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Medicaid/means-tested: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Medicaid/means-tested. 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: 16.6 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 21.8 %
RI 16.8 %
DE 13.4 %
CT 19.1 %
NJ 14.7 %
MD 15.5 %
MA 16.7 %
VT 17 %
NH 11 %

Lowest: 8.1 to 13.2 %
Group 2: 13.2 to 14.7 %
Group 3: 14.7 to 16.7 %
Group 4: 16.7 to 19.2 %
Highest: 19.2 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. Values are as published in the source table.


1	New Mexico	26.3
2	New York	25.7
3	Louisiana	25.3
4	Kentucky	22.9
5	California	22.1
6	District of Columbia	21.8
7	West Virginia	21.3
8	Oregon	20.3
9	Alaska	19.9
10	Arkansas	19.4
11	Mississippi	19.2
12	Connecticut	19.1
13	Oklahoma	18.5
14	Michigan	17.9
15	North Carolina	17.6
16	Indiana	17.4
17	Hawaii	17.2
17	Ohio	17.2
19	Vermont	17
20	Rhode Island	16.8
21	Massachusetts	16.7
22	Pennsylvania	16.4
22	Washington	16.4
24	Nevada	16
25	Illinois	15.8
25	Iowa	15.8
27	Maine	15.5
27	Maryland	15.5
29	Alabama	15.3
30	Missouri	14.8
31	New Jersey	14.7
31	South Carolina	14.7
33	Arizona	14.4
33	Tennessee	14.4
35	Montana	14.2
36	Colorado	13.7
37	Idaho	13.6
38	Delaware	13.4
39	Georgia	13.3
39	Wisconsin	13.3
41	Virginia	13.2
42	Minnesota	13.1
43	South Dakota	12.7
44	Florida	12.2
45	Nebraska	11.9
46	Texas	11.5
47	New Hampshire	11
48	Kansas	10.5
49	Wyoming	9.8
50	North Dakota	8.7
51	Utah	8.1

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.

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U.S. states ranked by medicaid/means-tested (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-medicaid-means-tested/

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