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No physical activity, past month: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: No physical activity, past month. All 49 states and District of Columbia with data in Smoking, drinking, obesity and exercise 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 13.9 %
RI 22.9 %
DE 25.2 %
CT 20.8 %
NJ 22.8 %
MD 19.5 %
MA 18.8 %
VT 16 %
NH 18.6 %

Lowest: 13.9 to 19.1 %
Group 2: 19.1 to 21.6 %
Group 3: 21.6 to 22.4 %
Group 4: 22.4 to 25 %
Highest: 25 to 30.6 %

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	Mississippi	30.6
2	West Virginia	28.7
3	Arkansas	28.5
4	Kentucky	28
5	Alabama	27.7
5	Oklahoma	27.7
7	Louisiana	27.6
8	Delaware	25.2
9	Texas	25.1
10	Florida	25
11	Indiana	24.6
11	Missouri	24.6
13	New York	24
14	Illinois	23.3
15	Nevada	23.2
16	Georgia	23
17	Rhode Island	22.9
18	New Jersey	22.8
19	Pennsylvania	22.7
20	Kansas	22.4
21	Ohio	22.2
22	Michigan	22
23	Virginia	21.9
24	Arizona	21.8
24	Iowa	21.8
24	South Carolina	21.8
27	New Mexico	21.7
27	North Dakota	21.7
27	Wisconsin	21.7
30	Nebraska	21.6
31	South Dakota	21.4
32	Hawaii	21.3
32	Maine	21.3
34	Wyoming	21
35	Connecticut	20.8
36	California	20.7
36	Idaho	20.7
38	North Carolina	20.2
39	Maryland	19.5
40	Montana	19.1
41	Oregon	19
42	Massachusetts	18.8
43	New Hampshire	18.6
44	Alaska	18.1
45	Minnesota	17.5
46	Washington	17.4
47	Utah	16.8
48	Vermont	16
49	Colorado	15.6
50	District of Columbia	13.9

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 no physical activity, past month (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-no-physical-activity-past-month/

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