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Car, truck or van: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Car, truck or van. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Commuting to work by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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

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National value: 78.7 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 32.9 %
RI 79.4 %
DE 80.5 %
CT 78.9 %
NJ 71.9 %
MD 76.4 %
MA 70.2 %
VT 77.7 %
NH 81.3 %

Lowest: 32.9 to 77.7 %
Group 2: 77.7 to 80.4 %
Group 3: 80.4 to 82.7 %
Group 4: 82.7 to 85.7 %
Highest: 85.7 to 89.4 %

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	Mississippi	89.4
2	Alabama	88.6
3	North Dakota	88.2
4	Oklahoma	88.1
5	Louisiana	88
6	Arkansas	87.5
7	West Virginia	87.4
8	Nebraska	86.4
9	Kentucky	86.3
10	Indiana	85.8
11	Kansas	85.7
12	South Dakota	85.3
13	Iowa	85.1
13	New Mexico	85.1
15	South Carolina	84.7
16	Michigan	84.3
17	Tennessee	84.2
18	Missouri	84.1
19	Ohio	83.9
20	Wyoming	83.1
21	Texas	82.7
22	Nevada	82.6
22	Wisconsin	82.6
24	Idaho	82.3
25	New Hampshire	81.3
26	Georgia	80.9
26	North Carolina	80.9
28	Montana	80.7
29	Delaware	80.5
30	Hawaii	80.4
30	Maine	80.4
32	Alaska	80.2
33	Rhode Island	79.4
34	Florida	79.1
35	Connecticut	78.9
35	Utah	78.9
37	Arizona	78.8
38	Minnesota	78.7
38	Virginia	78.7
40	California	78.4
41	Vermont	77.7
42	Maryland	76.4
43	Pennsylvania	76.2
44	Oregon	75.8
45	Colorado	75.2
46	Illinois	74.7
47	Washington	74.4
48	New Jersey	71.9
49	Massachusetts	70.2
50	New York	54.4
51	District of Columbia	32.9

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S0801: Commuting Characteristics by Sex. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by car, truck or van (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S0801; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-29. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-car-truck-or-van/

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