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Women among officers: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Women among officers. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Law enforcement employees by state (FBI), ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

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Data last updated
2026-11-03
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National value: 14.3 (United States).

Washington: 12.1Idaho: 7.9Montana: 8.7North Dakota: 12.2Minnesota: 12.9Michigan: 14.1Ohio: 12.2Pennsylvania: 10.8New York: 17.3Vermont: 11.9New Hampshire: 11.2Maine: 10.3Arizona: 11.6California: 14.3New Mexico: 12.4Texas: 15Louisiana: 21.2Mississippi: 12.1Alabama: 8.2Florida: 17.1Georgia: 17.6South Carolina: 16North Carolina: 13.6Virginia: 15.2District of Columbia: 25.2Maryland: 14.4Delaware: 13.2New Jersey: 11.9Connecticut: 13.4Rhode Island: 9.7Massachusetts: 11.3Oregon: 11.6Utah: 8.8Wyoming: 11Nevada: 12.3Colorado: 15.6South Dakota: 11.4Nebraska: 11.6Kansas: 12.8Oklahoma: 10.2Iowa: 9.6Missouri: 11.6Wisconsin: 14.3Illinois: 17Kentucky: 6.9Arkansas: 11.8Tennessee: 12.3West Virginia: 4.1Indiana: 8.6Alaska: 9.3Hawaii: 12

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 4.1 to 10.2 %
  • Group 2: 10.2 to 11.6 %
  • Group 3: 11.6 to 12.3 %
  • Group 4: 12.3 to 14.4 %
  • Highest: 14.4 to 25.2 %
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.

Caution against ranking: the FBI warns that rankings based on its Uniform Crime Reporting data “lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions”. Agency participation, reporting practices and local conditions vary, so differences between states partly reflect reporting rather than crime. Source: FBI, Caution Against Ranking (Hate Crime Statistics).

1District of Columbia25.2
2Louisiana21.2
3Georgia17.6
4New York17.3
5Florida17.1
6Illinois17
7South Carolina16
8Colorado15.6
9Virginia15.2
10Texas15
11Maryland14.4
12California14.3
12Wisconsin14.3
14Michigan14.1
15North Carolina13.6
16Connecticut13.4
17Delaware13.2
18Minnesota12.9
19Kansas12.8
20New Mexico12.4
21Nevada12.3
21Tennessee12.3
23North Dakota12.2
23Ohio12.2
25Mississippi12.1
25Washington12.1
27Hawaii12
28New Jersey11.9
28Vermont11.9
30Arkansas11.8
31Arizona11.6
31Missouri11.6
31Nebraska11.6
31Oregon11.6
35South Dakota11.4
36Massachusetts11.3
37New Hampshire11.2
38Wyoming11
39Pennsylvania10.8
40Maine10.3
41Oklahoma10.2
42Rhode Island9.7
43Iowa9.6
44Alaska9.3
45Utah8.8
46Montana8.7
47Indiana8.6
48Alabama8.2
49Idaho7.9
50Kentucky6.9
51West Virginia4.1

Source: FBI, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer API: Law Enforcement Employees (police employee data, LEOKA program), 2024 (retrieved 2026-11-03). Reference period: 2024.

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U.S. states ranked by women among officers (2024). Data: FBI, Crime Data Explorer API, police employee (LEOKA) data, 2024, retrieved 2026-11-03; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-women-among-officers/

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