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Lowest living alone by state

Share of households that are one person.

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

Households of a single person, as a share of all households. High in cities and in places with many older residents, for opposite reasons. It is a household measure, not a population one — a place where a third of households are one person is not a place where a third of people live alone.

  1. 1Utah20.5%
  2. 2California24.3%
  3. 3Idaho24.5%
  4. 4Hawaii25.0%
  5. 5Texas26.3%
  6. 6New Jersey26.5%
  7. 7Arizona27.6%
  8. 8New Hampshire27.7%
  9. 9Washington27.7%
  10. 10Georgia27.8%
  11. 11Nevada28.0%
  12. 12Florida28.3%
  13. 13Alaska28.4%
  14. 14Delaware28.4%
  15. 15Oregon28.5%
  16. 16Virginia28.7%
  17. 17Colorado28.8%
  18. 18Massachusetts28.9%
  19. 19Maryland28.9%
  20. 20Connecticut29.1%
  21. 21South Carolina29.3%
  22. 22North Carolina29.4%
  23. 23Tennessee29.5%
  24. 24Indiana29.6%
  25. 25Oklahoma29.6%
  26. 26Kentucky29.8%
  27. 27Minnesota29.8%
  28. 28Arkansas30.0%
  29. 29Kansas30.1%
  30. 30Mississippi30.3%
  31. 31Rhode Island30.3%
  32. 32Michigan30.7%
  33. 33Nebraska30.7%
  34. 34Maine30.8%
  35. 35Alabama30.9%
  36. 36Iowa30.9%
  37. 37Pennsylvania31.0%
  38. 38Missouri31.2%
  39. 39New York31.2%
  40. 40Vermont31.2%
  41. 41Illinois31.3%
  42. 42Wyoming31.3%
  43. 43Montana31.4%
  44. 44West Virginia31.4%
  45. 45Wisconsin31.5%
  46. 46Louisiana31.8%
  47. 47South Dakota32.0%
  48. 48Ohio32.1%
  49. 49New Mexico32.5%
  50. 50North Dakota34.6%
  51. 51District of Columbia47.3%
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. · How this is built