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Hospitals' share of health jobs: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Hospitals' share of health and social assistance jobs (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Health care and social assistance jobs by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

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Data last updated
2026-11-10
Download full table CSVSource: U.S. Census Bureau (County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 62, 621, 622, 623, 624 and 00 (all sectors)) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator)) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 28.8 (United States).

Washington: 26.6Idaho: 27.1Montana: 33.1North Dakota: 32.2Minnesota: 25.1Michigan: 32Ohio: 33.1Pennsylvania: 27.2New York: 25.8Vermont: 29.6New Hampshire: 30.2Maine: 29.8Arizona: 24.4California: 26.4New Mexico: 30.7Texas: 26.8Louisiana: 34.6Mississippi: 36.6Alabama: 35.7Florida: 28.7Georgia: 31.8South Carolina: 30North Carolina: 29.1Virginia: 24.9District of Columbia: 40.3Maryland: 26.7Delaware: 31.8New Jersey: 26.8Connecticut: 19.1Rhode Island: 29Massachusetts: 33.7Oregon: 27.3Utah: 28.5Wyoming: 39.3Nevada: 29.3Colorado: 26.7South Dakota: 41.8Nebraska: 31.2Kansas: 31.4Oklahoma: 33.9Iowa: 32.7Missouri: 34.4Wisconsin: 28.1Illinois: 27.7Kentucky: 31.6Arkansas: 34.6Tennessee: 31.7West Virginia: 40.6Indiana: 28.2Alaska: 31.1Hawaii: 29.9

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 19.1 to 26.8 %
  • Group 2: 26.8 to 29.1 %
  • Group 3: 29.1 to 31.4 %
  • Group 4: 31.4 to 33.7 %
  • Highest: 33.7 to 41.8 %
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. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: County Business Patterns counts employer establishments only; states' values for small subsectors may be withheld (blank) to avoid disclosing individual businesses.

1South Dakota41.8
2West Virginia40.6
3District of Columbia40.3
4Wyoming39.3
5Mississippi36.6
6Alabama35.7
7Arkansas34.6
7Louisiana34.6
9Missouri34.4
10Oklahoma33.9
11Massachusetts33.7
12Montana33.1
12Ohio33.1
14Iowa32.7
15North Dakota32.2
16Michigan32
17Delaware31.8
17Georgia31.8
19Tennessee31.7
20Kentucky31.6
21Kansas31.4
22Nebraska31.2
23Alaska31.1
24New Mexico30.7
25New Hampshire30.2
26South Carolina30
27Hawaii29.9
28Maine29.8
29Vermont29.6
30Nevada29.3
31North Carolina29.1
32Rhode Island29
33Florida28.7
34Utah28.5
35Indiana28.2
36Wisconsin28.1
37Illinois27.7
38Oregon27.3
39Pennsylvania27.2
40Idaho27.1
41New Jersey26.8
41Texas26.8
43Colorado26.7
43Maryland26.7
45Washington26.6
46California26.4
47New York25.8
48Minnesota25.1
49Virginia24.9
50Arizona24.4
51Connecticut19.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 62, 621, 622, 623, 624 and 00 (all sectors)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator). Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by hospitals' share of health and social assistance jobs (%, derived) (2023). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 sector 62 (health care and social assistance) and subsectors 621, 622, 623, 624; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-10. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-hospitals-share-of-health-and-social-assistance-jobs/

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