US Counties With the Lowest Women Aged 15 to 50
3,214 US counties ranked by women aged 15 to 50, from lowest to highest. First are Sumter County, FL (75.74), Forest County, PA (81.36) and Eureka County, NV (94.58). The middle one of the 3,214 has 208.69.
What this measures
The number of women aged 15 to 50, the group the survey asks about recent births. Source: Census ACS 5-year.
This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest counties.
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 | Per 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maine | 211.44 |
| 2 | West Virginia | 212.98 |
| 3 | South Dakota | 215.20 |
| 4 | Montana | 216.80 |
| 5 | New Hampshire | 216.97 |
| 6 | Hawaii | 217.15 |
| 7 | Florida | 218.59 |
| 8 | Wyoming | 219.37 |
| 9 | Vermont | 220.19 |
| 10 | Delaware | 220.96 |
| 11 | Wisconsin | 221.91 |
| 12 | Pennsylvania | 222.74 |
| 13 | Iowa | 223.04 |
| 14 | Michigan | 224.01 |
| 15 | New Mexico | 224.47 |
| 16 | Ohio | 225.36 |
| 17 | North Dakota | 226.06 |
| 18 | Minnesota | 226.09 |
| 19 | Connecticut | 226.48 |
| 20 | Kansas | 226.78 |
| 21 | Kentucky | 227.06 |
| 22 | Nebraska | 227.11 |
| 23 | Arizona | 227.50 |
| 24 | Missouri | 228.14 |
| 25 | New Jersey | 228.19 |
| 26 | South Carolina | 229.19 |
| 27 | Arkansas | 229.48 |
| 28 | Alaska | 229.64 |
| 29 | Indiana | 230.87 |
| 30 | Idaho | 230.90 |
| 31 | Puerto Rico | 231.43 |
| 32 | Oklahoma | 232.61 |
| 33 | Alabama | 232.68 |
| 34 | Nevada | 232.86 |
| 35 | Rhode Island | 233.05 |
| 36 | Oregon | 233.14 |
| 37 | Tennessee | 234.08 |
| 38 | Louisiana | 234.23 |
| 39 | Illinois | 234.54 |
| 40 | Maryland | 234.62 |
| 41 | Mississippi | 235.23 |
| 42 | New York | 235.28 |
| 43 | Washington | 235.58 |
| 44 | Virginia | 235.66 |
| 45 | North Carolina | 235.79 |
| 46 | Massachusetts | 238.43 |
| 47 | California | 241.16 |
| 48 | Colorado | 242.43 |
| 49 | Georgia | 245.60 |
| 50 | Texas | 246.19 |
| 51 | Utah | 253.95 |
| 52 | District of Columbia | 299.46 |
More on women aged 15 to 50
- US Counties With the Highest Women Aged 15 to 50
- Women aged 15 to 50 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.