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Poverty rate, Hispanic or Latino: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Poverty rate, Hispanic or Latino (%). 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: 14.8 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 8.8 %
RI 15.5 %
DE 18.7 %
CT 15 %
NJ 13.2 %
MD 11.7 %
MA 18.7 %
VT 16.7 %
NH 8.9 %

Lowest: 8.8 to 12.6 %
Group 2: 12.6 to 14.1 %
Group 3: 14.1 to 15.9 %
Group 4: 15.9 to 18.3 %
Highest: 18.3 to 25 %

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	South Dakota	25
2	Louisiana	22.1
3	Arkansas	21.2
4	New York	20.4
5	Pennsylvania	19.9
6	South Carolina	18.9
7	Delaware	18.7
7	Kentucky	18.7
7	Massachusetts	18.7
10	Ohio	18.6
11	Alabama	18.3
12	Indiana	18
12	Oklahoma	18
14	New Mexico	17.1
15	North Carolina	17
16	Iowa	16.7
16	Vermont	16.7
18	Tennessee	16.4
19	Wisconsin	16.3
20	Mississippi	15.9
20	Texas	15.9
22	Georgia	15.5
22	Rhode Island	15.5
24	Nebraska	15.4
25	Connecticut	15
25	North Dakota	15
27	Kansas	14.6
27	Washington	14.6
29	Arizona	14.5
29	Oregon	14.5
31	Illinois	14.1
31	Maine	14.1
33	Missouri	13.7
34	Hawaii	13.5
35	Wyoming	13.3
36	Alaska	13.2
36	New Jersey	13.2
38	California	13
39	Michigan	12.8
40	Colorado	12.7
41	Minnesota	12.6
42	Florida	12.2
43	Virginia	11.8
44	Idaho	11.7
44	Maryland	11.7
44	Montana	11.7
44	Nevada	11.7
48	Utah	11.1
49	West Virginia	9.6
50	New Hampshire	8.9
51	District of Columbia	8.8

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, Hispanic or Latino (%) (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-hispanic-or-latino/

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