Utah has the highest share of households with one or more people under 18 among the 52 published areas on the 2023 ACS five-year estimates: 38.6%. Texas is next at 35.1%, then California at 32.9% and Georgia and Idaho both at 32.1%. A typical published area sits at 29.1%, the midpoint of those 52 shares, not a United States household rate. Vermont is the lowest of the 50 states at 23.7%. Puerto Rico is 24.7%, and the District of Columbia, which this table also returns, is 20.0%. California has the largest count of such households, 4,418,376, ahead of Texas at 3,773,746 and Florida at 2,269,215. The share is households with children divided by all households in that area.

38.6%Utahhighest share with children under 18

29.1%typical published areathe middle of the 52 shares, not an average

23.7%Vermontlowest of the 50 states

20.0%District of Columbialowest figure the Census published

4,418,376Californialargest count of households with children

Figure 2

Households with children under 18, all published states

Households with children · all 52 · ranked high to low

Summary

Counts of households with one or more people under 18. California leads at 4,418,376, then Texas at 3,773,746 and Florida at 2,269,215. These are household counts, not people under 18, and they cannot be averaged into a share.

Table 1

All states

52 rows · 10 columns · sorted by share with children under 18, low to high

Summary

All 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Share is households with one or more people under 18 divided by total households in that area.

All states
	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
District of Columbia	20.0%	64,200	2,168	321,556	1,499	257,356	2,245	63,835	32,723
Vermont	23.7%	63,966	1,151	269,466	1,559	205,500	1,720	63,519	42,386
Maine	24.0%	141,557	2,009	589,085	2,383	447,528	2,419	139,655	94,483
Puerto Rico	24.7%	305,726	3,995	1,239,243	5,156	933,517	4,530	304,720	121,398
Montana	25.7%	116,504	1,837	452,683	1,926	336,179	2,336	115,322	79,708
West Virginia	26.3%	189,606	2,746	721,448	2,890	531,842	2,669	187,836	121,421
New Hampshire	26.4%	145,513	2,184	551,186	2,292	405,673	2,809	143,813	102,074
Florida	26.5%	2,269,215	17,912	8,550,911	21,145	6,281,696	13,869	2,248,225	1,407,164
Wisconsin	26.6%	650,296	4,662	2,446,028	5,477	1,795,732	5,025	643,559	426,926
Rhode Island	27.0%	117,976	1,975	436,902	1,822	318,926	2,517	116,883	73,407
Pennsylvania	27.3%	1,428,576	8,350	5,235,339	9,438	3,806,763	7,794	1,416,072	917,990
Michigan	27.4%	1,105,841	6,940	4,040,168	8,515	2,934,327	6,877	1,095,267	708,285
Delaware	27.5%	108,860	1,959	396,209	1,648	287,349	2,266	108,136	65,482
North Dakota	27.5%	89,555	1,634	325,079	1,663	235,524	2,263	88,944	63,438
Oregon	27.6%	468,986	4,495	1,701,548	3,556	1,232,562	4,830	464,006	310,874
New York	27.8%	2,130,918	11,775	7,668,956	12,766	5,538,038	10,539	2,114,156	1,357,854
New Mexico	28.1%	231,791	3,498	825,021	3,033	593,230	3,745	230,159	127,426
Massachusetts	28.2%	778,542	4,848	2,762,070	5,223	1,983,528	5,801	773,129	524,670
Ohio	28.3%	1,364,656	7,583	4,829,571	8,204	3,464,915	7,304	1,349,681	844,154
Wyoming	28.5%	67,764	1,390	238,176	1,220	170,412	1,495	67,198	47,945
Iowa	28.6%	373,466	3,178	1,303,763	3,538	930,297	3,247	369,660	253,133
South Carolina	28.6%	592,611	6,019	2,070,390	5,976	1,477,779	5,762	586,279	363,830
Connecticut	28.7%	407,848	4,161	1,420,170	3,490	1,012,322	4,360	404,355	266,923
Missouri	28.7%	714,244	5,405	2,484,834	6,166	1,770,590	5,433	705,344	463,095
Colorado	28.9%	672,594	5,178	2,325,576	4,759	1,652,982	4,952	667,599	477,723
Alabama	29.1%	572,509	5,794	1,969,105	6,574	1,396,596	5,081	568,207	352,670
Illinois	29.1%	1,453,064	8,401	5,001,904	7,673	3,548,840	8,116	1,439,809	953,421
Minnesota	29.1%	664,943	4,515	2,282,967	5,281	1,618,024	4,794	658,763	461,878
South Dakota	29.1%	104,416	1,577	358,552	1,643	254,136	2,093	103,197	70,984
Arizona	29.3%	820,480	5,891	2,796,790	6,018	1,976,310	5,735	811,642	515,065
North Carolina	29.4%	1,232,974	9,797	4,186,924	10,494	2,953,950	7,396	1,222,090	787,117
Tennessee	29.6%	818,373	7,236	2,768,743	7,134	1,950,370	6,891	809,709	516,143
Nevada	29.7%	352,039	4,136	1,183,393	3,022	831,354	4,046	348,301	211,032
Washington	29.8%	899,385	6,701	3,020,558	5,770	2,121,173	6,577	889,397	625,772
Indiana	30.1%	807,357	5,881	2,681,537	6,532	1,874,180	5,712	797,927	520,493
Kentucky	30.2%	540,445	4,532	1,791,991	5,353	1,251,546	4,955	534,585	341,017
Nebraska	30.4%	239,535	2,174	786,885	2,232	547,350	2,577	237,075	164,803
Kansas	30.5%	353,703	3,272	1,160,715	3,961	807,012	3,733	350,538	241,217
Hawaii	30.6%	149,627	2,150	488,991	1,924	339,364	2,521	148,474	100,987
Virginia	30.6%	1,016,683	7,206	3,326,260	8,075	2,309,577	6,360	1,007,979	692,805
Louisiana	30.7%	547,288	5,003	1,783,168	5,717	1,235,880	5,120	543,298	307,072
Arkansas	30.9%	367,640	4,165	1,189,160	4,619	821,520	4,302	363,741	231,062
Maryland	31.0%	725,244	5,373	2,339,510	4,595	1,614,266	5,144	718,801	469,014
Mississippi	31.4%	355,673	5,124	1,131,760	5,057	776,087	4,287	352,334	200,768
New Jersey	31.4%	1,093,381	6,433	3,478,355	4,714	2,384,974	6,439	1,086,820	760,478
Oklahoma	31.6%	486,983	3,272	1,542,780	3,468	1,055,797	3,388	482,158	310,959
Alaska	31.9%	85,391	1,613	267,865	1,441	182,474	1,833	84,678	57,733
Georgia	32.1%	1,285,547	10,917	4,008,013	9,372	2,722,466	9,444	1,274,490	795,339
Idaho	32.1%	222,713	2,703	693,821	2,298	471,108	3,190	221,060	162,555
California	32.9%	4,418,376	21,132	13,434,847	19,805	9,016,471	11,524	4,384,028	2,983,999
Texas	35.1%	3,773,746	19,921	10,747,240	15,647	6,973,494	13,891	3,750,343	2,508,943
Utah	38.6%	422,506	2,924	1,094,896	2,787	672,390	3,483	420,141	330,862

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About this data

Households with children are households with one or more people under 18 years, from ACS table B11005. The person under 18 need not be the householder's own child.
The share is households with one or more people under 18 divided by all households in that area. A state share is for that area alone, so these percentages cannot be averaged into a United States household rate.
A midpoint of the 52 published shares is the middle of those area rates, not a national figure built from every US household.
The Census published 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. None of the household counts were suppressed, and the main margins of error are ordinary sampling errors rather than ACS controlled-estimate sentinels.
Puerto Rico is in the ranking and table. Alaska and Hawaii appear on the ranking; on the map they are shown in inset.
Family and married-couple columns are the ACS household-type split of households that include someone under 18.

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