Texas has the most uninsured residents in the country, while Vermont has the least, according to new data released Aug. 3 by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The new data is from 2021 and comes from the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates program, which is the only comprehensive source for single-year estimates of health insurance coverage in each of the country's 3,142 counties.
Texas also has the highest percentage of uninsured residents at 20.3 percent, while Massachusetts has the lowest at 2.9 percent.
The nation's uninsured rate hit a record low of 7.7 percent in the first quarter of 2023, according to data published Aug. 3 by the CDC. The record rate does not reflect the millions of people removed from Medicaid during the redeterminations process, which began in April.
States ranked by total uninsured residents:
- Texas: 5.1 million
- California: 2.6 million
- Florida: 2.5 million
- Georgia: 1.3 million
- North Carolina: 1.1 million
- New York: 974,000
- Illinois: 845,000
- Arizona: 758,000
- Ohio: 742,000
- Pennsylvania: 681,000
- Tennessee: 671,000
- New Jersey: 623,000
- Missouri: 564,000
- Virginia: 559,000
- Oklahoma: 548,000
- South Carolina: 501,000
- Indiana: 494,000
- Washington: 488,000
- Michigan: 486,000
- Alabama: 470,000
- Colorado: 452,000
- Nevada: 358,000
- Maryland: 350,000
- Louisiana: 340,000
- Mississippi: 336,000
- Wisconsin: 305,000
- Utah: 295,000
- Arkansas: 268,000
- Kansas: 260,000
- Oregon: 252,000
- Minnesota: 248,000
- Kentucky: 247,000
- New Mexico: 208,000
- Connecticut: 173,000
- Idaho: 164,000
- Massachusetts: 163,000
- Iowa: 148,000
- Nebraska: 136,000
- West Virginia: 106,000
- Montana: 91,000
- South Dakota: 81,000
- Alaska: 80,500
- Maine: 77,000
- Wyoming: 71,000
- New Hampshire: 69,000
- North Dakota: 58,000
- Hawaii: 53,490
- Delaware: 53,437
- Rhode Island: 42,000
- Vermont: 22,000
- Washington, D.C: 20,000