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Children living with married parents: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of children living with married parents (%, 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: 66.5 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 55.5 %
RI 59.9 %
DE 63.3 %
CT 66.5 %
NJ 71.1 %
MD 65.4 %
MA 68.7 %
VT 68.5 %
NH 70.8 %

Lowest: 55.5 to 63.3 %
Group 2: 63.3 to 66.4 %
Group 3: 66.4 to 67.9 %
Group 4: 67.9 to 70.3 %
Highest: 70.3 to 79.2 %

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	Idaho	79.2
2	Utah	78.8
3	Colorado	72.9
3	Minnesota	72.9
5	Montana	72.2
6	Nebraska	72
7	Kansas	71.6
8	New Jersey	71.1
9	New Hampshire	70.8
10	Iowa	70.4
11	North Dakota	70.3
11	Virginia	70.3
13	Washington	70.1
14	Maine	70
15	Hawaii	69.7
16	Wyoming	69.5
17	Wisconsin	68.9
18	Massachusetts	68.7
19	Vermont	68.5
20	Alaska	68
21	Missouri	67.9
22	Oregon	67.5
23	Tennessee	67.1
24	Texas	67
25	Kentucky	66.8
26	South Dakota	66.6
27	Connecticut	66.5
27	Pennsylvania	66.5
29	California	66.4
29	Illinois	66.4
29	West Virginia	66.4
32	Oklahoma	65.8
33	Michigan	65.6
33	North Carolina	65.6
35	Maryland	65.4
36	Indiana	65.2
36	New York	65.2
38	Ohio	64.9
39	Arizona	64.2
40	Florida	64
41	Delaware	63.3
42	Arkansas	63.2
43	Georgia	62
43	South Carolina	62
45	Alabama	61.5
46	Nevada	61.4
47	Rhode Island	59.9
48	New Mexico	59
49	Louisiana	55.7
50	District of Columbia	55.5
50	Mississippi	55.5

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 married parents (%, 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-married-parents/

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