Ranking of US States By Number of People and Percentage of Population With No Health Insurance Coverage in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)
Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, the percentage of the US population without a health insurance coverage was 8.77% (i.e. 28,489,142 people). Percentagewise, among all US states, Texas had the highest percentage of its population with no health insurance coverage (17.58%), followed by Oklahoma (14.32%), and Georgia (13.13%).
In numerical terms, Texas had the highest number of people without a health insurance coverage (4,995,381), followed by California (2,800,277), and Florida (2,657,226).
For the District of Columbia, there were 22,843 people with no health insurance coverage (i.e. 3.39% of the population of DC).
The charts below shows the top 10 states by the number of people and percentage of the population without a 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 | Texas | 17.58 |
| 2 | Oklahoma | 14.32 |
| 3 | Georgia | 13.13 |
| 4 | Florida | 12.64 |
| 5 | Alaska | 12.18 |
| 6 | Mississippi | 12.09 |
| 7 | Wyoming | 11.68 |
| 8 | Nevada | 11.28 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 10.74 |
| 10 | Arizona | 10.66 |
| 11 | South Carolina | 10.46 |
| 12 | Idaho | 10.17 |
| 13 | Tennessee | 10.07 |
| 14 | Alabama | 9.70 |
| 15 | New Mexico | 9.65 |
| 16 | South Dakota | 9.59 |
| 17 | Missouri | 9.53 |
| 18 | Utah | 8.99 |
| 19 | Kansas | 8.90 |
| 20 | Arkansas | 8.70 |
| 21 | Montana | 8.55 |
| 22 | Louisiana | 8.28 |
| 23 | Nebraska | 8.03 |
| 24 | Indiana | 7.97 |
| 25 | Virginia | 7.88 |
| 26 | Colorado | 7.87 |
| 27 | New Jersey | 7.55 |
| 28 | North Dakota | 7.54 |
| 29 | Maine | 7.37 |
| 30 | California | 7.19 |
| 31 | Illinois | 7.00 |
| 32 | Oregon | 6.68 |
| 33 | West Virginia | 6.42 |
| 34 | Washington | 6.36 |
| 35 | Ohio | 6.34 |
| 36 | Maryland | 5.95 |
| 37 | New Hampshire | 5.90 |
| 38 | Delaware | 5.84 |
| 39 | Kentucky | 5.82 |
| 40 | Pennsylvania | 5.62 |
| 41 | Wisconsin | 5.49 |
| 42 | New York | 5.33 |
| 43 | Michigan | 5.32 |
| 44 | Connecticut | 5.23 |
| 45 | Iowa | 4.86 |
| 46 | Minnesota | 4.60 |
| 47 | Rhode Island | 4.42 |
| 48 | Vermont | 4.06 |
| 49 | Hawaii | 4.01 |
| 50 | Massachusetts | 2.78 |
| Rank | State | Number of People |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | 4995381 |
| 2 | California | 2800277 |
| 3 | Florida | 2657226 |
| 4 | Georgia | 1371027 |
| 5 | North Carolina | 1092162 |
| 6 | New York | 1059370 |
| 7 | Illinois | 885820 |
| 8 | Arizona | 743344 |
| 9 | Ohio | 735559 |
| 10 | Pennsylvania | 717759 |
| 11 | New Jersey | 689666 |
| 12 | Tennessee | 680094 |
| 13 | Virginia | 658732 |
| 14 | Missouri | 575152 |
| 15 | Oklahoma | 554123 |
| 16 | Indiana | 530422 |
| 17 | Michigan | 529451 |
| 18 | South Carolina | 521410 |
| 19 | Alabama | 477303 |
| 20 | Washington | 477069 |
| 21 | Colorado | 443230 |
| 22 | Louisiana | 377126 |
| 23 | Maryland | 360098 |
| 24 | Mississippi | 350775 |
| 25 | Nevada | 340894 |
| 26 | Wisconsin | 318308 |
| 27 | Utah | 288116 |
| 28 | Oregon | 278280 |
| 29 | Minnesota | 258292 |
| 30 | Kentucky | 257226 |
| 31 | Arkansas | 257025 |
| 32 | Kansas | 256001 |
| 33 | New Mexico | 200063 |
| 34 | Massachusetts | 192326 |
| 35 | Connecticut | 186152 |
| 36 | Idaho | 182072 |
| 37 | Nebraska | 154395 |
| 38 | Iowa | 152516 |
| 39 | West Virginia | 113840 |
| 40 | Maine | 98944 |
| 41 | Montana | 90973 |
| 42 | Alaska | 86440 |
| 43 | South Dakota | 82946 |
| 44 | New Hampshire | 80005 |
| 45 | Wyoming | 66211 |
| 46 | North Dakota | 57010 |
| 47 | Delaware | 56442 |
| 48 | Hawaii | 55965 |
| 49 | Rhode Island | 47506 |
| 50 | Vermont | 25775 |