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Poverty rate, Asian: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Poverty rate, Asian (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Poverty rate by race and Hispanic origin 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: 9.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 7.6 %
RI 8.1 %
DE 6.5 %
CT 7.2 %
NJ 6.1 %
MD 9.6 %
MA 9.3 %
VT 9.2 %
NH 4.4 %

Lowest: 3.7 to 7.3 %
Group 2: 7.3 to 8.6 %
Group 3: 8.6 to 9.6 %
Group 4: 9.6 to 10.9 %
Highest: 10.9 to 19.5 %

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.

Note: Rates for smaller groups rest on small ACS samples and have wide margins of error; groups the Census Bureau does not publish for a state are left out.


1	Wyoming	19.5
2	Iowa	17.9
3	Louisiana	15.1
4	Mississippi	14.8
5	Missouri	13.8
6	New York	13.2
7	Wisconsin	12.5
8	Kansas	11.8
9	North Dakota	11.4
10	Ohio	11.1
11	Indiana	10.9
11	Utah	10.9
13	Oklahoma	10.7
14	Pennsylvania	10.5
15	Illinois	10
15	North Carolina	10
17	Maine	9.9
18	Alabama	9.8
18	Nebraska	9.8
20	Michigan	9.7
21	Maryland	9.6
22	South Carolina	9.5
23	Kentucky	9.4
24	Massachusetts	9.3
25	California	9.2
25	Vermont	9.2
27	Texas	9.1
28	Arizona	9
29	Arkansas	8.9
29	Minnesota	8.9
31	Alaska	8.6
32	West Virginia	8.5
33	Washington	8.2
34	Rhode Island	8.1
35	Georgia	7.9
35	Nevada	7.9
37	Florida	7.8
38	Idaho	7.7
39	District of Columbia	7.6
40	Oregon	7.4
41	Hawaii	7.3
42	Connecticut	7.2
42	Virginia	7.2
44	Colorado	7
45	New Mexico	6.8
46	Delaware	6.5
47	New Jersey	6.1
48	Tennessee	5.2
49	South Dakota	4.6
50	New Hampshire	4.4
51	Montana	3.7

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1701: Poverty Status in the Past 12 Months. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by poverty rate, Asian (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1701; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-poverty-rate-asian/

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