State Rankings
See also: List of U.S. states and territories by populationThe state with the highest percentage rate of growth was Nevada, while the state with the largest population increase was Texas. Michigan, the 8th largest by population, was the only state to lose population (although Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, lost population as well), and the District of Columbia saw its first gain since the 1950s.
Rank | State | Population as of 2000 Census |
Population as of 2010 Census |
Change | Percent change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | California | 33,871,648 | 37,253,956 | 3,382,308 | 10.0% |
2 | Texas | 20,851,820 | 25,145,561 | 4,293,741 | 20.6% |
3 | New York | 18,976,457 | 19,378,102 | 401,645 | 2.1% |
4 | Florida | 15,982,378 | 18,801,310 | 2,818,932 | 17.6% |
5 | Illinois | 12,419,293 | 12,830,632 | 411,339 | 3.3% |
6 | Pennsylvania | 12,281,054 | 12,702,379 | 421,325 | 3.4% |
7 | Ohio | 11,353,140 | 11,536,504 | 183,364 | 1.6% |
8 | Michigan | 9,938,444 | 9,883,640 | -54,804 | -0.6% |
9 | Georgia | 8,186,453 | 9,687,653 | 1,501,200 | 18.3% |
10 | North Carolina | 8,049,313 | 9,535,483 | 1,486,170 | 18.5% |
11 | New Jersey | 8,414,350 | 8,791,894 | 377,544 | 4.5% |
12 | Virginia | 7,078,515 | 8,001,024 | 922,509 | 13.0% |
13 | Washington | 5,894,121 | 6,724,540 | 830,419 | 14.1% |
14 | Massachusetts | 6,349,097 | 6,547,629 | 198,532 | 3.1% |
15 | Indiana | 6,080,485 | 6,483,802 | 403,317 | 6.6% |
16 | Arizona | 5,130,632 | 6,392,017 | 1,261,385 | 24.6% |
17 | Tennessee | 5,689,283 | 6,346,105 | 656,822 | 11.5% |
18 | Missouri | 5,595,211 | 5,988,927 | 393,716 | 7.0% |
19 | Maryland | 5,296,486 | 5,773,552 | 477,066 | 9.0% |
20 | Wisconsin | 5,363,675 | 5,686,986 | 323,311 | 6.0% |
21 | Minnesota | 4,919,479 | 5,303,925 | 384,446 | 7.8% |
22 | Colorado | 4,301,261 | 5,029,196 | 727,935 | 16.9% |
23 | Alabama | 4,447,100 | 4,779,736 | 332,636 | 7.5% |
24 | South Carolina | 4,012,012 | 4,625,364 | 613,352 | 15.3% |
25 | Louisiana | 4,468,976 | 4,533,372 | 64,396 | 1.4% |
26 | Kentucky | 4,041,769 | 4,339,367 | 297,598 | 7.4% |
27 | Oregon | 3,421,399 | 3,831,074 | 409,675 | 12.0% |
28 | Oklahoma | 3,450,654 | 3,751,351 | 300,697 | 8.7% |
29 | Connecticut | 3,405,565 | 3,574,097 | 168,532 | 4.9% |
30 | Iowa | 2,926,324 | 3,046,355 | 120,031 | 4.1% |
31 | Mississippi | 2,844,658 | 2,967,297 | 122,639 | 4.3% |
32 | Arkansas | 2,673,400 | 2,915,918 | 242,518 | 9.1% |
33 | Kansas | 2,688,418 | 2,853,118 | 164,700 | 6.1% |
34 | Utah | 2,233,169 | 2,763,885 | 530,716 | 23.8% |
35 | Nevada | 1,998,257 | 2,700,551 | 702,294 | 35.1% |
36 | New Mexico | 1,819,046 | 2,059,179 | 240,133 | 13.2% |
37 | West Virginia | 1,808,344 | 1,852,994 | 44,650 | 2.5% |
38 | Nebraska | 1,711,263 | 1,826,341 | 115,078 | 6.7% |
39 | Idaho | 1,293,953 | 1,567,582 | 273,629 | 21.1% |
40 | Hawaii | 1,211,537 | 1,360,301 | 148,764 | 12.3% |
41 | Maine | 1,274,923 | 1,328,361 | 53,438 | 4.2% |
42 | New Hampshire | 1,235,786 | 1,316,470 | 80,684 | 6.5% |
43 | Rhode Island | 1,048,319 | 1,052,567 | 4,248 | 0.4% |
44 | Montana | 902,195 | 989,415 | 87,220 | 9.7% |
45 | Delaware | 783,600 | 897,934 | 114,334 | 14.6% |
46 | South Dakota | 754,844 | 814,180 | 59,336 | 7.9% |
47 | Alaska | 626,932 | 710,231 | 83,299 | 13.3% |
48 | North Dakota | 642,200 | 672,591 | 30,391 | 4.7% |
49 | Vermont | 608,827 | 625,741 | 16,914 | 2.8% |
— | District of Columbia | 572,059 | 601,723 | 29,664 | 5.2% |
50 | Wyoming | 493,782 | 563,626 | 69,844 | 14.1% |
United States | 281,421,906 | 308,745,538 | 27,323,632 | 9.7% |
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