US States With the Lowest Obesity (CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System)

49 US states ranked by obesity (CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System), from lowest to highest. First are District of Columbia (24.2), Colorado (24.7) and Hawaii (27). The middle one of the 49 has 34.4.

What this measures

Adults with a body mass index (a measure of weight for height) of 30 or more, worked out from the height and weight they reported themselves. Source: CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

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	District of Columbia	24.2
2	Colorado	24.7
3	Hawaii	27
4	Massachusetts	27.3
5	California	28
6	New York	28.1
7	New Jersey	28.7
8	Connecticut	29.4
9	Vermont	29.6
10	Florida	29.8
11	Montana	30.5
12	Washington	30.8
13	Utah	30.9
14	Nevada	31
15	Idaho	31.1
16	Arizona	32.4
17	Rhode Island	32.6
18	Minnesota	33.2
19	Maine	33.2
20	New Hampshire	33.2
21	Oregon	33.5
22	Wyoming	33.5
23	North Carolina	33.9
24	Maryland	34
25	Virginia	34.4
26	Texas	34.7
27	Georgia	35.3
28	Missouri	35.4
29	Alaska	35.4
30	Michigan	35.7
31	Wisconsin	35.8
32	Delaware	35.9
33	Illinois	36
34	South Carolina	36.2
35	North Dakota	36.4
36	Kansas	36.6
37	South Dakota	36.6
38	Ohio	36.9
39	Nebraska	37
40	New Mexico	37
41	Tennessee	38.1
42	Iowa	38.2
43	Indiana	38.3
44	Oklahoma	39.5
45	Alabama	39.8
46	Louisiana	40.2
47	Arkansas	40.7
48	Mississippi	40.9
49	West Virginia	42.3

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