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Industrial share of CO2 emissions: U.S. states ranked (2022)

Measure: Industrial share of CO2 emissions (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2022.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 19.5 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 0.9 %
RI 5.8 %
DE 28.8 %
CT 4.2 %
NJ 10 %
MD 5.4 %
MA 5.6 %
VT 7.7 %
NH 5.4 %

Lowest: 0.9 to 7.1 %
Group 2: 7.1 to 11.9 %
Group 3: 11.9 to 16.2 %
Group 4: 16.2 to 22.2 %
Highest: 22.2 to 56.3 %

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.

Note: Emissions are counted where fuel is burned, so states that generate electricity or refine fuel for others have high per-person figures. Data are for 2022, EIA's latest state series.


1	Louisiana	56.3
2	Alaska	51
3	Texas	34.5
4	North Dakota	31.3
5	Iowa	29.4
6	Delaware	28.8
7	Oklahoma	27.4
8	South Dakota	26.3
9	Indiana	25
10	Pennsylvania	23.7
11	Kansas	22.2
12	Wyoming	20.8
13	Minnesota	19.8
14	Nebraska	19.2
15	California	19.1
15	Illinois	19.1
17	New Mexico	18.8
18	Ohio	18.3
19	Mississippi	18.1
20	Alabama	16.5
21	Idaho	16.2
22	Montana	15.4
23	Washington	15.3
24	Tennessee	15.1
25	West Virginia	14.8
26	Colorado	13.9
27	Arkansas	13.2
27	Wisconsin	13.2
29	Kentucky	12.8
30	Oregon	12.4
31	Michigan	11.9
32	Virginia	11.6
33	Utah	11.1
34	Maine	10.4
35	South Carolina	10.1
36	Georgia	10
36	New Jersey	10
38	North Carolina	8.7
39	Vermont	7.7
40	Nevada	7.6
41	Missouri	7.1
42	Rhode Island	5.8
43	Arizona	5.7
44	Massachusetts	5.6
45	Maryland	5.4
45	New Hampshire	5.4
47	Hawaii	5.2
48	Florida	5.1
49	New York	4.7
50	Connecticut	4.2
51	District of Columbia	0.9

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Energy-Related CO2 Emission Data Tables, Tables 1, 3 and 4 (state energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, by sector, and per capita, 1970–2022). Reference period: 2022.

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U.S. states ranked by industrial share of CO2 emissions (%) (2022). Data: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Energy-Related CO2 Emission Data Tables, Tables 1, 3 and 4 (state energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, by sector, and per capita, 1970–2022); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-industrial-share-of-co2-emissions/

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