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With a disability: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: With a disability. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Disability by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-29

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National value: 13.7 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 11.6 %
RI 14.1 %
DE 13.3 %
CT 12.6 %
NJ 11.1 %
MD 12.6 %
MA 12.5 %
VT 15.9 %
NH 13.5 %

Lowest: 10.9 to 12.6 %
Group 2: 12.6 to 13.5 %
Group 3: 13.5 to 14.6 %
Group 4: 14.6 to 15.7 %
Highest: 15.7 to 19 %

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.


1	West Virginia	19
2	Mississippi	18.8
3	Arkansas	18.2
4	Kentucky	18.1
5	Oklahoma	17.7
6	New Mexico	17.6
7	Louisiana	17.3
8	Alabama	16.7
9	Oregon	15.9
9	Vermont	15.9
11	Maine	15.7
12	Indiana	15.3
12	South Carolina	15.3
14	Missouri	15.2
15	Montana	15
16	Michigan	14.8
16	Tennessee	14.8
18	Ohio	14.7
19	Idaho	14.6
19	Pennsylvania	14.6
19	Wyoming	14.6
22	Arizona	14.5
22	Nevada	14.5
24	North Carolina	14.1
24	Rhode Island	14.1
26	Kansas	14
27	Washington	13.9
28	Florida	13.8
29	Alaska	13.6
30	Georgia	13.5
30	Iowa	13.5
30	New Hampshire	13.5
33	South Dakota	13.4
34	Delaware	13.3
35	New York	13.2
36	Hawaii	12.9
36	Wisconsin	12.9
38	Texas	12.8
39	Connecticut	12.6
39	Maryland	12.6
39	Virginia	12.6
42	Illinois	12.5
42	Massachusetts	12.5
44	California	12.3
45	Minnesota	12
45	North Dakota	12
47	Colorado	11.9
48	Nebraska	11.8
49	District of Columbia	11.6
50	New Jersey	11.1
51	Utah	10.9

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1810: Disability Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by with a disability (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1810; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-29. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-with-a-disability/

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