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Workers employed in their home county: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of workers employed in their home county (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Where people work relative to home by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-14

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National value: 73.9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 79.5 %
RI 62.3 %
DE 79.8 %
CT 70.6 %
NJ 57.4 %
MD 58.4 %
MA 68.8 %
VT 78.7 %
NH 67.5 %

Lowest: 54.2 to 67.5 %
Group 2: 67.5 to 71.9 %
Group 3: 71.9 to 76.9 %
Group 4: 76.9 to 81.9 %
Highest: 81.9 to 98.6 %

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	Hawaii	98.6
2	Nevada	93.9
3	Arizona	93.7
4	Alaska	92.4
5	Wyoming	91.8
6	Montana	91.1
7	North Dakota	86.4
8	California	83.8
9	Washington	83.2
10	New Mexico	82.7
11	Utah	81.9
12	Florida	81.5
13	Oregon	80.2
14	Delaware	79.8
15	District of Columbia	79.5
16	South Dakota	78.7
16	Vermont	78.7
18	Maine	78.4
19	Idaho	78.1
20	Nebraska	77.6
21	Kansas	76.9
21	Texas	76.9
23	Illinois	75.8
24	Iowa	75
25	Arkansas	74.8
26	Oklahoma	74.4
27	Pennsylvania	72.8
28	Wisconsin	72.6
29	Tennessee	72.4
30	North Carolina	72.1
31	South Carolina	71.9
32	Alabama	71.7
33	Michigan	70.8
34	Connecticut	70.6
35	Colorado	70.4
36	Ohio	70.3
37	Louisiana	69.3
38	Massachusetts	68.8
39	Indiana	68.6
40	Kentucky	67.9
41	New Hampshire	67.5
42	New York	67.3
42	West Virginia	67.3
44	Missouri	66.9
45	Minnesota	66.8
46	Mississippi	63.8
47	Rhode Island	62.3
48	Georgia	61.1
49	Maryland	58.4
50	New Jersey	57.4
51	Virginia	54.2

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B08007: Sex of workers by place of work — state and county level. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of workers employed in their home county (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B08007: Sex of workers by place of work — state and county level; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-14. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-workers-employed-in-their-home-county/

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