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Poverty rate, White non-Hispanic: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Poverty rate, White non-Hispanic (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Poverty rate by race and Hispanic origin by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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Data last updated
2026-11-09
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National value: 9 (United States).

Washington: 8.7Idaho: 9Montana: 9.4North Dakota: 8.1Minnesota: 7.1Michigan: 10Ohio: 9.9Pennsylvania: 8.4New York: 9.4Vermont: 8.2New Hampshire: 5.7Maine: 9.2Arizona: 8.9California: 9.1New Mexico: 11.2Texas: 8.3Louisiana: 11.8Mississippi: 10.9Alabama: 10.4Florida: 9.2Georgia: 8.7South Carolina: 9.4North Carolina: 8.7Virginia: 7.5District of Columbia: 4.1Maryland: 6.1Delaware: 7.3New Jersey: 5.8Connecticut: 6.5Rhode Island: 7.4Massachusetts: 7Oregon: 10.8Utah: 7.5Wyoming: 8.4Nevada: 9.4Colorado: 7.6South Dakota: 8.3Nebraska: 7.7Kansas: 8.6Oklahoma: 12.1Iowa: 9.2Missouri: 9.8Wisconsin: 8.2Illinois: 7.9Kentucky: 14.9Arkansas: 12Tennessee: 10.1West Virginia: 15.7Indiana: 9.6Alaska: 7Hawaii: 8.6

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 4.1 to 7.5 %
  • Group 2: 7.5 to 8.4 %
  • Group 3: 8.4 to 9.2 %
  • Group 4: 9.2 to 10 %
  • Highest: 10 to 15.7 %
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: Rates for smaller groups rest on small ACS samples and have wide margins of error; groups the Census Bureau does not publish for a state are left out.

1West Virginia15.7
2Kentucky14.9
3Oklahoma12.1
4Arkansas12
5Louisiana11.8
6New Mexico11.2
7Mississippi10.9
8Oregon10.8
9Alabama10.4
10Tennessee10.1
11Michigan10
12Ohio9.9
13Missouri9.8
14Indiana9.6
15Montana9.4
15Nevada9.4
15New York9.4
15South Carolina9.4
19Florida9.2
19Iowa9.2
19Maine9.2
22California9.1
23Idaho9
24Arizona8.9
25Georgia8.7
25North Carolina8.7
25Washington8.7
28Hawaii8.6
28Kansas8.6
30Pennsylvania8.4
30Wyoming8.4
32South Dakota8.3
32Texas8.3
34Vermont8.2
34Wisconsin8.2
36North Dakota8.1
37Illinois7.9
38Nebraska7.7
39Colorado7.6
40Utah7.5
40Virginia7.5
42Rhode Island7.4
43Delaware7.3
44Minnesota7.1
45Alaska7
45Massachusetts7
47Connecticut6.5
48Maryland6.1
49New Jersey5.8
50New Hampshire5.7
51District of Columbia4.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1701: Poverty Status in the Past 12 Months. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by poverty rate, White non-Hispanic (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1701; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-poverty-rate-white-non-hispanic/

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