Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults reported not having a personal physician last year, according to new data from KFF.
The analysis is based on 2024 survey data from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
Nationwide, 16.8% of adults reported that they did not have one or more individuals they thought of as a personal physician or healthcare provider. This figure varied significantly across states, with New Mexico reporting the highest rate (29%) and New Hampshire reporting the lowest (9%).
Here’s how each state and the District of Columbia rank.
Editor’s note: The list includes ties. Tennessee did not collect sufficient data to meet the minimum reporting requirements for inclusion in 2024. As a result, it does not appear in the list below.
- New Mexico — 29%
- Nevada — 26.8%
- Wyoming — 24%
Texas — 24% - Alaska — 21.7%
- Montana — 20.7%
- Utah — 20.6%
- Arizona — 20.5%
- California — 20.3%
- Idaho — 19.1%
- Nebraska — 18.9%
Iowa — 18.9% - Colorado — 18.8%
- South Dakota — 18.2%
- Florida — 17.7%
- North Carolina — 17.6%
- Illinois — 17.4%
- Kansas — 17.3%
- Oklahoma — 17.1%
- Mississippi — 17%
- Minnesota — 16.8%
- Washington — 16.4%
- Missouri — 16.3%
Georgia — 16.3% - Wisconsin — 16.1%
South Carolina — 16.1%
Oregon — 16.1% - North Dakota — 15.8%
- New Jersey — 15.2%
- Alabama — 14.6%
- Virginia — 14.5%
- Kentucky — 14.1%
- Delaware — 13.7%
- New York — 13.5%
- West Virginia — 13.3%
- Louisiana — 13.2%
- Arkansas — 13.1%
- Indiana — 13%
- District of Columbia — 12.9%
- Hawaii — 12.7%
- Rhode Island — 12.5%
Pennsylvania — 12.5% - Ohio — 12%
- Connecticut — 11.8%
- Michigan — 11.6%
- Maryland — 11.2%
- Massachusetts — 10.3%
- Vermont — 9.8%
- Maine — 9.2%
- New Hampshire — 9%
