Ranking of US States By Number of People and Percentage of Population With Medicare Health Insurance Coverage in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)
Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, the percentage of the US population who had Medicare health insurance coverage was 17.58% (i.e. 57,087,806 people). Percentagewise, among all US states, West Virginia had the highest percentage of its population with Medicare health insurance coverage (23.69%), followed by Maine (23.07%), and Florida (21.85%).
In numerical terms, California had the highest number of people with Medicare health insurance coverage (5,956,364), followed by Florida (4,593,407), and Texas (3,868,582).
For the District of Columbia, there were 88,251 people with Medicare health insurance coverage (i.e. 13.10% of the population of DC).
The charts below shows the top 10 states by the number of people and percentage of the population with Medicare health insurance coverage. The tables below shows the ranking for all states and DC.
You can see similar information for other types of health insurance coverages.
| Rank | State | Percentage of Population (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Virginia | 23.69 |
| 2 | Maine | 23.07 |
| 3 | Florida | 21.85 |
| 4 | Vermont | 21.42 |
| 5 | Delaware | 20.97 |
| 6 | Montana | 20.51 |
| 7 | South Carolina | 20.34 |
| 8 | Arkansas | 20.27 |
| 9 | Alabama | 20.25 |
| 10 | New Mexico | 20.00 |
| 11 | Pennsylvania | 19.83 |
| 12 | New Hampshire | 19.71 |
| 13 | Kentucky | 19.69 |
| 14 | Michigan | 19.52 |
| 15 | Hawaii | 19.48 |
| 15 | Mississippi | 19.48 |
| 16 | Oregon | 19.25 |
| 17 | Missouri | 19.07 |
| 18 | Arizona | 18.97 |
| 19 | Rhode Island | 18.93 |
| 20 | Tennessee | 18.70 |
| 21 | Ohio | 18.67 |
| 22 | Wisconsin | 18.60 |
| 23 | North Carolina | 18.52 |
| 24 | Iowa | 18.25 |
| 25 | Louisiana | 18.18 |
| 26 | Wyoming | 18.12 |
| 27 | Oklahoma | 18.08 |
| 28 | Connecticut | 18.00 |
| 29 | South Dakota | 17.84 |
| 30 | Idaho | 17.73 |
| 31 | New York | 17.68 |
| 32 | Indiana | 17.60 |
| 33 | Massachusetts | 17.31 |
| 34 | Kansas | 17.24 |
| 35 | Virginia | 17.14 |
| 36 | Nevada | 17.11 |
| 37 | New Jersey | 16.99 |
| 38 | Minnesota | 16.81 |
| 39 | Washington | 16.78 |
| 40 | Nebraska | 16.72 |
| 41 | Illinois | 16.64 |
| 42 | Maryland | 16.52 |
| 43 | North Dakota | 16.07 |
| 44 | Georgia | 15.92 |
| 45 | Colorado | 15.37 |
| 46 | California | 15.29 |
| 47 | Texas | 13.62 |
| 48 | Alaska | 13.45 |
| 49 | Utah | 11.78 |
| Rank | State | Number of People |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 5956364 |
| 2 | Florida | 4593407 |
| 3 | Texas | 3868582 |
| 4 | New York | 3515177 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | 2533077 |
| 6 | Ohio | 2166459 |
| 7 | Illinois | 2104647 |
| 8 | Michigan | 1944116 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 1882747 |
| 10 | Georgia | 1662165 |
| 11 | New Jersey | 1551408 |
| 12 | Virginia | 1432465 |
| 13 | Arizona | 1323256 |
| 14 | Tennessee | 1263474 |
| 15 | Washington | 1259276 |
| 16 | Massachusetts | 1198262 |
| 17 | Indiana | 1171629 |
| 18 | Missouri | 1150985 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | 1079214 |
| 20 | South Carolina | 1013943 |
| 21 | Maryland | 999255 |
| 22 | Alabama | 996118 |
| 23 | Minnesota | 943655 |
| 24 | Kentucky | 869651 |
| 25 | Colorado | 865390 |
| 26 | Louisiana | 828081 |
| 27 | Oregon | 802153 |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 699679 |
| 29 | Connecticut | 640233 |
| 30 | Arkansas | 599015 |
| 31 | Iowa | 572869 |
| 32 | Mississippi | 565249 |
| 33 | Nevada | 517190 |
| 34 | Kansas | 495634 |
| 35 | West Virginia | 420186 |
| 36 | New Mexico | 414592 |
| 37 | Utah | 377542 |
| 38 | Nebraska | 321602 |
| 39 | Idaho | 317361 |
| 40 | Maine | 309592 |
| 41 | Hawaii | 271789 |
| 42 | New Hampshire | 267288 |
| 43 | Montana | 218176 |
| 44 | Rhode Island | 203709 |
| 45 | Delaware | 202638 |
| 46 | South Dakota | 154333 |
| 47 | Vermont | 136145 |
| 48 | North Dakota | 121617 |
| 49 | Wyoming | 102768 |
| 50 | Alaska | 95392 |