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Fair or poor health: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Fair or poor 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

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 12.7 %
RI 17.4 %
DE 18.6 %
CT 15.7 %
NJ 16.9 %
MD 16.5 %
MA 14.8 %
VT 13.5 %
NH 15 %

Lowest: 12.7 to 16.5 %
Group 2: 16.5 to 18 %
Group 3: 18 to 19.7 %
Group 4: 19.7 to 21.1 %
Highest: 21.1 to 26.3 %

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. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.


1	West Virginia	26.3
2	Arkansas	24.7
3	Louisiana	24.1
4	Kentucky	24
5	Mississippi	23
6	Alabama	22.1
7	Nevada	22
8	New Mexico	21.5
9	Texas	21.2
10	California	21.1
10	Michigan	21.1
12	Indiana	20.9
13	Oklahoma	20.8
14	Oregon	20.7
15	Arizona	20.1
16	Missouri	20
16	Pennsylvania	20
18	Georgia	19.9
19	Illinois	19.8
20	South Carolina	19.7
21	Florida	19.4
22	Maine	19.2
23	Ohio	19.1
23	Wisconsin	19.1
25	Delaware	18.6
25	New York	18.6
27	Wyoming	18.3
28	Kansas	18.1
29	Iowa	18
29	Montana	18
31	South Dakota	17.9
32	Alaska	17.8
33	North Carolina	17.6
34	Rhode Island	17.4
35	Washington	17.2
36	Hawaii	17.1
37	New Jersey	16.9
38	Virginia	16.8
39	Nebraska	16.6
40	Maryland	16.5
41	Idaho	16
42	Connecticut	15.7
43	Colorado	15.3
44	Minnesota	15.2
44	North Dakota	15.2
46	Utah	15.1
47	New Hampshire	15
48	Massachusetts	14.8
49	Vermont	13.5
50	District of Columbia	12.7

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 fair or poor 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-fair-or-poor-health/

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