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🏙️ US States by Population Density

People per square mile of land area.

📅 2023📏 people per sq mi51 entries🇺🇸 See all of this country’s rankings →
Every dot is one entry, placed by its value (people per sq mi, logarithmic scale); the vertical bar marks each row’s median.
1
District of Columbia
11,131
2
New Jersey
1,263
3
Rhode Island
1,060
4
Massachusetts
898
5
Connecticut
747
6
Maryland
637
7
Delaware
529
8
Florida
422
9
New York
415
10
Pennsylvania
290
11
Ohio
288
12
California
250
13
Illinois
226
14
Hawaii
223
15
North Carolina
223
16
Virginia
221
17
Georgia
192
18
Indiana
192
19
South Carolina
179
20
Michigan
178
21
Tennessee
173
22
New Hampshire
157
23
Washington
118
24
Texas
117
25
Kentucky
115
26
Wisconsin
109
27
Louisiana
106
28
Alabama
101
29
Missouri
90
30
West Virginia
74
31
Minnesota
72
32
Vermont
70
33
Arizona
65
34
Mississippi
63
35
Arkansas
59
36
Oklahoma
59
37
Colorado
57
38
Iowa
57
39
Maine
45
40
Oregon
44
41
Utah
42
42
Kansas
36
43
Nevada
29
44
Nebraska
26
45
Idaho
24
46
New Mexico
17
47
South Dakota
12
48
North Dakota
11
49
Montana
8
50
Wyoming
6
51
Alaska
1

Highlights

Within United States, District of Columbia ranks first in 2023 with 11,131, followed by New Jersey (1,263) and Rhode Island (1,060).

District of Columbia is 8.8 times higher than New Jersey, the runner-up.

Across 51 entries, values run from 11,131 (District of Columbia) to 1 (Alaska), with a median of 109.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau (population 2023, land area 2010) (via Wikipedia), 2023. Unit: people per sq mi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau (population 2023, land area 2010) (via Wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia); underlying data © the cited agency · fetched Oct 13, 2026