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Uninsured rate, Black residents: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Uninsured rate, Black residents (%). All 49 states and District of Columbia with data in Uninsured rate by race and Hispanic origin 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: 9.2 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 6.2 %
RI 3.8 %
DE 9.4 %
CT 7.6 %
NJ 8 %
MD 6.4 %
MA 3.6 %
VT 4.1 %
NH 7.5 %

Lowest: 3.4 to 6.5 %
Group 2: 6.5 to 8.8 %
Group 3: 8.8 to 10.2 %
Group 4: 10.2 to 12 %
Highest: 12 to 22 %

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: Rates for smaller groups rest on small ACS samples and have wide margins of error; groups the Census Bureau does not publish for a state are left out.


1	North Dakota	22
2	Utah	18.1
3	Idaho	17.8
4	Maine	16.1
5	South Dakota	16
6	Alaska	15.5
7	Texas	15.2
8	Iowa	12.4
8	Montana	12.4
10	West Virginia	12
11	Arizona	11.9
12	Florida	11.8
12	Georgia	11.8
14	Minnesota	11.6
15	Nevada	11.3
15	Oklahoma	11.3
17	Oregon	10.9
18	Kansas	10.4
18	Mississippi	10.4
20	Nebraska	10.2
21	South Carolina	10
22	Missouri	9.9
23	Tennessee	9.7
24	Alabama	9.5
24	Colorado	9.5
24	Indiana	9.5
27	Delaware	9.4
28	Ohio	9
29	Washington	8.8
29	Wisconsin	8.8
31	Illinois	8.7
32	Pennsylvania	8.5
33	New Jersey	8
34	Kentucky	7.9
35	Arkansas	7.7
36	Connecticut	7.6
37	New Hampshire	7.5
37	North Carolina	7.5
39	Louisiana	7.4
40	Virginia	6.5
41	Maryland	6.4
42	District of Columbia	6.2
43	Michigan	5.9
44	New Mexico	5.6
45	California	5.5
46	New York	4.8
47	Vermont	4.1
48	Rhode Island	3.8
49	Massachusetts	3.6
50	Hawaii	3.4

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S2701: Selected Characteristics of Health Insurance Coverage in the United States. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by uninsured rate, Black residents (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S2701; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-uninsured-rate-black-residents/

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