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Children under 6 with all parents in labor force: U.S. states ranked

Measure: Children under 6 with all parents in labor force. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Working parents and women's labor-force participation by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-04

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National value: 70.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 76.2 %
RI 77.3 %
DE 75.3 %
CT 76 %
NJ 75.5 %
MD 73.9 %
MA 79.3 %
VT 76.5 %
NH 75.7 %

Lowest: 58.9 to 68.1 %
Group 2: 68.1 to 69.6 %
Group 3: 69.6 to 71.4 %
Group 4: 71.4 to 75.5 %
Highest: 75.5 to 79.3 %

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	Massachusetts	79.3
2	Minnesota	77.9
3	Rhode Island	77.3
4	Iowa	77.1
5	Vermont	76.5
6	Nebraska	76.3
7	District of Columbia	76.2
7	Wisconsin	76.2
9	Connecticut	76
10	New Hampshire	75.7
11	New Jersey	75.5
12	North Dakota	75.4
13	Delaware	75.3
14	Maryland	73.9
15	Maine	73.2
16	Pennsylvania	72.7
17	South Dakota	72.5
18	Virginia	72.2
19	Illinois	72.1
20	Florida	71.6
21	Ohio	71.4
22	Georgia	71
22	Kansas	71
24	New York	70.8
25	Mississippi	70.7
26	Missouri	70.3
27	Colorado	70
27	Louisiana	70
29	Hawaii	69.9
30	Michigan	69.7
31	New Mexico	69.6
32	California	69.2
33	North Carolina	69.1
34	Indiana	69
35	Arkansas	68.8
35	Oregon	68.8
37	Alabama	68.7
37	South Carolina	68.7
39	Tennessee	68.6
40	Nevada	68.4
41	Kentucky	68.1
42	Wyoming	67.8
43	Oklahoma	67
44	Texas	66.8
45	Montana	66.3
46	Arizona	65.9
47	West Virginia	64.5
48	Washington	64.3
49	Alaska	63.8
50	Idaho	59.4
51	Utah	58.9

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table DP03: Selected Economic Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by children under 6 with all parents in labor force (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP03; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-04. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-children-under-6-with-all-parents-in-labor-force/

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