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Women 25+ with a high school diploma (%): U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of women 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Educational attainment of women and men 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: 91.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 92.5 %
RI 90.9 %
DE 94 %
CT 92.8 %
NJ 91.7 %
MD 92.6 %
MA 92.9 %
VT 96.3 %
NH 96.2 %

Lowest: 86.5 to 90.9 %
Group 2: 90.9 to 92.4 %
Group 3: 92.4 to 93.1 %
Group 4: 93.1 to 94.4 %
Highest: 94.4 to 96.3 %

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	Vermont	96.3
2	New Hampshire	96.2
3	Maine	95.7
4	Wyoming	94.9
5	Alaska	94.8
5	Minnesota	94.8
5	Montana	94.8
8	North Dakota	94.7
8	Wisconsin	94.7
10	Colorado	94.6
11	Iowa	94.4
11	Nebraska	94.4
13	South Dakota	94.3
14	Delaware	94
14	Utah	94
16	Hawaii	93.5
17	Idaho	93.3
18	Kansas	93.2
18	Michigan	93.2
20	Ohio	93.1
20	Virginia	93.1
20	Washington	93.1
23	Oregon	93
23	Pennsylvania	93
25	Massachusetts	92.9
26	Connecticut	92.8
27	Missouri	92.7
28	Maryland	92.6
29	District of Columbia	92.5
29	Illinois	92.5
31	North Carolina	92.4
32	Florida	92
33	Arkansas	91.8
33	South Carolina	91.8
33	Tennessee	91.8
36	New Jersey	91.7
36	West Virginia	91.7
38	Georgia	91.6
38	Indiana	91.6
40	Oklahoma	91.2
41	Alabama	90.9
41	Arizona	90.9
41	Kentucky	90.9
41	Rhode Island	90.9
45	Nevada	90.2
46	Mississippi	90.1
47	Louisiana	89.9
48	New Mexico	89.4
49	New York	89.2
50	Texas	88.3
51	California	86.5

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1501: Educational Attainment. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of women 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1501; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-women-25-and-over-with-a-high-school-diploma-or-higher/

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