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Women's share of law enforcement jobs: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Women's share of law enforcement 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: 19.9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 41.5 %
RI 6.3 %
DE 19.6 %
CT 18.3 %
NJ 16.7 %
MD 23.8 %
MA 14.8 %
VT 51.7 %
NH 23.6 %

Lowest: 3.1 to 14.5 %
Group 2: 14.5 to 17.5 %
Group 3: 17.5 to 19.7 %
Group 4: 19.7 to 23.9 %
Highest: 23.9 to 51.7 %

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	51.7
2	District of Columbia	41.5
3	Louisiana	32.4
4	Tennessee	30.6
5	South Carolina	27.7
6	North Dakota	27.2
7	South Dakota	26.9
8	Hawaii	24.9
9	Mississippi	24.8
10	Florida	24.3
11	Arkansas	23.9
11	Virginia	23.9
13	Maryland	23.8
14	New Hampshire	23.6
15	Georgia	23.2
16	Kansas	22.1
17	Nevada	21.8
17	North Carolina	21.8
19	Missouri	20
20	Colorado	19.9
21	New York	19.7
21	Oklahoma	19.7
21	Texas	19.7
24	Delaware	19.6
25	California	19.5
26	Arizona	19.3
27	Michigan	19.1
28	Connecticut	18.3
29	Washington	17.9
30	Kentucky	17.7
31	Ohio	17.5
32	Minnesota	17
33	Nebraska	16.8
34	New Jersey	16.7
35	Wisconsin	16.3
36	Illinois	16.1
37	Indiana	15.3
38	Oregon	15.1
39	New Mexico	14.9
40	Massachusetts	14.8
41	Pennsylvania	14.5
42	Utah	14.3
43	Alabama	13.8
44	Iowa	13
45	Alaska	12.7
46	Idaho	12.5
47	West Virginia	11.7
48	Montana	8.1
49	Rhode Island	6.3
50	Maine	3.2
51	Wyoming	3.1

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 law enforcement 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-law-enforcement-jobs/

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