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Any alcohol, past 30 days: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Any alcohol, past 30 days. All 49 states and District of Columbia with data in Smoking, drinking, obesity and exercise by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-29

Download full table CSV Source: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (opens in a new tab)

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 65.9 %
RI 57.9 %
DE 51.6 %
CT 57 %
NJ 55.2 %
MD 52.8 %
MA 58.6 %
VT 62 %
NH 60.3 %

Lowest: 32.4 to 47.2 %
Group 2: 47.2 to 51.3 %
Group 3: 51.3 to 53.9 %
Group 4: 53.9 to 57 %
Highest: 57 to 65.9 %

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	District of Columbia	65.9
2	Vermont	62
3	New Hampshire	60.3
4	Colorado	59.3
5	Montana	58.8
6	Massachusetts	58.6
7	Minnesota	58.1
8	Rhode Island	57.9
8	Wisconsin	57.9
10	Connecticut	57
11	Nebraska	56.1
11	North Dakota	56.1
13	Iowa	55.5
14	New Jersey	55.2
15	Maine	55.1
16	Oregon	54.9
17	Washington	54.7
18	South Dakota	54.5
19	Alaska	53.9
19	Illinois	53.9
21	Maryland	52.8
22	Florida	52.6
22	Ohio	52.6
24	Michigan	52.3
25	Pennsylvania	52.2
26	New York	52.1
27	Kansas	51.9
28	Delaware	51.6
29	Louisiana	51.4
30	California	51.3
30	Nevada	51.3
32	Virginia	51
33	South Carolina	50.6
33	Wyoming	50.6
35	Arizona	50.5
36	Missouri	49.9
37	Texas	49.6
38	Indiana	49.2
39	Georgia	48.7
40	New Mexico	47.2
41	Hawaii	46.7
42	North Carolina	46.4
43	Alabama	45.4
44	Idaho	45.2
45	Arkansas	41.9
46	Kentucky	41.8
47	Mississippi	41.3
48	Oklahoma	40.5
49	West Virginia	38.6
50	Utah	32.4

Source: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, BRFSS Prevalence Data (2011 to present), data.cdc.gov dataset dttw-5yxu. Reference period: 2024.

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U.S. states ranked by any alcohol, past 30 days (2024). Data: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), BRFSS Prevalence Data (2011 to present), data.cdc.gov dataset dttw-5yxu; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-29. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-any-alcohol-past-30-days/

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