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Children living with a single mother: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of children living with a single mother (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Children's living arrangements 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: 24.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 38.3 %
RI 31.8 %
DE 23.8 %
CT 25.3 %
NJ 20.8 %
MD 25.9 %
MA 23.6 %
VT 19.2 %
NH 19.5 %

Lowest: 13.2 to 19.5 %
Group 2: 19.5 to 22.8 %
Group 3: 22.8 to 24.5 %
Group 4: 24.5 to 26.2 %
Highest: 26.2 to 38.3 %

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. 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	38.3
2	Mississippi	34.9
3	Louisiana	34.8
4	Rhode Island	31.8
5	Alabama	30.5
6	Georgia	30.4
7	South Carolina	29.1
8	New Mexico	28.1
9	Arkansas	27.4
10	Florida	26.2
10	New York	26.2
12	Maryland	25.9
13	Arizona	25.4
13	North Carolina	25.4
15	Connecticut	25.3
16	Ohio	25.2
17	Nevada	25
18	Illinois	24.6
18	Michigan	24.6
18	Pennsylvania	24.6
21	Oklahoma	24.5
21	Texas	24.5
23	Tennessee	24.2
24	Kentucky	23.9
25	Delaware	23.8
26	Indiana	23.7
27	California	23.6
27	Massachusetts	23.6
29	Alaska	23
30	Oregon	22.9
31	Missouri	22.8
32	South Dakota	22.5
32	West Virginia	22.5
34	Wisconsin	21.6
34	Wyoming	21.6
36	Hawaii	21.4
37	Virginia	21.3
38	New Jersey	20.8
39	Washington	20.4
40	Kansas	19.6
41	New Hampshire	19.5
42	Vermont	19.2
43	Iowa	18.8
44	Maine	18.6
44	Minnesota	18.6
46	Nebraska	18.2
47	Colorado	18.1
48	Montana	16.4
49	North Dakota	15.3
50	Utah	14.8
51	Idaho	13.2

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S0901: Children Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of children living with a single mother (%, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S0901; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-children-living-with-a-single-mother/

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