Rankings · Place

Highest retirement age by state

Share of residents 65 and over.

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

Residents at or past the usual retirement age. High figures mean retirement destinations and places young people have left, which look identical here and differ completely — read it against net migration and population change to tell them apart.

  1. 1Maine22.4%
  2. 2Vermont21.4%
  3. 3Florida21.3%
  4. 4West Virginia21.0%
  5. 5Delaware20.6%
  6. 6Hawaii20.5%
  7. 7Montana20.1%
  8. 8New Hampshire20.1%
  9. 9Pennsylvania19.5%
  10. 10New Mexico19.3%
  11. 11Oregon19.1%
  12. 12Arizona18.9%
  13. 13South Carolina18.9%
  14. 14Rhode Island18.7%
  15. 15Michigan18.6%
  16. 16Connecticut18.5%
  17. 17Wisconsin18.5%
  18. 18Wyoming18.5%
  19. 19Ohio18.3%
  20. 20Iowa18.1%
  21. 21South Dakota18.0%
  22. 22Massachusetts17.9%
  23. 23Missouri17.9%
  24. 24New York17.9%
  25. 25Alabama17.8%
  26. 26Arkansas17.6%
  27. 27Kentucky17.3%
  28. 28Minnesota17.3%
  29. 29Mississippi17.2%
  30. 30North Carolina17.2%
  31. 31New Jersey17.2%
  32. 32Tennessee17.1%
  33. 33Idaho17.0%
  34. 34Illinois17.0%
  35. 35Kansas17.0%
  36. 36Nevada17.0%
  37. 37Indiana16.8%
  38. 38Louisiana16.7%
  39. 39Nebraska16.7%
  40. 40Virginia16.7%
  41. 41Maryland16.6%
  42. 42Washington16.6%
  43. 43North Dakota16.5%
  44. 44Oklahoma16.3%
  45. 45California15.7%
  46. 46Colorado15.6%
  47. 47Georgia15.0%
  48. 48Alaska13.8%
  49. 49Texas13.4%
  50. 50District of Columbia12.8%
  51. 51Utah11.9%
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. · How this is built