US Counties With the Lowest Share Divorced
3,185 US counties ranked by share divorced, from lowest to highest. First are Madison County, ID (2.17%), McCone County, MT (3.58%) and Kusilvak Census Area, AK (3.62%). The middle one of the 3,185 has 11.9%.
What this measures
The percentage of people aged 15 and over who are divorced and have not remarried. It counts who is divorced now, not how many divorces happen. A county where many marriages end but people quickly remarry can show a low figure. 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 | District of Columbia | 8.54% |
| 2 | New Jersey | 8.66% |
| 3 | Utah | 8.83% |
| 4 | New York | 9% |
| 5 | California | 9% |
| 6 | Massachusetts | 9.34% |
| 7 | Hawaii | 9.34% |
| 8 | Illinois | 9.67% |
| 9 | Pennsylvania | 9.74% |
| 10 | Maryland | 9.79% |
| 11 | North Dakota | 9.84% |
| 12 | Virginia | 10% |
| 13 | Texas | 10.1% |
| 14 | Minnesota | 10.2% |
| 15 | Nebraska | 10.4% |
| 16 | Connecticut | 10.4% |
| 17 | South Carolina | 10.4% |
| 18 | South Dakota | 10.6% |
| 19 | Iowa | 10.6% |
| 20 | North Carolina | 10.6% |
| 21 | Wisconsin | 10.9% |
| 22 | Delaware | 10.9% |
| 23 | Rhode Island | 10.9% |
| 24 | Georgia | 11.2% |
| 25 | Alaska | 11.2% |
| 26 | Kansas | 11.2% |
| 27 | Washington | 11.3% |
| 28 | Colorado | 11.3% |
| 29 | Michigan | 11.5% |
| 30 | Mississippi | 11.6% |
| 31 | Idaho | 11.6% |
| 32 | Louisiana | 11.8% |
| 33 | Arizona | 11.8% |
| 34 | Ohio | 11.9% |
| 35 | Tennessee | 12% |
| 36 | New Hampshire | 12% |
| 37 | Missouri | 12.1% |
| 38 | Alabama | 12.1% |
| 39 | Wyoming | 12.3% |
| 40 | Indiana | 12.3% |
| 41 | Vermont | 12.4% |
| 42 | Montana | 12.5% |
| 43 | Florida | 12.6% |
| 44 | Oregon | 12.7% |
| 45 | Oklahoma | 12.7% |
| 46 | Arkansas | 12.8% |
| 47 | Kentucky | 13% |
| 48 | Nevada | 13.3% |
| 49 | New Mexico | 13.3% |
| 50 | West Virginia | 13.4% |
| 51 | Maine | 13.4% |
| 52 | Puerto Rico | 13.9% |
More on share divorced
- US Counties With the Highest Share Divorced
- Share divorced 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.