QuadranacA North American Statistical Almanac

Home › Rankings

Number of households: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Number of households. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Households and average household size by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence
Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated
2026-10-29
Download full table CSVSource: U.S. Census Bureau (Table B11001) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Table B25010) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 134,063,422 (United States).

Washington: 3,180,129Idaho: 765,200Montana: 481,275North Dakota: 352,013Minnesota: 2,391,870Michigan: 4,150,990Ohio: 4,957,873Pennsylvania: 5,405,581New York: 7,867,612Vermont: 285,750New Hampshire: 574,089Maine: 620,759Arizona: 3,040,935California: 13,898,622New Mexico: 863,010Texas: 11,607,274Louisiana: 1,855,847Mississippi: 1,197,317Alabama: 2,070,835Florida: 9,326,796Georgia: 4,269,857South Carolina: 2,296,350North Carolina: 4,539,531Virginia: 3,480,219District of Columbia: 333,195Maryland: 2,428,843Delaware: 422,123New Jersey: 3,565,008Connecticut: 1,456,915Rhode Island: 450,467Massachusetts: 2,827,794Oregon: 1,745,361Utah: 1,208,124Wyoming: 256,608Nevada: 1,245,703Colorado: 2,483,142South Dakota: 387,580Nebraska: 827,249Kansas: 1,205,638Oklahoma: 1,616,177Iowa: 1,355,504Missouri: 2,604,619Wisconsin: 2,567,583Illinois: 5,134,283Kentucky: 1,885,581Arkansas: 1,277,805Tennessee: 2,954,096West Virginia: 747,801Indiana: 2,816,686Alaska: 278,920Hawaii: 500,883

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • DC 333,195
  • RI 450,467
  • DE 422,123
  • CT 1,456,915
  • NJ 3,565,008
  • MD 2,428,843
  • MA 2,827,794
  • VT 285,750
  • NH 574,089
  • Lowest: 256,608 to 574,089
  • Group 2: 574,089 to 1,277,805
  • Group 3: 1,277,805 to 2,428,843
  • Group 4: 2,428,843 to 3,565,008
  • Highest: 3,565,008 to 13,898,622
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.

1California13,898,622
2Texas11,607,274
3Florida9,326,796
4New York7,867,612
5Pennsylvania5,405,581
6Illinois5,134,283
7Ohio4,957,873
8North Carolina4,539,531
9Georgia4,269,857
10Michigan4,150,990
11New Jersey3,565,008
12Virginia3,480,219
13Washington3,180,129
14Arizona3,040,935
15Tennessee2,954,096
16Massachusetts2,827,794
17Indiana2,816,686
18Missouri2,604,619
19Wisconsin2,567,583
20Colorado2,483,142
21Maryland2,428,843
22Minnesota2,391,870
23South Carolina2,296,350
24Alabama2,070,835
25Kentucky1,885,581
26Louisiana1,855,847
27Oregon1,745,361
28Oklahoma1,616,177
29Connecticut1,456,915
30Iowa1,355,504
31Arkansas1,277,805
32Nevada1,245,703
33Utah1,208,124
34Kansas1,205,638
35Mississippi1,197,317
36New Mexico863,010
37Nebraska827,249
38Idaho765,200
39West Virginia747,801
40Maine620,759
41New Hampshire574,089
42Hawaii500,883
43Montana481,275
44Rhode Island450,467
45Delaware422,123
46South Dakota387,580
47North Dakota352,013
48District of Columbia333,195
49Vermont285,750
50Alaska278,920
51Wyoming256,608

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table B11001: Household Type (Including Living Alone)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table B25010: Average Household Size of Occupied Housing Units by Tenure. Reference period: 2025.

Cite this ranking

U.S. states ranked by number of households (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Tables B11001 and B25010; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-29. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-households/

Download source table CSV All rankings