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Workers employed in another county: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of workers employed in another county (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Where people work relative to home by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-14

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National value: 22.7 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 0 %
RI 19.2 %
DE 6.4 %
CT 21.4 %
NJ 29.4 %
MD 27.3 %
MA 27.8 %
VT 16.2 %
NH 18.8 %

Lowest: 0 to 14 %
Group 2: 14 to 18.8 %
Group 3: 18.8 to 22.6 %
Group 4: 22.6 to 27.3 %
Highest: 27.3 to 39.3 %

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


1	Virginia	39.3
2	Georgia	36.5
3	Minnesota	31
4	New York	30.7
5	New Jersey	29.4
6	Colorado	28.5
6	Louisiana	28.5
8	Massachusetts	27.8
9	Michigan	27.5
10	Missouri	27.4
11	Maryland	27.3
11	Ohio	27.3
13	Mississippi	27.2
14	Indiana	26.2
15	North Carolina	25.6
16	Kentucky	25.5
17	Alabama	24.1
17	Tennessee	24.1
17	Wisconsin	24.1
20	Oklahoma	22.9
21	Pennsylvania	22.6
22	South Carolina	22.4
23	Texas	22.1
24	Arkansas	21.7
25	Connecticut	21.4
26	Illinois	20.9
27	Iowa	20.2
27	West Virginia	20.2
29	Nebraska	19.2
29	Rhode Island	19.2
31	New Hampshire	18.8
32	South Dakota	18.6
33	Oregon	18
34	Maine	17.9
35	Florida	17.2
36	Utah	17.1
37	Idaho	16.7
38	Vermont	16.2
39	Kansas	16.1
40	California	15.7
41	Washington	14
42	New Mexico	13.3
43	North Dakota	10.3
44	Montana	7.5
45	Alaska	6.6
46	Delaware	6.4
47	Wyoming	4.9
48	Arizona	4.7
49	Nevada	4.1
50	Hawaii	0.6
51	District of Columbia	0

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B08007: Sex of workers by place of work — state and county level. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of workers employed in another county (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B08007: Sex of workers by place of work — state and county level; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-14. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-workers-employed-in-another-county/

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