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Share of people 15 and over who are widowed: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of people 15 and over who are widowed (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Marital status by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-29

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National value: 5.5 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 3.3 %
RI 5.7 %
DE 5.5 %
CT 5 %
NJ 5.3 %
MD 5.2 %
MA 5.3 %
VT 5.8 %
NH 5.7 %

Lowest: 3.3 to 5.1 %
Group 2: 5.1 to 5.4 %
Group 3: 5.4 to 5.7 %
Group 4: 5.7 to 6.2 %
Highest: 6.2 to 7.5 %

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. Values are as published in the source table.


1	West Virginia	7.5
2	Mississippi	7
3	Alabama	6.9
4	Arkansas	6.6
4	Kentucky	6.6
6	South Carolina	6.5
7	Louisiana	6.4
7	Oklahoma	6.4
9	Pennsylvania	6.3
10	Iowa	6.2
10	Missouri	6.2
10	Montana	6.2
13	Florida	6.1
13	Ohio	6.1
13	Tennessee	6.1
16	Indiana	5.9
16	North Carolina	5.9
18	Vermont	5.8
19	Michigan	5.7
19	New Hampshire	5.7
19	Rhode Island	5.7
22	Illinois	5.6
22	Kansas	5.6
22	Maine	5.6
22	North Dakota	5.6
22	Wisconsin	5.6
27	Delaware	5.5
27	Hawaii	5.5
27	New Mexico	5.5
27	New York	5.5
31	Arizona	5.4
31	Nevada	5.4
31	South Dakota	5.4
31	Virginia	5.4
35	Georgia	5.3
35	Massachusetts	5.3
35	New Jersey	5.3
35	Oregon	5.3
39	Maryland	5.2
39	Wyoming	5.2
41	Nebraska	5.1
42	Connecticut	5
42	Minnesota	5
44	California	4.9
44	Idaho	4.9
46	Texas	4.8
47	Washington	4.6
48	Alaska	4.2
48	Colorado	4.2
50	Utah	3.6
51	District of Columbia	3.3

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1201: Marital Status. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of people 15 and over who are widowed (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1201; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-29. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-widowed/

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