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