The same two states were ranked the most and least diverse in last year’s edition.
For the ranking, the financial services company compared all 50 states across six key dimensions: socio-economic diversity, cultural diversity, economic diversity, household diversity, religious diversity and political diversity. The dimensions were evaluated based on 14 relevant metrics. Each state’s weighted average was then calculated using the grades each metric received on a 100-point scale. A full breakdown of the methodology can be found here.
Here are the 10 most and least diverse states in 2024, per the ranking:
Most diverse
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New Mexico
- Hawaii
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New York
- Maryland
- Arizona
Least diverse
- West Virginia
- Maine
- New Hampshire
- Vermont
- Montana
- Kentucky
- Wyoming
- Iowa
- Utah
- North Dakota
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