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Excellent health: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Excellent health. All 49 states and District of Columbia with data in Self-rated health and cost barriers by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-29

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Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 21 %
RI 16.1 %
DE 12.5 %
CT 17.4 %
NJ 18.1 %
MD 15.1 %
MA 18 %
VT 16.9 %
NH 15.9 %

Lowest: 10.2 to 13.4 %
Group 2: 13.4 to 14.5 %
Group 3: 14.5 to 15.8 %
Group 4: 15.8 to 17 %
Highest: 17 to 21 %

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	District of Columbia	21
2	Utah	18.8
3	New Jersey	18.1
4	Massachusetts	18
5	Florida	17.7
6	Connecticut	17.4
6	Virginia	17.4
8	South Dakota	17.2
9	Colorado	17.1
10	Hawaii	17
11	Vermont	16.9
12	Idaho	16.5
13	South Carolina	16.3
14	Rhode Island	16.1
15	Montana	16
16	New Hampshire	15.9
16	Texas	15.9
18	Arizona	15.8
18	California	15.8
18	Missouri	15.8
18	New York	15.8
22	Wyoming	15.7
23	Minnesota	15.4
24	Illinois	15.2
25	Maryland	15.1
26	North Carolina	14.9
26	Washington	14.9
28	North Dakota	14.8
29	Nebraska	14.7
30	New Mexico	14.5
31	Alaska	14.4
31	Georgia	14.4
33	Alabama	14.2
33	Wisconsin	14.2
35	Kansas	13.9
35	Pennsylvania	13.9
37	Maine	13.6
37	Ohio	13.6
39	Louisiana	13.5
40	Iowa	13.4
41	Indiana	13.2
41	Mississippi	13.2
41	Oklahoma	13.2
41	Oregon	13.2
45	Michigan	12.8
46	Arkansas	12.7
46	Nevada	12.7
48	Kentucky	12.6
49	Delaware	12.5
50	West Virginia	10.2

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 excellent health (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 2026-10-29. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-excellent-health/

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