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Public transportation: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Public transportation. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Commuting to work 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: 3.8 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 26.9 %
RI 2.7 %
DE 1.7 %
CT 4.2 %
NJ 9.9 %
MD 5.5 %
MA 8.4 %
VT 0.8 %
NH 0.5 %

Lowest: 0.2 to 0.5 %
Group 2: 0.5 to 0.8 %
Group 3: 0.8 to 1.2 %
Group 4: 1.2 to 3.4 %
Highest: 3.4 to 26.9 %

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	District of Columbia	26.9
2	New York	25.3
3	New Jersey	9.9
4	Massachusetts	8.4
5	Illinois	7.4
6	Maryland	5.5
7	Washington	5
8	Pennsylvania	4.3
9	Connecticut	4.2
10	Hawaii	4
11	California	3.4
12	Virginia	3.2
13	Oregon	2.8
14	Rhode Island	2.7
15	Nevada	2.4
16	Minnesota	1.9
16	Utah	1.9
18	Delaware	1.7
19	Colorado	1.5
20	Florida	1.2
20	Wisconsin	1.2
22	Georgia	1.1
23	Arizona	1
23	Ohio	1
25	Iowa	0.9
25	Louisiana	0.9
25	Michigan	0.9
25	Texas	0.9
29	Maine	0.8
29	Missouri	0.8
29	Montana	0.8
29	Vermont	0.8
29	West Virginia	0.8
34	Alaska	0.7
34	New Mexico	0.7
34	North Carolina	0.7
37	Indiana	0.6
37	Kentucky	0.6
37	Nebraska	0.6
37	Wyoming	0.6
41	Idaho	0.5
41	Kansas	0.5
41	New Hampshire	0.5
41	South Carolina	0.5
41	Tennessee	0.5
46	Alabama	0.3
46	Mississippi	0.3
46	North Dakota	0.3
49	Arkansas	0.2
49	Oklahoma	0.2
49	South Dakota	0.2

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S0801: Commuting Characteristics by Sex. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by public transportation (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S0801; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-29. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-public-transportation/

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