US States With the Lowest Two Weeks of Poor Physical Health

47 US states ranked by two weeks of poor physical health, from lowest to highest. First are District of Columbia (9.95), North Dakota (9.99) and Hawaii (10.6). The middle one of the 47 has 12.5.

What this measures

Adults who say their physical 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	9.95
2	North Dakota	9.99
3	Hawaii	10.6
4	Minnesota	10.6
5	Nebraska	10.9
6	Maryland	11.3
7	Connecticut	11.4
8	Illinois	11.5
9	Massachusetts	11.6
10	Iowa	11.7
11	Delaware	11.8
12	Colorado	11.8
13	Arizona	11.9
14	Texas	11.9
15	Wisconsin	12
16	Vermont	12.1
17	Utah	12.2
18	Washington	12.2
19	North Carolina	12.2
20	Kansas	12.4
21	Virginia	12.4
22	California	12.4
23	New Jersey	12.5
24	New York	12.5
25	New Hampshire	12.5
26	Georgia	12.8
27	Florida	12.8
28	Idaho	12.8
29	Wyoming	13
30	Rhode Island	13.1
31	Alabama	13.4
32	Montana	13.5
33	South Carolina	13.7
34	Ohio	13.8
35	Alaska	13.8
36	Oklahoma	13.9
37	Oregon	14
38	Michigan	14.1
39	Missouri	14.2
40	Indiana	14.3
41	Mississippi	14.5
42	Maine	14.6
43	Louisiana	15
44	Tennessee	15.2
45	New Mexico	15.5
46	Arkansas	16.4
47	West Virginia	18.5

More on two weeks of poor physical 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.