The Kaiser Family Foundation calculated monthly average ACA marketplace benchmark premiums per state in 2022. The national average is $438.
The data is based on the second-lowest-cost silver premium for a 40-year-old in each county and weighted by county plan selections.
States ranked from highest to lowest benchmark premiums:
- Wyoming: $762
- West Virginia: $752
- Vermont: $749
- Alaska: $712
- South Dakota: $601
- Alabama: $597
- Nebraska: $595
- New York: $592
- Connecticut: $581
- Delaware: $548
- Louisiana: $541
- North Carolina: $504
- Iowa: $502
- Oklahoma: $498
- North Dakota: $497
- Hawaii: $484
- Montana: $483
- Idaho: $461
- Florida: $456
- Utah: $456
- Kansas: $450
- Virginia: $450
- Mississippi: $448
- Tennessee: $445
- Oregon: $444
- South Carolina: $444
- Missouri: $442
- Wisconsin: $429
- Maine: $427
- New Jersey: $424
- Texas: $424
- Illinois: $418
- California: $417
- Pennsylvania: $410
- Indiana: $398
- Washington: $396
- Georgia: $394
- Arizona: $390
- Massachusetts: $389
- New Mexico: $389
- Arkansas: $387
- District of Columbia: $387
- Kentucky: $387
- Nevada: $383
- Ohio: $375
- Rhode Island: $361
- Colorado: $351
- Michigan: $340
- Minnesota: $331
- Maryland: $328
- New Hampshire: $309