US State Populations
By the end of 2020 US population was approximately 331 million and counting. Below is a list of US states by population, ranked from the largest population to the smallest. Not all the biggest states by area have the most population, although some of the biggest states are home to the most people. Alaska is the US’s largest state per area but one of the lowest in terms of population.
Rank | State | State Population (2019) |
| 1 | California | 39,512,223 |
| 2 | Texas | 28,995,881 |
| 3 | Florida | 21,477,737 |
| 4 | New York | 19,453,561 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | 12,801,989 |
| 6 | Illinois | 12,671,821 |
| 7 | Ohio | 11,689,100 |
| 8 | Georgia | 10,617,423 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 10,488,084 |
| 10 | Michigan | 9,986,857 |
| 11 | New Jersey | 8,882,190 |
| 12 | Virginia | 8,535,519 |
| 13 | Washington | 7,614,893 |
| 14 | Arizona | 7,278,717 |
| 15 | Massachusetts | 6,892,503 |
| 16 | Tennessee | 6,829,174 |
| 17 | Indiana | 6,732,219 |
| 18 | Missouri | 6,137,428 |
| 19 | Maryland | 6,045,680 |
| 20 | Wisconsin | 5,822,434 |
| 21 | Colorado | 5,758,736 |
| 22 | Minnesota | 5,639,632 |
| 23 | South Carolina | 5,148,714 |
| 24 | Alabama | 4,903,185 |
| 25 | Louisiana | 4,648,794 |
| 26 | Kentucky | 4,467,673 |
| 27 | Oregon | 4,217,737 |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 3,956,971 |
| 29 | Connecticut | 3,565,287 |
| 30 | Utah | 3,205,958 |
| 31 | Iowa | 3,155,070 |
| 32 | Nevada | 3,080,156 |
| 33 | Arkansas | 3,017,804 |
| 34 | Mississippi | 2,976,149 |
| 35 | Kansas | 2,913,314 |
| 36 | New Mexico | 2,096,829 |
| 37 | Nebraska | 1,934,408 |
| 38 | West Virginia | 1,792,147 |
| 39 | Idaho | 1,787,065 |
| 40 | Hawaii | 1,415,872 |
| 41 | New Hampshire | 1,359,711 |
| 42 | Maine | 1,344,212 |
| 43 | Montana | 1,068,778 |
| 44 | Rhode Island | 1,059,361 |
| 45 | Delaware | 973,764 |
| 46 | South Dakota | 884,659 |
| 47 | North Dakota | 762,062 |
| 48 | Alaska | 731,545 |
| 49 | Vermont | 623,989 |
| 50 | Wyoming | 578,759 |
Below is a graph where you can easily see US population by state. You can easily see how many more people there are in California, Texas, and Florida as opposed to many of the other US states.
