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Women's share of healthcare practitioner jobs: U.S. states ranked

Measure: Women's share of healthcare practitioner and technical jobs (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Women's share of jobs by occupation group 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: 75.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 72.1 %
RI 70.3 %
DE 85 %
CT 77.6 %
NJ 75.4 %
MD 77.7 %
MA 75.3 %
VT 79.8 %
NH 78.5 %

Lowest: 66.9 to 72.8 %
Group 2: 72.8 to 76.1 %
Group 3: 76.1 to 77.6 %
Group 4: 77.6 to 78.5 %
Highest: 78.5 to 85 %

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	Delaware	85
2	Iowa	81.9
3	South Dakota	81.7
4	Nebraska	80.6
5	Indiana	80.5
6	Wisconsin	80.1
7	Louisiana	79.8
7	Vermont	79.8
9	North Carolina	79.1
10	West Virginia	78.9
11	New Hampshire	78.5
12	Alabama	78.4
12	North Dakota	78.4
14	Mississippi	78.3
15	South Carolina	78.1
16	Arkansas	77.8
16	Kansas	77.8
16	Michigan	77.8
19	Maryland	77.7
19	Ohio	77.7
21	Connecticut	77.6
21	New Mexico	77.6
21	Tennessee	77.6
24	Virginia	77.2
25	Missouri	77.1
26	Georgia	76.7
26	Illinois	76.7
28	Maine	76.6
29	Minnesota	76.4
30	Wyoming	76.2
31	Pennsylvania	76.1
32	Kentucky	76
33	Montana	75.9
34	New Jersey	75.4
35	Massachusetts	75.3
36	Oklahoma	75.2
37	Colorado	74.4
37	Florida	74.4
39	Oregon	74.1
40	Texas	73.4
41	New York	72.8
42	Washington	72.4
43	District of Columbia	72.1
44	Idaho	71.9
45	Hawaii	70.8
46	Rhode Island	70.3
47	Arizona	70.1
48	California	69.8
49	Utah	69.7
50	Alaska	68.3
51	Nevada	66.9

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S2401: Occupation by Sex for the Civilian Employed Population 16 Years and Over. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by women's share of healthcare practitioner and technical jobs (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S2401; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-womens-share-of-healthcare-practitioner-and-technical-jobs/

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