KFF used data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, which polls 1% of the U.S. population and provides accurate state-level health insurance coverage estimates. Respondents report their current insurance status and are categorized into a single insurance type based on specific criteria.
Employer-sponsored insurance includes coverage through a current or former employer or union, either as a policyholder or dependent.
Nationwide, 48.6% of Americans were covered under employer-sponsored health plans in 2023. Here’s how each state and Washington, D.C., ranked.
Note: The list includes ties.
- Utah — 60.4%
- District of Columbia — 58.9%
- North Dakota — 57.6%
- Minnesota — 56.5%
- New Hampshire — 55.4%
- Massachusetts — 54.6%
- Wisconsin — 54%
New Jersey — 54% - Illinois — 53.9%
Maryland — 53.9% - Kansas — 53.5%
- Nebraska — 53%
- Iowa — 52.8%
- Washington — 52.3%
- Colorado — 52.2%
- Virginia — 52%
- Indiana — 51.9%
- South Dakota — 51.4%
- Connecticut — 51.3%
Missouri — 51.3% - Ohio — 51%
- Rhode Island — 50.8%
- Pennsylvania — 50.3%
- Hawaii — 50%
- Michigan — 49.8%
- Vermont — 48.8%
- Idaho — 48.4%
- Oregon — 48.2%
- Delaware — 47.9%
- Wyoming — 47.8%
- Georgia — 47.4%
Texas — 47.4% - Tennessee — 47.1%
- California — 47%
New York — 47% - Nevada — 46.7%
- Arizona — 46.6%
- North Carolina — 46.5%
- Maine — 46.4%
- Alabama — 46.3%
- Kentucky — 46.1%
- South Carolina — 44.4%
- West Virginia — 44.3%
- Alaska — 43.8%
- Oklahoma — 43.2%
- Mississippi — 42.7%
- Arkansas — 42.4%
- Montana — 41.9%
- Louisiana — 40.9%
- Florida — 40.5%
- New Mexico — 34.6%
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