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Share of workers who drive alone to work: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of workers who drive alone to work (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in How workers get to work by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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

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National value: 69.8 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 28.3 %
RI 70.9 %
DE 73.1 %
CT 71.3 %
NJ 63.8 %
MD 68.2 %
MA 62.8 %
VT 69.3 %
NH 74.1 %

Lowest: 28.3 to 68.2 %
Group 2: 68.2 to 71.2 %
Group 3: 71.2 to 74.4 %
Group 4: 74.4 to 76.5 %
Highest: 76.5 to 80.1 %

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	Alabama	80.1
2	Mississippi	80
3	Louisiana	79.1
4	North Dakota	78.7
5	West Virginia	78.2
6	Oklahoma	77.7
7	Arkansas	77.1
8	Nebraska	77
9	South Dakota	76.8
10	Indiana	76.7
11	Iowa	76.5
11	Kansas	76.5
13	Ohio	75.8
14	Kentucky	75.5
14	Michigan	75.5
14	South Carolina	75.5
17	Tennessee	75.4
18	Missouri	75.3
19	Wisconsin	74.9
20	Wyoming	74.6
21	New Mexico	74.4
22	New Hampshire	74.1
23	Delaware	73.1
24	Montana	72.7
25	Texas	72.3
26	Maine	71.9
27	Idaho	71.8
27	North Carolina	71.8
29	Georgia	71.7
30	Connecticut	71.3
31	Minnesota	71.2
32	Rhode Island	70.9
33	Nevada	70.7
34	Virginia	70.6
35	Florida	69.9
36	Vermont	69.3
37	California	68.7
37	Utah	68.7
39	Arizona	68.4
40	Pennsylvania	68.3
41	Maryland	68.2
42	Oregon	67.3
43	Colorado	67
44	Alaska	66.6
45	Illinois	66.4
46	Hawaii	65.6
47	Washington	65.1
48	New Jersey	63.8
49	Massachusetts	62.8
50	New York	48.3
51	District of Columbia	28.3

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B08301: Means of transportation to work. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of workers who drive alone to work (%, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B08301: Means of transportation to work; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-workers-who-drive-alone-to-work/

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