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Social assistance share of health jobs: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Social assistance share of health and social assistance jobs (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Health care and social assistance jobs by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

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Data last updated
2026-11-10
Download full table CSVSource: U.S. Census Bureau (County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 62, 621, 622, 623, 624 and 00 (all sectors)) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator)) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 17 (United States).

Washington: 18.2Idaho: 15.8Montana: 15.2North Dakota: 15.6Minnesota: 21.1Michigan: 13Ohio: 14.3Pennsylvania: 20.8New York: 24.5Vermont: 20New Hampshire: 16.3Maine: 17.4Arizona: 17.4California: 16.6New Mexico: 23.7Texas: 16.8Louisiana: 16.7Mississippi: 17.2Alabama: 11.8Florida: 11.2Georgia: 14South Carolina: 15.9North Carolina: 14.8Virginia: 14.5District of Columbia: 23.1Maryland: 16.1Delaware: 15.8New Jersey: 16.5Connecticut: 19.7Rhode Island: 17Massachusetts: 16.5Oregon: 18.1Utah: 11Wyoming: 17.2Nevada: 16.8Colorado: 16.5South Dakota: 11.2Nebraska: 16.5Kansas: 14.2Oklahoma: 15.5Iowa: 15.8Missouri: 17.2Wisconsin: 17.2Illinois: 21.5Kentucky: 14.1Arkansas: 17.6Tennessee: 10.9West Virginia: 17.5Indiana: 15Alaska: 19.6Hawaii: 16.2

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 10.9 to 14.5 %
  • Group 2: 14.5 to 16.1 %
  • Group 3: 16.1 to 16.8 %
  • Group 4: 16.8 to 18.1 %
  • Highest: 18.1 to 24.5 %
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.

Note: County Business Patterns counts employer establishments only; states' values for small subsectors may be withheld (blank) to avoid disclosing individual businesses.

1New York24.5
2New Mexico23.7
3District of Columbia23.1
4Illinois21.5
5Minnesota21.1
6Pennsylvania20.8
7Vermont20
8Connecticut19.7
9Alaska19.6
10Washington18.2
11Oregon18.1
12Arkansas17.6
13West Virginia17.5
14Arizona17.4
14Maine17.4
16Mississippi17.2
16Missouri17.2
16Wisconsin17.2
16Wyoming17.2
20Rhode Island17
21Nevada16.8
21Texas16.8
23Louisiana16.7
24California16.6
25Colorado16.5
25Massachusetts16.5
25Nebraska16.5
25New Jersey16.5
29New Hampshire16.3
30Hawaii16.2
31Maryland16.1
32South Carolina15.9
33Delaware15.8
33Idaho15.8
33Iowa15.8
36North Dakota15.6
37Oklahoma15.5
38Montana15.2
39Indiana15
40North Carolina14.8
41Virginia14.5
42Ohio14.3
43Kansas14.2
44Kentucky14.1
45Georgia14
46Michigan13
47Alabama11.8
48Florida11.2
48South Dakota11.2
50Utah11
51Tennessee10.9

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 62, 621, 622, 623, 624 and 00 (all sectors)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator). Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by social assistance share of health and social assistance jobs (%, derived) (2023). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 sector 62 (health care and social assistance) and subsectors 621, 622, 623, 624; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-10. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-social-assistance-share-of-health-and-social-assistance-jobs/

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