The ranking is based on 2015-20 data from the American Hospital Association’s annual survey. Figures represent staffed beds at community hospitals, which account for 85 percent of all hospitals in the U.S.
Nationwide, there were 2.38 hospital beds per 1,000 people.
Here’s how each state and the District of Columbia stack up:
Note: The list includes ties and results in a numerical listing of 45.
- South Dakota — 4.82 beds per 1,000 residents
- District of Columbia — 4.7
- North Dakota — 4.31
- Mississippi — 3.99
- West Virginia — 3.52
- Montana — 3.46
- Nebraska — 3.38
- Wyoming — 3.35
- Louisiana — 3.25
- Kansas — 3.19
- Kentucky — 3.17
- Arkansas — 3.16
- Alabama — 3.06
- Missouri — 3.01
- Iowa — 2.85
- Oklahoma — 2.81
- Tennessee — 2.77
- Ohio — 2.73
Pennsylvania — 2.73 - Indiana — 2.71
- Maine — 2.56
- Florida — 2.55
- New York — 2.52
- Illinois — 2.49
- Michigan — 2.43
Minnesota — 2.43 - New Jersey — 2.36
- Georgia — 2.34
- Texas — 2.28
- Massachusetts — 2.25
- Delaware — 2.2
- South Carolina — 2.19
- Alaska — 2.17
- Virginia — 2.1
- Connecticut — 2.09
- Nevada — 2.08
North Carolina — 2.08
Vermont — 2.08
Wisconsin — 2.08 - New Hampshire — 2.04
- Rhode Island — 2
- Arizona — 1.99
- Colorado — 1.91
Idaho — 1.91 - Hawaii — 1.85
- California — 1.84
- Maryland — 1.82
- Utah — 1.8
- New Mexico — 1.79
- Oregon — 1.64
- Washington — 1.58
