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Lacking complete plumbing: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Lacking complete plumbing. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Homes lacking plumbing, kitchen or telephone service by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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

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National value: 0.4 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 0.5 %
RI 0.1 %
DE 0.2 %
CT 0.2 %
NJ 0.4 %
MD 0.3 %
MA 0.4 %
VT 0.3 %
NH 0.5 %

Lowest: 0.1 to 0.3 %
Group 2: 0.3 to 0.4 %
Group 3: 0.4 to 0.4 %
Group 4: 0.4 to 0.5 %
Highest: 0.5 to 3.5 %

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	Alaska	3.5
2	New Mexico	1
3	Montana	0.7
4	Arizona	0.6
4	Louisiana	0.6
4	West Virginia	0.6
7	Arkansas	0.5
7	California	0.5
7	District of Columbia	0.5
7	Kentucky	0.5
7	Maine	0.5
7	Mississippi	0.5
7	New Hampshire	0.5
7	Oklahoma	0.5
7	Oregon	0.5
7	South Dakota	0.5
7	Texas	0.5
7	Wyoming	0.5
19	Alabama	0.4
19	Florida	0.4
19	Georgia	0.4
19	Hawaii	0.4
19	Illinois	0.4
19	Indiana	0.4
19	Iowa	0.4
19	Kansas	0.4
19	Massachusetts	0.4
19	Minnesota	0.4
19	Missouri	0.4
19	Nebraska	0.4
19	New Jersey	0.4
19	New York	0.4
19	North Carolina	0.4
19	Ohio	0.4
19	Tennessee	0.4
19	Washington	0.4
19	Wisconsin	0.4
38	Colorado	0.3
38	Idaho	0.3
38	Maryland	0.3
38	Michigan	0.3
38	Nevada	0.3
38	Pennsylvania	0.3
38	South Carolina	0.3
38	Utah	0.3
38	Vermont	0.3
38	Virginia	0.3
48	Connecticut	0.2
48	Delaware	0.2
48	North Dakota	0.2
51	Rhode Island	0.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table DP04: Selected Housing Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by lacking complete plumbing (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP04; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-lacking-complete-plumbing/

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