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With cash public assistance or SNAP: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: With cash public assistance or SNAP. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Households by source of income, by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-30

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National value: 12.2 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 14.1 %
RI 15.4 %
DE 8.4 %
CT 12.8 %
NJ 9.9 %
MD 11.3 %
MA 16.4 %
VT 10.7 %
NH 7 %

Lowest: 5.1 to 8.8 %
Group 2: 8.8 to 9.9 %
Group 3: 9.9 to 12.2 %
Group 4: 12.2 to 14.1 %
Highest: 14.1 to 19.9 %

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	New Mexico	19.9
2	Oregon	17.7
3	West Virginia	17.1
4	New York	17
5	Massachusetts	16.4
6	Rhode Island	15.4
7	Louisiana	15.3
8	Pennsylvania	15.2
9	California	14.8
10	Oklahoma	14.5
11	District of Columbia	14.1
12	Illinois	13.8
12	Kentucky	13.8
12	Michigan	13.8
15	Maine	13.6
16	Alabama	12.9
17	Connecticut	12.8
18	Nevada	12.3
19	Alaska	12.2
19	Hawaii	12.2
19	Washington	12.2
22	Ohio	12.1
23	Mississippi	11.9
24	Georgia	11.7
25	North Carolina	11.6
26	Florida	11.4
27	Maryland	11.3
27	Wisconsin	11.3
29	Vermont	10.7
30	Texas	10.3
31	Colorado	9.9
31	New Jersey	9.9
33	Arizona	9.8
33	Missouri	9.8
35	Virginia	9.6
36	Tennessee	9.4
37	South Carolina	9.2
38	Arkansas	9
38	Minnesota	9
40	Indiana	8.9
41	Iowa	8.8
42	South Dakota	8.7
43	Delaware	8.4
44	Idaho	8.3
45	Montana	8.1
45	Nebraska	8.1
47	New Hampshire	7
47	North Dakota	7
49	Kansas	6.4
50	Utah	6.3
51	Wyoming	5.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1902: Mean Income in the Past 12 Months. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by with cash public assistance or SNAP (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1902; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-30. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-with-cash-public-assistance-or-snap/

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