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Not U.S. citizens: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Not U.S. citizens. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Citizenship of the foreign-born 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: 46.1 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 50.7 %
RI 42 %
DE 50.2 %
CT 42.8 %
NJ 41.8 %
MD 43.5 %
MA 46.4 %
VT 29.7 %
NH 39 %

Lowest: 29.7 to 42.4 %
Group 2: 42.4 to 47.1 %
Group 3: 47.1 to 51.1 %
Group 4: 51.1 to 56.3 %
Highest: 56.3 to 62.3 %

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.


1	Arkansas	62.3
2	Louisiana	59.7
3	Utah	59.1
4	Kansas	58.8
5	Alabama	58.3
5	Kentucky	58.3
7	Tennessee	57.3
8	Iowa	57.2
9	Mississippi	56.8
10	Indiana	56.7
11	North Carolina	56.3
12	Nebraska	56.1
13	South Dakota	55.9
14	South Carolina	55.8
15	Wyoming	55.3
16	Oklahoma	54.6
16	Texas	54.6
18	New Mexico	54.4
19	North Dakota	52.9
20	Wisconsin	52.5
21	Colorado	51.1
22	District of Columbia	50.7
23	Delaware	50.2
24	Idaho	49.9
25	Georgia	49.2
26	Oregon	48.8
27	Washington	48.5
28	Arizona	48.3
29	Ohio	48.1
30	Maine	47.3
31	Missouri	47.1
32	Massachusetts	46.4
33	Illinois	46
34	Nevada	43.9
35	Maryland	43.5
35	West Virginia	43.5
37	Montana	43.4
38	Michigan	43.2
39	California	42.8
39	Connecticut	42.8
41	Pennsylvania	42.4
42	Florida	42.2
43	Rhode Island	42
44	New Jersey	41.8
45	Virginia	41
46	Minnesota	40.4
47	New York	39.4
48	New Hampshire	39
49	Alaska	37.2
50	Hawaii	35.5
51	Vermont	29.7

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table DP02: Selected Social Characteristics in the United States. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by not U.S. citizens (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP02; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-29. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-not-u-s-citizens/

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