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Urban share of population, 2020 Census: U.S. states ranked

Measure: Urban share of population, 2020 Census (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Urban and rural population by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2020.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 80 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 100 %
RI 91.1 %
DE 82.6 %
CT 86.3 %
NJ 93.8 %
MD 85.6 %
MA 91.3 %
VT 35.1 %
NH 58.3 %

Lowest: 35.1 to 61 %
Group 2: 61 to 69.5 %
Group 3: 69.5 to 76.3 %
Group 4: 76.3 to 86.9 %
Highest: 86.9 to 100 %

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: Based on the 2020 Census urban area criteria, which changed from 2010; urban shares are not directly comparable with older Census figures.


1	District of Columbia	100
2	California	94.2
3	Nevada	94.1
4	New Jersey	93.8
5	Florida	91.5
6	Massachusetts	91.3
7	Rhode Island	91.1
8	Utah	89.8
9	Arizona	89.3
10	New York	87.4
11	Illinois	86.9
12	Connecticut	86.3
13	Hawaii	86.1
14	Colorado	86
15	Maryland	85.6
16	Texas	83.7
17	Washington	83.4
18	Delaware	82.6
19	Oregon	80.5
20	Pennsylvania	76.5
21	Ohio	76.3
22	Virginia	75.6
23	New Mexico	74.5
24	Georgia	74.1
25	Michigan	73.5
26	Nebraska	73
27	Kansas	72.3
28	Minnesota	71.9
29	Louisiana	71.5
30	Indiana	71.2
31	Missouri	69.5
32	Idaho	69.2
33	South Carolina	67.9
34	Wisconsin	67.1
35	North Carolina	66.7
36	Tennessee	66.2
37	Alaska	64.9
38	Oklahoma	64.6
39	Iowa	63.2
40	Wyoming	62
41	North Dakota	61
42	Kentucky	58.7
43	New Hampshire	58.3
44	Alabama	57.7
45	South Dakota	57.2
46	Arkansas	55.5
47	Montana	53.4
48	Mississippi	46.3
49	West Virginia	44.6
50	Maine	38.6
51	Vermont	35.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census, 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (DHC), Tables P2 and H2: Urban and Rural. Reference period: 2020.

Cite this ranking

U.S. states ranked by urban share of population, 2020 Census (%, derived) (2020). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census, 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (DHC), Tables P2 and H2: Urban and Rural; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-urban-share-of-population-2020-census/

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