Rankings · Place

Highest children by state

Share of residents under 18.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

How much of the population is school age or younger. Read beside the share over 65: a county at the national median age can be families and retirees in equal measure, or neither, and the median alone cannot tell you which. This is the number that says whether a place feels like a family town.

  1. 1Utah27.8%
  2. 2Texas25.0%
  3. 3Nebraska24.5%
  4. 4South Dakota24.2%
  5. 5Alaska24.1%
  6. 6Idaho24.1%
  7. 7Oklahoma23.9%
  8. 8Kansas23.8%
  9. 9Louisiana23.5%
  10. 10North Dakota23.5%
  11. 11Indiana23.3%
  12. 12Mississippi23.3%
  13. 13Georgia23.2%
  14. 14Arkansas23.1%
  15. 15Iowa22.9%
  16. 16Minnesota22.9%
  17. 17Kentucky22.6%
  18. 18Wyoming22.5%
  19. 19Missouri22.3%
  20. 20Alabama22.2%
  21. 21Maryland22.2%
  22. 22Tennessee22.2%
  23. 23California22.0%
  24. 24Ohio22.0%
  25. 25Illinois21.9%
  26. 26North Carolina21.8%
  27. 27New Jersey21.8%
  28. 28New Mexico21.7%
  29. 29Nevada21.7%
  30. 30Virginia21.7%
  31. 31Arizona21.6%
  32. 32South Carolina21.4%
  33. 33Washington21.4%
  34. 34Wisconsin21.4%
  35. 35Michigan21.2%
  36. 36Colorado21.0%
  37. 37Montana21.0%
  38. 38Delaware20.7%
  39. 39Hawaii20.7%
  40. 40New York20.5%
  41. 41Pennsylvania20.4%
  42. 42Connecticut20.2%
  43. 43West Virginia20.0%
  44. 44Oregon19.9%
  45. 45Florida19.5%
  46. 46Massachusetts19.4%
  47. 47Rhode Island18.8%
  48. 48District of Columbia18.7%
  49. 49New Hampshire18.2%
  50. 50Maine18.0%
  51. 51Vermont17.9%
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. · How this is built