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Women's employment-population ratio: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Women's employment-population ratio (ages 20 to 64, %). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Employment of women and men 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: 73.1 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 75 %
RI 76.4 %
DE 76 %
CT 76.2 %
NJ 76 %
MD 77.2 %
MA 77.1 %
VT 80.3 %
NH 79.1 %

Lowest: 65.6 to 70.5 %
Group 2: 70.5 to 72.8 %
Group 3: 72.8 to 74.6 %
Group 4: 74.6 to 76.8 %
Highest: 76.8 to 80.3 %

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	Vermont	80.3
2	Minnesota	80.1
3	Nebraska	79.8
4	Iowa	79.1
4	New Hampshire	79.1
6	North Dakota	78.4
7	Wisconsin	78.3
8	South Dakota	78.2
9	Maryland	77.2
10	Massachusetts	77.1
11	Maine	76.8
12	Colorado	76.5
13	Rhode Island	76.4
14	Connecticut	76.2
14	Kansas	76.2
16	Delaware	76
16	Montana	76
16	New Jersey	76
19	Pennsylvania	75.2
20	District of Columbia	75
21	Hawaii	74.6
21	Virginia	74.6
23	Missouri	74.5
23	Wyoming	74.5
25	Ohio	74.4
26	Illinois	74.3
27	Indiana	73.9
28	Oregon	73.8
29	Florida	73.4
30	New York	73.2
31	Utah	72.8
31	Washington	72.8
33	Georgia	72.5
34	North Carolina	72.4
35	Nevada	72.3
36	Michigan	72.1
37	South Carolina	71.5
38	Tennessee	71.4
39	Arizona	70.7
39	Texas	70.7
41	California	70.5
42	Idaho	70.3
43	Arkansas	70.2
44	Alaska	70.1
45	Louisiana	70
46	New Mexico	69
46	Oklahoma	69
48	Kentucky	68.9
49	Alabama	68.8
50	Mississippi	68.2
51	West Virginia	65.6

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S2301: Employment Status. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by women's employment-population ratio (ages 20 to 64, %) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S2301; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-womens-employment-population-ratio/

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