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