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Population density per square mile: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Population density per square mile (derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Land area, water area and population density by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 96.7 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 11,347.5
RI 1,078
DE 544
CT 761.7
NJ 1,298.2
MD 645.2
MA 917.1
VT 69.9
NH 158.1

Lowest: 1.3 to 42.8
Group 2: 42.8 to 73.2
Group 3: 73.2 to 177.4
Group 4: 177.4 to 291.3
Highest: 291.3 to 11,347.5

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. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.


1	District of Columbia	11,347.5
2	New Jersey	1,298.2
3	Rhode Island	1,078
4	Massachusetts	917.1
5	Connecticut	761.7
6	Maryland	645.2
7	Delaware	544
8	Florida	437.3
9	New York	424.5
10	Pennsylvania	291.9
11	Ohio	291.3
12	California	252.5
13	North Carolina	230.3
14	Illinois	229.1
15	Virginia	224.9
16	Hawaii	223.1
17	Georgia	195.8
18	Indiana	194.6
19	South Carolina	185.3
20	Michigan	178.9
21	Tennessee	177.4
22	New Hampshire	158.1
23	Texas	121.4
24	Washington	120.4
25	Kentucky	116.7
26	Wisconsin	110.3
27	Louisiana	106.8
28	Alabama	102.5
29	Missouri	91.2
30	West Virginia	73.5
31	Minnesota	73.2
32	Vermont	69.9
33	Arizona	67.1
34	Mississippi	63
35	Oklahoma	60.1
36	Arkansas	59.9
37	Colorado	58
37	Iowa	58
39	Maine	45.9
40	Oregon	44.5
41	Utah	42.8
42	Kansas	36.4
43	Nevada	29.9
44	Nebraska	26.3
45	Idaho	24.6
46	New Mexico	17.5
47	South Dakota	12.3
48	North Dakota	11.6
49	Montana	7.9
50	Wyoming	6.1
51	Alaska	1.3

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb, TIGERweb State_County MapServer layer 0 (States): AREALAND and AREAWATER
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2025 resident population (denominator). Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by population density per square mile (derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb (with Census population), TIGERweb State_County MapServer layer 0 (States): AREALAND and AREAWATER; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-population-density-per-square-mile/

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