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Women 16 and over in labor force: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Women 16 and over in labor force. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Working parents and women's labor-force participation by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-04

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National value: 59.4 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 68.7 %
RI 61 %
DE 58.5 %
CT 62.1 %
NJ 62.8 %
MD 63.3 %
MA 63.2 %
VT 61.5 %
NH 62.3 %

Lowest: 50.3 to 56.7 %
Group 2: 56.7 to 58.9 %
Group 3: 58.9 to 60.4 %
Group 4: 60.4 to 62.3 %
Highest: 62.3 to 68.7 %

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	District of Columbia	68.7
2	Minnesota	64.2
2	Nebraska	64.2
4	Colorado	63.9
4	North Dakota	63.9
6	Maryland	63.3
7	Massachusetts	63.2
8	South Dakota	63
8	Utah	63
10	New Jersey	62.8
11	New Hampshire	62.3
12	Connecticut	62.1
13	Iowa	61.8
13	Kansas	61.8
15	Vermont	61.5
15	Virginia	61.5
17	Alaska	61.4
18	Wisconsin	61.2
19	Illinois	61
19	Rhode Island	61
21	Nevada	60.4
22	Georgia	60.3
22	Texas	60.3
24	Washington	59.8
25	Indiana	59.7
26	Hawaii	59.6
27	New York	59.5
28	Missouri	59.4
29	Montana	59.3
30	Ohio	59.2
31	Pennsylvania	58.9
32	North Carolina	58.7
33	California	58.5
33	Delaware	58.5
33	Maine	58.5
33	Oregon	58.5
37	Tennessee	58.4
38	Wyoming	58
39	Michigan	57.6
40	South Carolina	56.9
41	Oklahoma	56.7
42	Florida	56.6
42	Louisiana	56.6
44	Idaho	56.3
45	Arizona	56.1
46	Arkansas	55.9
47	Kentucky	55.4
48	Alabama	55
49	Mississippi	54.7
49	New Mexico	54.7
51	West Virginia	50.3

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table DP03: Selected Economic Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by women 16 and over in labor force (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP03; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-04. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-women-16-and-over-in-labor-force/

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