Two states have youth uninsured rates above 10 percent (Texas and Wyoming), while two states have rates below 2 percent (Vermont and Massachusetts), according to 2021 U.S. Census data.
The data is from the bureau's American Community Survey and was compiled by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. The national uninsured rate for children is 5.4 percent.
States ranked by rate of uninsured children:
- Texas: 11.8 percent
- Wyoming: 11.4 percent
- Nevada: 8.6 percent
- Arizona: 8.5 percent
- Alaska: 7.9 percent
Utah: 7.9 percent - South Dakota: 7.6 percent
- Oklahoma: 7.4 percent
- Florida : 7.3 percent
North Dakota: 7.3 percent - Montana: 7 percent
Idaho: 7 percent - Georgia: 6.6 percent
- New Mexico: 6.4 percent
- Mississippi: 6.2 percent
- Indiana: 6 percent
- Missouri: 5.9 percent
- Arkansas: 5.8 percent
- North Carolina: 5.5 percent
- South Carolina: 5.3 percent
- Ohio: 5.1 percent
- Kansas: 5 percent
- Tennessee: 4.9 percent
- Nebraska: 4.7 percent
- Colorado: 4.6 percent
- Pennsylvania: 4.4 percent
Virginia: 4.4 percent - Maine: 4.3 percent
Maryland: 4.3 percent - Alabama: 4 percent
Kentucky: 4 percent
New Hampshire: 4 percent
Wisconsin: 4 percent
Louisiana: 4 percent - District of Columbia: 3.7 percent
Delaware: 3.7 percent - New Jersey: 3.6 percent
- California: 3.5 percent
- Oregon: 3.4 percent
Iowa: 3.4 percent - West Virginia: 3.3 percent
- Minnesota: 3.2 percent
Illinois: 3.2 percent - Washington: 3.1 percent
- Michigan: 3 percent
- Hawaii: 2.8 percent
- New York: 2.6 percent
- Rhode Island: 2.5 percent
- Connecticut: 2.4 percent
- Vermont: 1.9 percent
- Massachusetts: 1.3 percent