US States With the Lowest Two Weeks of Poor Mental Health

49 US states ranked by two weeks of poor mental health, from lowest to highest. First are District of Columbia (13.2), North Dakota (13.5) and Hawaii (13.8). The middle one of the 49 has 16.3.

What this measures

Adults who say their mental health was not good on fourteen or more of the last thirty days. 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	District of Columbia	13.2
2	North Dakota	13.5
3	Hawaii	13.8
4	Nebraska	14
5	Illinois	14.1
6	Maryland	14.4
7	New York	14.7
8	New Jersey	14.8
9	Minnesota	15
10	California	15.1
11	Wyoming	15.1
12	Alaska	15.2
13	Connecticut	15.3
14	Idaho	15.4
15	South Dakota	15.4
16	Delaware	15.4
17	Massachusetts	15.6
18	Arizona	15.7
19	Utah	15.7
20	Wisconsin	15.8
21	North Carolina	15.8
22	Georgia	15.9
23	Colorado	16
24	Virginia	16.1
25	Texas	16.3
26	Iowa	16.3
27	Mississippi	16.4
28	Kansas	16.4
29	Florida	16.5
30	New Mexico	16.8
31	Alabama	16.8
32	Washington	16.9
33	New Hampshire	17
34	Rhode Island	17.1
35	South Carolina	17.2
36	Vermont	17.4
37	Missouri	17.6
38	Indiana	17.7
39	Oklahoma	18
40	Michigan	18.2
41	Ohio	18.3
42	Oregon	18.4
43	Louisiana	19.7
44	Montana	19.8
45	Arkansas	20
46	Maine	20.5
47	Tennessee	20.8
48	Nevada	21.1
49	West Virginia	23.8

More on two weeks of poor mental health

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