Population By State

US State Populations

By the end of 2020 US population was approximately 331 million and counting. Below is a list of US states ranked by population. Not all the biggest states have the most population although some of the biggest states are home to the most people. Alaska is the US’s largest state per area but one of the lowest in terms of population.


Rank State State Population (2019)
1 California 39,512,223
2 Texas 28,995,881
3 Florida 21,477,737
4 New York 19,453,561
5 Pennsylvania 12,801,989
6 Illinois 12,671,821
7 Ohio 11,689,100
8 Georgia 10,617,423
9 North Carolina 10,488,084
10 Michigan 9,986,857
11 New Jersey 8,882,190
12 Virginia 8,535,519
13 Washington 7,614,893
14 Arizona 7,278,717
15 Massachusetts 6,892,503
16 Tennessee 6,829,174
17 Indiana 6,732,219
18 Missouri 6,137,428
19 Maryland 6,045,680
20 Wisconsin 5,822,434
21 Colorado 5,758,736
22 Minnesota 5,639,632
23 South Carolina 5,148,714
24 Alabama 4,903,185
25 Louisiana 4,648,794
26 Kentucky 4,467,673
27 Oregon 4,217,737
28 Oklahoma 3,956,971
29 Connecticut 3,565,287
30 Utah 3,205,958
31 Iowa 3,155,070
32 Nevada 3,080,156
33 Arkansas 3,017,804
34 Mississippi 2,976,149
35 Kansas 2,913,314
36 New Mexico 2,096,829
37 Nebraska 1,934,408
38 West Virginia 1,792,147
39 Idaho 1,787,065
40 Hawaii 1,415,872
41 New Hampshire 1,359,711
42 Maine 1,344,212
43 Montana 1,068,778
44 Rhode Island 1,059,361
45 Delaware 973,764
46 South Dakota 884,659
47 North Dakota 762,062
48 Alaska 731,545
49 Vermont 623,989
50 Wyoming 578,759

Below you can easily see how many more people there are in California, Texas, and Florida as opposed to many of the other US states. 

US population by state