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Poverty rate of single mothers with children: U.S. states ranked

Measure: Poverty rate of single mothers with children (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Family poverty rate by family type 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: 30.5 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 43.3 %
RI 27.2 %
DE 21.5 %
CT 24.6 %
NJ 21.2 %
MD 24.4 %
MA 25.5 %
VT 26.4 %
NH 21.8 %

Lowest: 21.2 to 26.2 %
Group 2: 26.2 to 28.7 %
Group 3: 28.7 to 31.9 %
Group 4: 31.9 to 33.6 %
Highest: 33.6 to 43.3 %

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: ACS estimates; rates for family types in small states have wide margins of error.


1	District of Columbia	43.3
2	Mississippi	43.2
3	Louisiana	43.1
4	Kentucky	41.1
5	West Virginia	40.7
6	Alabama	38.7
7	Oklahoma	38.5
8	Arkansas	37.7
9	New Mexico	36.5
10	Ohio	35.1
11	Kansas	33.6
11	South Dakota	33.6
13	Michigan	33.4
14	Tennessee	33.2
14	Texas	33.2
16	Indiana	33.1
17	Alaska	33
17	Montana	33
19	New York	32.5
20	North Dakota	32.4
21	South Carolina	31.9
22	North Carolina	31.2
23	Oregon	30.8
24	Idaho	30.7
25	Pennsylvania	30.6
26	Georgia	30.3
27	Wyoming	30
28	Maine	29.2
29	Illinois	29.1
30	Missouri	28.8
31	Wisconsin	28.7
32	Iowa	27.8
33	Virginia	27.7
34	Minnesota	27.5
35	Nevada	27.3
36	Rhode Island	27.2
37	Nebraska	27
37	Washington	27
39	California	26.6
40	Vermont	26.4
41	Florida	26.2
42	Utah	25.6
43	Massachusetts	25.5
44	Colorado	25.3
45	Connecticut	24.6
46	Arizona	24.4
46	Maryland	24.4
48	Hawaii	23.7
49	New Hampshire	21.8
50	Delaware	21.5
51	New Jersey	21.2

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1702: Poverty Status in the Past 12 Months of Families. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by poverty rate of single mothers with children (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1702; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-poverty-rate-of-single-mothers-with-children/

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