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People below twice the poverty line: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of people below twice the poverty line (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Income relative to the poverty line by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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

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National value: 26.5 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 24.5 %
RI 22.2 %
DE 21.3 %
CT 21.1 %
NJ 20.2 %
MD 20.2 %
MA 19.9 %
VT 22.4 %
NH 15.3 %

Lowest: 15.3 to 21.8 %
Group 2: 21.8 to 25.3 %
Group 3: 25.3 to 27 %
Group 4: 27 to 29.4 %
Highest: 29.4 to 38.6 %

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. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Mississippi	38.6
2	Louisiana	36.1
3	West Virginia	35.1
4	Arkansas	34.8
5	New Mexico	34.2
6	Kentucky	34.1
7	Oklahoma	33.3
8	Alabama	31.6
9	South Carolina	29.7
10	Texas	29.6
11	Tennessee	29.4
12	Indiana	28.4
13	North Carolina	28.1
14	Missouri	28
15	New York	27.8
16	Georgia	27.7
16	Michigan	27.7
18	Ohio	27.6
19	Arizona	27.3
20	Montana	27
20	Nevada	27
22	Alaska	26.7
22	Florida	26.7
24	Iowa	26.2
24	Kansas	26.2
26	South Dakota	26
27	Wyoming	25.9
28	Oregon	25.8
29	California	25.7
30	Idaho	25.5
31	Pennsylvania	25.3
32	District of Columbia	24.5
33	Illinois	24.4
34	Wisconsin	24
35	Nebraska	23.9
36	Maine	23.5
37	North Dakota	22.8
38	Vermont	22.4
39	Rhode Island	22.2
40	Washington	21.9
41	Utah	21.8
42	Delaware	21.3
43	Connecticut	21.1
43	Virginia	21.1
45	Hawaii	20.6
45	Minnesota	20.6
47	Colorado	20.2
47	Maryland	20.2
47	New Jersey	20.2
50	Massachusetts	19.9
51	New Hampshire	15.3

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table C17002: Ratio of income to poverty level in the past 12 months. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of people below twice the poverty line (%, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table C17002: Ratio of income to poverty level in the past 12 months; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-people-below-twice-the-poverty-line/

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