QuadranacA North American Statistical Almanac

Home › Rankings

Poverty rate of veterans: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Poverty rate of veterans (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Veterans' education, work, poverty and disability by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence
Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated
2026-11-09
Download full table CSVSource: U.S. Census Bureau (opens in a new tab)

National value: 7.5 (United States).

Washington: 6.5Idaho: 8.7Montana: 7.5North Dakota: 9Minnesota: 6Michigan: 8.8Ohio: 7.7Pennsylvania: 6.6New York: 8.5Vermont: 8.2New Hampshire: 4.5Maine: 6.7Arizona: 7.5California: 7.7New Mexico: 8.6Texas: 7.7Louisiana: 8.1Mississippi: 10.2Alabama: 8.1Florida: 7.7Georgia: 8.9South Carolina: 8.1North Carolina: 7.3Virginia: 5.9District of Columbia: 11Maryland: 5.3Delaware: 8.7New Jersey: 7.2Connecticut: 5.7Rhode Island: 7.2Massachusetts: 6.9Oregon: 7.5Utah: 7Wyoming: 5.1Nevada: 8.2Colorado: 6.2South Dakota: 6.6Nebraska: 7.7Kansas: 6.8Oklahoma: 8.9Iowa: 7.3Missouri: 8Wisconsin: 6.8Illinois: 7.5Kentucky: 8.8Arkansas: 10.3Tennessee: 8West Virginia: 7.8Indiana: 6.6Alaska: 6.9Hawaii: 4.3

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 4.3 to 6.6 %
  • Group 2: 6.6 to 7.3 %
  • Group 3: 7.3 to 7.7 %
  • Group 4: 7.7 to 8.6 %
  • Highest: 8.6 to 11 %
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: Veterans are older on average than nonveterans; small-state estimates have wide margins of error.

1District of Columbia11
2Arkansas10.3
3Mississippi10.2
4North Dakota9
5Georgia8.9
5Oklahoma8.9
7Kentucky8.8
7Michigan8.8
9Delaware8.7
9Idaho8.7
11New Mexico8.6
12New York8.5
13Nevada8.2
13Vermont8.2
15Alabama8.1
15Louisiana8.1
15South Carolina8.1
18Missouri8
18Tennessee8
20West Virginia7.8
21California7.7
21Florida7.7
21Nebraska7.7
21Ohio7.7
21Texas7.7
26Arizona7.5
26Illinois7.5
26Montana7.5
26Oregon7.5
30Iowa7.3
30North Carolina7.3
32New Jersey7.2
32Rhode Island7.2
34Utah7
35Alaska6.9
35Massachusetts6.9
37Kansas6.8
37Wisconsin6.8
39Maine6.7
40Indiana6.6
40Pennsylvania6.6
40South Dakota6.6
43Washington6.5
44Colorado6.2
45Minnesota6
46Virginia5.9
47Connecticut5.7
48Maryland5.3
49Wyoming5.1
50New Hampshire4.5
51Hawaii4.3

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S2101: Veteran Status. Reference period: 2025.

Cite this ranking

U.S. states ranked by poverty rate of veterans (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S2101; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-poverty-rate-of-veterans/

Download source table CSV All rankings