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Medicare benefits per person: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Medicare benefits per person ($, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Government benefits per person by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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Data last updated
2026-11-11
Download full table CSVSource: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (Table SAINC35) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 3,510 (United States).

Washington: 2,828Idaho: 2,921Montana: 3,240North Dakota: 2,989Minnesota: 3,201Michigan: 3,881Ohio: 3,857Pennsylvania: 4,062New York: 3,764Vermont: 3,415New Hampshire: 3,664Maine: 4,150Arizona: 3,355California: 3,428New Mexico: 3,225Texas: 2,941Louisiana: 3,939Mississippi: 4,004Alabama: 3,847Florida: 4,314Georgia: 3,116South Carolina: 3,874North Carolina: 3,486Virginia: 3,001District of Columbia: 2,706Maryland: 3,373Delaware: 4,125New Jersey: 3,502Connecticut: 3,838Rhode Island: 3,643Massachusetts: 3,795Oregon: 3,399Utah: 2,096Wyoming: 3,322Nevada: 3,385Colorado: 2,717South Dakota: 3,339Nebraska: 3,250Kansas: 3,360Oklahoma: 3,599Iowa: 3,424Missouri: 3,794Wisconsin: 3,551Illinois: 3,368Kentucky: 3,764Arkansas: 3,697Tennessee: 3,613West Virginia: 4,421Indiana: 3,570Alaska: 2,471Hawaii: 3,124

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • DC 2,706 $
  • RI 3,643 $
  • DE 4,125 $
  • CT 3,838 $
  • NJ 3,502 $
  • MD 3,373 $
  • MA 3,795 $
  • VT 3,415 $
  • NH 3,664 $
  • Lowest: 2,096 to 3,124 $
  • Group 2: 3,124 to 3,373 $
  • Group 3: 3,373 to 3,599 $
  • Group 4: 3,599 to 3,847 $
  • Highest: 3,847 to 4,421 $
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.

Note: BEA's state estimates for 2025 are preliminary and are revised each year.

1West Virginia4,421
2Florida4,314
3Maine4,150
4Delaware4,125
5Pennsylvania4,062
6Mississippi4,004
7Louisiana3,939
8Michigan3,881
9South Carolina3,874
10Ohio3,857
11Alabama3,847
12Connecticut3,838
13Massachusetts3,795
14Missouri3,794
15Kentucky3,764
15New York3,764
17Arkansas3,697
18New Hampshire3,664
19Rhode Island3,643
20Tennessee3,613
21Oklahoma3,599
22Indiana3,570
23Wisconsin3,551
24New Jersey3,502
25North Carolina3,486
26California3,428
27Iowa3,424
28Vermont3,415
29Oregon3,399
30Nevada3,385
31Maryland3,373
32Illinois3,368
33Kansas3,360
34Arizona3,355
35South Dakota3,339
36Wyoming3,322
37Nebraska3,250
38Montana3,240
39New Mexico3,225
40Minnesota3,201
41Hawaii3,124
42Georgia3,116
43Virginia3,001
44North Dakota2,989
45Texas2,941
46Idaho2,921
47Washington2,828
48Colorado2,717
49District of Columbia2,706
50Alaska2,471
51Utah2,096

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts, Table SAINC35: Personal current transfer receipts
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts, Table SAINC1: Personal income summary: personal income, population, per capita personal income. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by Medicare benefits per person ($, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Data, SAINC35 Personal current transfer receipts and SAINC1 Personal income, population, per capita personal income (annual, by state); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-medicare-benefits-per-person/

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