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With Social Security: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: With Social Security. 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: 32.9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 18.8 %
RI 36 %
DE 39.5 %
CT 34.4 %
NJ 32.9 %
MD 30.3 %
MA 32.3 %
VT 37.4 %
NH 38 %

Lowest: 18.8 to 31.1 %
Group 2: 31.1 to 32.9 %
Group 3: 32.9 to 34.4 %
Group 4: 34.4 to 36.6 %
Highest: 36.6 to 41.3 %

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	41.3
2	Hawaii	40.8
3	Delaware	39.5
4	Maine	39.1
5	New Hampshire	38
6	Florida	37.9
7	New Mexico	37.7
8	Montana	37.4
8	Vermont	37.4
10	Alabama	36.6
10	Pennsylvania	36.6
12	Arkansas	36.5
12	South Carolina	36.5
14	Michigan	36.4
15	Mississippi	36.3
16	Rhode Island	36
17	Kentucky	35.4
18	Arizona	35.3
19	Wisconsin	34.6
20	Connecticut	34.4
20	Louisiana	34.4
20	Oregon	34.4
23	Missouri	34.3
24	Idaho	33.9
25	Ohio	33.7
26	Oklahoma	33.6
27	Tennessee	33.4
28	North Carolina	33.2
29	Indiana	33
29	New York	33
31	New Jersey	32.9
32	Iowa	32.8
33	Kansas	32.4
34	Massachusetts	32.3
34	Wyoming	32.3
36	Nevada	31.9
37	Virginia	31.8
38	South Dakota	31.4
39	Illinois	31.3
39	Minnesota	31.3
41	Georgia	31.1
42	California	30.6
43	Maryland	30.3
44	Washington	30.2
45	Nebraska	30
46	North Dakota	28.7
47	Alaska	27.3
48	Texas	27.2
49	Colorado	27
50	Utah	24.8
51	District of Columbia	18.8

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 Social Security (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-social-security/

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