States ranked by percentage of population enrolled in Medigap plans

A March 10 report from America's Health Insurance Plan's ​​Center for Policy Research provides the total number of individuals per state enrolled in a Medicare Supplement plan.

The supplement data was last updated Dec. 31, 2020. 

Becker's calculated the percentage of each state's population that is enrolled in a Medicare Supplement plan using data from the 2020 U.S. Census.

The states ranked by the share of their population enrolled in Medigap:

 

Wyoming: 10 percent

Iowa: 9.6 percent

Nebraska: 9.3 percent

Kansas: 8.6 percent

South Dakota: 8.4 percent

Montana: 8.4 percent

Vermont: 8.3 percent

New Hampshire: 7.1 percent

North Dakota: 7.1 percent

Delaware: 6.6 percent

Arkansas: 6.4 percent

Illinois: 6.2 percent

Indiana: 5.8 percent

Mississippi: 5.7 percent

South Carolina: 5.5 percent

Pennsylvania: 5.4 percent

New Jersey: 5.2 percent

Ohio: 5.2 percent

Wisconsin: 5.2 percent

Virginia: 5.1 percent

Oklahoma: 5.1 percent

Kentucky: 5.1 percent

Missouri: 5 percent

West Virginia: 5 percent

Massachusetts: 4.9 percent

Idaho: 4.9 percent

Arizona: 4.8 percent

North Carolina: 4.8 percent

Tennessee: 4.6 percent

Maine: 4.6 percent

Rhode Island: 4.6 percent

Oregon: 4.4 percent

Connecticut: 4.3 percent

Florida: 4.2 percent

Michigan: 4.2 percent

Maryland: 4.2 percent

Minnesota: 4 percent

Washington: 4 percent

Colorado: 3.9 percent

Alabama: 3.9 percent

Georgia: 3.6 percent

New Mexico: 3.3 percent

Louisiana: 3.3 percent

Nevada: 3.2 percent

Texas: 3.1 percent

Utah: 2.6 percent

Alaska: 2.4 percent

New York: 2.4 percent

Washington, D.C.: 1.7 percent

California: 1.5 percent

Hawaii: 0.9 percent

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