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Share with employer-based health insurance: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share with employer-based health insurance (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Health insurance by type by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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

Download full table CSV Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Table S2703) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Table S2704) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 53.1 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 61.4 %
RI 55.1 %
DE 57.7 %
CT 56.8 %
NJ 58.8 %
MD 59.8 %
MA 59.9 %
VT 53.7 %
NH 59 %

Lowest: 41.8 to 50.4 %
Group 2: 50.4 to 52.2 %
Group 3: 52.2 to 55.6 %
Group 4: 55.6 to 57.9 %
Highest: 57.9 to 62.9 %

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	Utah	62.9
2	District of Columbia	61.4
3	North Dakota	60.9
4	Minnesota	60.2
5	Massachusetts	59.9
6	Maryland	59.8
7	New Hampshire	59
8	New Jersey	58.8
9	Illinois	58.2
10	Nebraska	58
11	Hawaii	57.9
11	Michigan	57.9
13	Delaware	57.7
13	Wisconsin	57.7
15	Virginia	57
16	Connecticut	56.8
16	Iowa	56.8
18	Washington	56.5
19	Pennsylvania	56.1
20	Ohio	55.8
21	Colorado	55.6
21	Kansas	55.6
23	Missouri	55.3
24	Rhode Island	55.1
25	Indiana	54.8
26	Vermont	53.7
27	Wyoming	52.8
28	Idaho	52.5
28	Oregon	52.5
30	New York	52.4
31	South Dakota	52.2
32	California	52
33	Alabama	51.8
34	Nevada	51.6
35	Georgia	51.5
36	Tennessee	51.4
37	Maine	51.3
38	North Carolina	50.7
38	West Virginia	50.7
40	Kentucky	50.4
40	Texas	50.4
42	Arizona	49.9
43	Alaska	49.5
44	South Carolina	49.1
45	Oklahoma	47.6
46	Arkansas	47.2
47	Louisiana	46.6
48	Montana	46.5
49	Mississippi	45.1
50	Florida	44.3
51	New Mexico	41.8

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S2703: Private Health Insurance Coverage by Type and Selected Characteristics
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S2704: Public Health Insurance Coverage by Type and Selected Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

Cite this ranking

U.S. states ranked by share with employer-based health insurance (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Tables S2703 and S2704; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-employer-based/

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