
17	Nebraska	90.4
18	Alabama	90.5
19	Montana	90.7
20	Kansas	91
21	Virginia	91.1
22	South Dakota	91.2
23	Utah	91.2
24	Connecticut	91.4
25	Indiana	92
26	Alaska	92.1
27	Maryland	92.3
28	Washington	92.3
29	California	92.3
30	Delaware	92.5
31	Illinois	92.6
32	Missouri	92.8
33	Maine	92.8
34	Wisconsin	93
35	Ohio	93.1
36	Rhode Island	93.6
37	Iowa	93.6
38	Oregon	93.6
39	West Virginia	93.7
40	New York	93.7
41	Minnesota	94
42	Louisiana	94.2
43	Michigan	94.9
44	North Dakota	95
45	New Hampshire	95.2
46	Vermont	95.4
47	District of Columbia	96.8
48	Massachusetts	96.9
49	Hawaii	97.2

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