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Women's share of licensed drivers: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Women's share of licensed drivers (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Licensed drivers by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

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

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National value: 50.5 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 51.2 %
RI 51.3 %
DE 51.4 %
CT 50.6 %
NJ 49.9 %
MD 51 %
MA 50.5 %
VT 50.3 %
NH 51.1 %

Lowest: 47.7 to 49.4 %
Group 2: 49.4 to 50.3 %
Group 3: 50.3 to 50.7 %
Group 4: 50.7 to 51.6 %
Highest: 51.6 to 54.8 %

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	Kentucky	54.8
2	Georgia	53.8
3	Mississippi	53
4	Virginia	52.6
5	South Carolina	52.4
6	Alabama	52.1
6	Louisiana	52.1
8	North Carolina	51.9
9	Tennessee	51.8
10	Colorado	51.6
10	Oklahoma	51.6
12	Delaware	51.4
12	North Dakota	51.4
14	Rhode Island	51.3
15	District of Columbia	51.2
16	Missouri	51.1
16	New Hampshire	51.1
18	Maryland	51
19	Arkansas	50.8
19	Ohio	50.8
21	Indiana	50.7
21	West Virginia	50.7
23	Connecticut	50.6
23	Idaho	50.6
23	Kansas	50.6
23	Michigan	50.6
27	Massachusetts	50.5
28	Florida	50.4
28	Maine	50.4
30	Iowa	50.3
30	Pennsylvania	50.3
30	Texas	50.3
30	Vermont	50.3
34	Oregon	50.2
35	Illinois	50.1
35	Wisconsin	50.1
37	New Jersey	49.9
38	New Mexico	49.8
39	Arizona	49.7
40	Nebraska	49.6
41	Minnesota	49.4
41	Utah	49.4
43	Hawaii	49.3
44	Montana	49.2
45	South Dakota	49.1
46	California	49
47	Wyoming	48.9
48	Nevada	48.8
48	Washington	48.8
50	New York	48
51	Alaska	47.7

Source: Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics 2024, Table DL-1C: Licensed Drivers by Sex and Ratio to Population. Reference period: 2024.

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U.S. states ranked by women's share of licensed drivers (%) (2024). Data: Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics 2024, Table DL-1C; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-womens-share-of-licensed-drivers/

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