About 62% of residents in both Massachusetts and the nation’s capital were vaccinated against the flu, exceeding the national average of 47.2%. In contrast, Mississippi recorded the lowest flu vaccination rate at 33.7%.
For its report, KFF analyzed CDC data on flu vaccination rates for individuals 6 months and older during the 2023-24 flu season.
Here’s how each state and Washington, D.C., compare.
Note: The list includes ties.
- District of Columbia — 62.2%
Massachusetts — 62.2% - Rhode Island — 60.6%
- Maryland — 57.4%
- Vermont — 57.2%
- Connecticut — 56%
- Maine — 55.6%
- New Hampshire — 55.8%
- New Jersey — 52.7%
- Virginia — 52.5%
New York — 52.5% - Minnesota — 51.7%
Washington — 51.7% - Hawaii — 51.1%
- Colorado — 50.8%
- Delaware — 50.3%
- New Mexico — 50.2%
- Iowa — 49.4%
- Wisconsin — 48.9%
- South Dakota — 48.7%
- North Carolina — 48.8%
- Pennsylvania — 48.5%
California — 48.5% - Oregon — 47.7%
- Nebraska — 47.5%
- Michigan — 47%
- Missouri — 46.8%
- Illinois — 46.7%
- Ohio — 46.4%
- Kansas — 46.2%
- Kentucky — 45.1%
- Texas — 45%
- West Virginia — 44.1%
- Indiana — 44%
- Arkansas — 43.9%
- Utah — 43.5%
- South Carolina — 42.8%
- Alaska — 42.1%
- Georgia — 41.4%
- Arizona — 41.1%
- Tennessee — 40.8%
- Oklahoma — 40.6%
- Montana — 40.4%
- Florida — 39.5%
- Louisiana — 38.8%
- Alabama — 38.5%
- Idaho — 37.9%
- Wyoming — 36.4%
- Nevada — 36.2%
- Mississippi — 33.7%
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