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Blind or serious difficulty seeing: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Blind or serious difficulty seeing. All 49 states and District of Columbia with data in Types of disability among adults by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-03

Download full table CSV Source: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (opens in a new tab)

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 5.1 %
RI 5 %
DE 5.1 %
CT 4.7 %
NJ 5.1 %
MD 4.5 %
MA 4.2 %
VT 3.4 %
NH 3.8 %

Lowest: 3.4 to 4.2 %
Group 2: 4.2 to 5 %
Group 3: 5 to 5.2 %
Group 4: 5.2 to 6.3 %
Highest: 6.3 to 11.1 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Mississippi	11.1
2	Louisiana	7.9
3	Nevada	7.4
4	Arkansas	7.3
4	Texas	7.3
6	Oklahoma	7.2
7	West Virginia	6.8
8	Kentucky	6.5
9	Alabama	6.3
9	Georgia	6.3
11	South Carolina	6.2
12	Florida	6
13	Arizona	5.9
14	New York	5.5
14	Pennsylvania	5.5
16	Illinois	5.4
16	Indiana	5.4
16	New Mexico	5.4
19	Idaho	5.3
20	California	5.2
20	Missouri	5.2
20	Ohio	5.2
23	Delaware	5.1
23	District of Columbia	5.1
23	New Jersey	5.1
26	Hawaii	5
26	Michigan	5
26	Montana	5
26	Rhode Island	5
26	Virginia	5
31	Wyoming	4.9
32	Kansas	4.8
32	North Carolina	4.8
34	Connecticut	4.7
34	Oregon	4.7
34	Utah	4.7
37	Colorado	4.6
38	Maryland	4.5
39	Alaska	4.3
40	Maine	4.2
40	Massachusetts	4.2
42	Wisconsin	4.1
43	South Dakota	4
44	Nebraska	3.9
44	North Dakota	3.9
44	Washington	3.9
47	New Hampshire	3.8
48	Minnesota	3.7
49	Iowa	3.5
50	Vermont	3.4

Source: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, BRFSS Prevalence Data (2011 to present), data.cdc.gov dataset dttw-5yxu. Reference period: 2024.

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U.S. states ranked by blind or serious difficulty seeing (2024). Data: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), BRFSS Prevalence Data (2011 to present), data.cdc.gov dataset dttw-5yxu; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-blind-or-serious-difficulty-seeing/

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