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Unemployment benefits per person: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Unemployment benefits per person ($, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Safety-net and veterans' benefits per person 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: 108 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 205 $
RI 201 $
DE 79 $
CT 160 $
NJ 293 $
MD 85 $
MA 281 $
VT 93 $
NH 52 $

Lowest: 15 to 39 $
Group 2: 39 to 59 $
Group 3: 59 to 96 $
Group 4: 96 to 159 $
Highest: 159 to 293 $

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: BEA's state estimates for 2025 are preliminary and are revised each year.


1	New Jersey	293
2	Massachusetts	281
3	Washington	255
4	Minnesota	220
5	Oregon	215
6	District of Columbia	205
7	Rhode Island	201
8	Illinois	174
9	Connecticut	160
9	Nevada	160
11	California	159
12	New York	153
13	Pennsylvania	146
14	Colorado	138
15	North Dakota	123
16	Montana	122
17	Hawaii	109
18	Texas	104
19	Maine	101
19	New Mexico	101
21	Iowa	96
21	Michigan	96
23	Vermont	93
24	Utah	92
25	Wyoming	90
26	Ohio	89
27	Maryland	85
27	West Virginia	85
29	Delaware	79
30	Alaska	76
31	Idaho	59
32	Wisconsin	55
33	Nebraska	53
34	New Hampshire	52
35	Kansas	51
35	Kentucky	51
37	Arizona	49
38	Oklahoma	48
39	Missouri	45
40	Indiana	40
41	South Dakota	39
42	Virginia	38
43	Georgia	32
43	Tennessee	32
45	North Carolina	31
46	South Carolina	30
47	Louisiana	28
48	Arkansas	26
49	Mississippi	24
50	Alabama	17
51	Florida	15

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts, Table SAINC35: Personal current transfer receipts
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts, Table SAINC1: Personal income summary: personal income, population, per capita personal income. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by unemployment benefits per person ($, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Data, SAINC35 Personal current transfer receipts and SAINC1 Personal income, population, per capita personal income (annual, by state); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-unemployment-benefits-per-person/

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