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Deaf or serious difficulty hearing: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Deaf or serious difficulty hearing. 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.

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Data last updated
2026-11-03
Download full table CSVSource: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (opens in a new tab)
Washington: 6.7Idaho: 9.2Montana: 9.9North Dakota: 7.8Minnesota: 6.7Michigan: 7.1Ohio: 6.6Pennsylvania: 6.7New York: 5.2Vermont: 6.5New Hampshire: 8.2Maine: 7.9Arizona: 8.3California: 6.2New Mexico: 9.3Texas: 6.6Louisiana: 8.4Mississippi: 11.8Alabama: 8.6Florida: 7Georgia: 6.4South Carolina: 7.1North Carolina: 8.2Virginia: 6.8District of Columbia: 3.9Maryland: 5.3Delaware: 5.6New Jersey: 5.2Connecticut: 6.1Rhode Island: 6.4Massachusetts: 5.8Oregon: 7.6Utah: 6.5Wyoming: 9.6Nevada: 8.4Colorado: 6.8South Dakota: 7.6Nebraska: 7.3Kansas: 8.1Oklahoma: 10.3Iowa: 7.1Missouri: 9.9Wisconsin: 7.2Illinois: 6Kentucky: 8.5Arkansas: 10.3Tennessee: not in this tableWest Virginia: 10.5Indiana: 8.2Alaska: 8.7Hawaii: 6.8

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 3.9 to 6.4 %
  • Group 2: 6.4 to 6.8 %
  • Group 3: 6.8 to 7.9 %
  • Group 4: 7.9 to 8.7 %
  • Highest: 8.7 to 11.8 %
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.

1Mississippi11.8
2West Virginia10.5
3Arkansas10.3
3Oklahoma10.3
5Missouri9.9
5Montana9.9
7Wyoming9.6
8New Mexico9.3
9Idaho9.2
10Alaska8.7
11Alabama8.6
12Kentucky8.5
13Louisiana8.4
13Nevada8.4
15Arizona8.3
16Indiana8.2
16New Hampshire8.2
16North Carolina8.2
19Kansas8.1
20Maine7.9
21North Dakota7.8
22Oregon7.6
22South Dakota7.6
24Nebraska7.3
25Wisconsin7.2
26Iowa7.1
26Michigan7.1
26South Carolina7.1
29Florida7
30Colorado6.8
30Hawaii6.8
30Virginia6.8
33Minnesota6.7
33Pennsylvania6.7
33Washington6.7
36Ohio6.6
36Texas6.6
38Utah6.5
38Vermont6.5
40Georgia6.4
40Rhode Island6.4
42California6.2
43Connecticut6.1
44Illinois6
45Massachusetts5.8
46Delaware5.6
47Maryland5.3
48New Jersey5.2
48New York5.2
50District of Columbia3.9

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 deaf or serious difficulty hearing (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-deaf-or-serious-difficulty-hearing/

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