US Counties With the Lowest Share Aged 65 and Over
3,218 US counties ranked by share aged 65 and over, from lowest to highest. First are Chattahoochee County, GA (3.32%), Madison County, ID (5.32%) and Aleutians West Census Area, AK (6.37%). The middle one of the 3,218 has 19.7%.
What this measures
The percentage of all residents, children included, who are 65 or older. It is a share of everyone, not just of adults. The typical county is 19.7%, and four in five are between 14% and 26%. The extremes come from one big group living there, not from places that aged differently: Sumter County, Florida reaches 57.8% since The Villages retirement community is there. Chattahoochee County, Georgia is 3.3% since it is mostly Fort Benning, an army base, and Madison County, Idaho is 5.3% since it is a university town. Source: Census ACS 5-year.
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 | 11.6% |
| 2 | District of Columbia | 12.7% |
| 3 | Texas | 13.2% |
| 4 | Alaska | 13.3% |
| 5 | Georgia | 14.6% |
| 6 | Colorado | 15.2% |
| 7 | California | 15.3% |
| 8 | Oklahoma | 16.1% |
| 9 | North Dakota | 16.2% |
| 10 | Maryland | 16.3% |
| 11 | Washington | 16.3% |
| 12 | Virginia | 16.3% |
| 13 | Louisiana | 16.3% |
| 14 | Nebraska | 16.4% |
| 15 | Indiana | 16.4% |
| 16 | Illinois | 16.6% |
| 17 | Kansas | 16.6% |
| 18 | Idaho | 16.6% |
| 19 | Nevada | 16.6% |
| 20 | Mississippi | 16.8% |
| 21 | Tennessee | 16.8% |
| 22 | New Jersey | 16.8% |
| 23 | Minnesota | 16.8% |
| 24 | North Carolina | 16.9% |
| 25 | Kentucky | 17% |
| 26 | Arkansas | 17.3% |
| 27 | New York | 17.4% |
| 28 | Massachusetts | 17.5% |
| 29 | Alabama | 17.5% |
| 30 | Missouri | 17.5% |
| 31 | South Dakota | 17.6% |
| 32 | Iowa | 17.8% |
| 33 | Ohio | 17.9% |
| 34 | Wyoming | 18% |
| 35 | Wisconsin | 18% |
| 36 | Connecticut | 18.1% |
| 37 | Michigan | 18.2% |
| 38 | Rhode Island | 18.3% |
| 39 | South Carolina | 18.5% |
| 40 | Arizona | 18.6% |
| 41 | Oregon | 18.6% |
| 42 | New Mexico | 18.8% |
| 43 | Pennsylvania | 19.1% |
| 44 | New Hampshire | 19.5% |
| 45 | Montana | 19.7% |
| 46 | Hawaii | 19.9% |
| 47 | Delaware | 20% |
| 48 | West Virginia | 20.7% |
| 49 | Vermont | 20.8% |
| 50 | Florida | 21.1% |
| 51 | Maine | 21.9% |
| 52 | Puerto Rico | 22.7% |
More on share aged 65 and over
- US Counties With the Highest Share Aged 65 and Over
- Share aged 65 and over 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.