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

Measure: Poverty rate of working families (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Family poverty rate by family type by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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

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National value: 5.6 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 5.3 %
RI 4 %
DE 3.8 %
CT 3.9 %
NJ 4 %
MD 3.9 %
MA 4 %
VT 3.2 %
NH 2.3 %

Lowest: 2.3 to 4 %
Group 2: 4 to 5 %
Group 3: 5 to 5.4 %
Group 4: 5.4 to 6.4 %
Highest: 6.4 to 10.2 %

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: ACS estimates; rates for family types in small states have wide margins of error.


1	Mississippi	10.2
2	Louisiana	10.1
3	New Mexico	8.3
4	Arkansas	7.8
5	Oklahoma	7.7
6	Kentucky	7.6
7	Alabama	7.4
7	West Virginia	7.4
9	South Carolina	7.2
10	Texas	6.9
11	Georgia	6.4
12	New York	6.2
12	Ohio	6.2
14	Alaska	6.1
14	Indiana	6.1
16	Michigan	5.9
16	Tennessee	5.9
18	Nevada	5.8
19	North Carolina	5.7
19	Wyoming	5.7
21	Arizona	5.4
21	Illinois	5.4
21	Montana	5.4
21	Oregon	5.4
25	California	5.3
25	District of Columbia	5.3
25	Kansas	5.3
28	Idaho	5.2
28	Missouri	5.2
30	Pennsylvania	5.1
31	South Dakota	5
32	Iowa	4.9
33	Florida	4.8
33	Nebraska	4.8
35	Wisconsin	4.7
36	Hawaii	4.5
36	Utah	4.5
36	Virginia	4.5
39	Washington	4.4
40	Massachusetts	4
40	Minnesota	4
40	New Jersey	4
40	Rhode Island	4
44	Connecticut	3.9
44	Maryland	3.9
46	Delaware	3.8
46	Maine	3.8
48	North Dakota	3.7
49	Colorado	3.6
50	Vermont	3.2
51	New Hampshire	2.3

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1702: Poverty Status in the Past 12 Months of Families. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by poverty rate of working families (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1702; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-poverty-rate-of-working-families/

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