Young Voters by State
California has the highest Voters 18-24 in 2024 (1,621,000), followed by Texas (1,154,000) and New York (646,000). Wyoming has the lowest (22,000).
Voters 18-24, 2024
Darker means higher. Click a place to highlight it.
All 51 ranked
Highest first.
Distribution Median and middle halfThe median is the middle value: half of places are above it, half below. The middle half is the range holding the central 50% of places.More in the glossary →
Each dot is one state; the lines mark the median and the middle half.
Over time · 2014–2024
The top 5 in 2024, against the median.
- Median of all states
- California
- Texas
- New York
- Florida
- Pennsylvania
Data
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| # | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  California | 1,621,000 | 2,560,000 | 53.1% | 16.4M |
| 2 |  Texas | 1,154,000 | 1,712,000 | 41.7% | 11.4M |
| 3 |  New York | 646,000 | 1,087,000 | 41.2% | 8.1M |
| 4 |  Florida | 616,000 | 1,215,000 | 36.8% | 9.7M |
| 5 |  Pennsylvania | 592,000 | 979,000 | 54.0% | 6.8M |
| 6 |  North Carolina | 562,000 | 671,000 | 52.2% | 5M |
| 7 |  Illinois | 558,000 | 744,000 | 49.7% | 5.8M |
| 8 |  Michigan | 483,000 | 829,000 | 58.0% | 5.4M |
| 9 |  Georgia | 440,000 | 733,000 | 49.6% | 4.9M |
| 10 |  Virginia | 405,000 | 657,000 | 53.1% | 4.6M |
| 11 |  Ohio | 386,000 | 895,000 | 40.9% | 5.9M |
| 12 |  New Jersey | 350,000 | 596,000 | 52.4% | 4.6M |
| 13 |  Washington | 347,000 | 648,000 | 49.7% | 3.9M |
| 14 |  Massachusetts | 318,000 | 449,000 | 57.3% | 3.4M |
| 15 |  Minnesota | 315,000 | 412,000 | 66.3% | 3.2M |
| 16 |  Wisconsin | 285,000 | 387,000 | 66.0% | 3.2M |
| 17 |  Colorado | 267,000 | 529,000 | 56.2% | 3M |
| 18 |  Indiana | 257,000 | 398,000 | 48.4% | 2.9M |
| 19 |  Maryland | 243,000 | 474,000 | 59.3% | 3.1M |
| 20 |  Tennessee | 234,000 | 553,000 | 49.1% | 3.4M |
| 21 |  South Carolina | 221,000 | 284,000 | 48.2% | 2.5M |
| 22 |  Missouri | 215,000 | 493,000 | 41.9% | 3.2M |
| 23 |  Arizona | 212,000 | 482,000 | 31.9% | 3.2M |
| 24 |  Utah | 201,000 | 271,000 | 52.4% | 1.6M |
| 25 |  Iowa | 173,000 | 252,000 | 55.7% | 1.7M |
| 26 |  Alabama | 167,000 | 318,000 | 41.6% | 2.2M |
| 27 |  Oklahoma | 158,000 | 226,000 | 34.2% | 1.7M |
| 28 |  Connecticut | 146,000 | 218,000 | 41.1% | 1.7M |
| 29 |  Louisiana | 142,000 | 253,000 | 38.1% | 1.9M |
| 30 |  Kansas | 132,000 | 163,000 | 50.9% | 1.4M |
| 31 |  Oregon | 115,000 | 393,000 | 45.8% | 2.4M |
| 32 |  Nevada | 113,000 | 226,000 | 48.5% | 1.5M |
| 32 |  Arkansas | 113,000 | 142,000 | 37.6% | 1.2M |
| 34 |  Mississippi | 112,000 | 230,000 | 48.6% | 1.5M |
| 35 |  Kentucky | 103,000 | 266,000 | 37.0% | 2.2M |
| 36 |  Idaho | 84,000 | 140,000 | 47.8% | 932K |
| 37 |  New Mexico | 81,000 | 128,000 | 43.8% | 984K |
| 38 |  West Virginia | 73,000 | 107,000 | 48.7% | 807K |
| 39 |  Nebraska | 70,000 | 135,000 | 41.3% | 928K |
| 40 |  New Hampshire | 59,000 | 99,000 | 57.4% | 788K |
| 41 |  Rhode Island | 54,000 | 108,000 | 64.9% | 568K |
| 42 |  Montana | 47,000 | 82,000 | 46.7% | 610K |
| 43 |  District of Columbia | 46,000 | 107,000 | 73.2% | 404K |
| 44 |  Hawaii | 41,000 | 72,000 | 38.3% | 587K |
| 45 |  Delaware | 39,000 | 67,000 | 47.7% | 521K |
| 46 |  North Dakota | 30,000 | 61,000 | 46.0% | 401K |
| 47 |  Vermont | 27,000 | 52,000 | 69.0% | 373K |
| 48 |  Maine | 26,000 | 109,000 | 38.5% | 753K |
| 48 |  South Dakota | 26,000 | 44,000 | 34.9% | 394K |
| 50 |  Alaska | 24,000 | 50,000 | 45.0% | 324K |
| 51 |  Wyoming | 22,000 | 41,000 | 48.2% | 283K |
What correlates with Voters 18-24 (2024)?
Pearson r against 2,062 other state metrics sharing at least 31 states. Ranks are read by standing: a better rank counts as higher, whether rank 1 is the best place on a list or the worst. Correlation is not causation.
Higher together
Places that have a higher Voters 18-24 tend to score higher on these (or rank better)
Opposite directions
Places that have a higher Voters 18-24 tend to score lower on these (or rank worse)
Quick answers
- Which state has the highest Voters 18-24?
- California has the highest Voters 18-24 in 2024, at 1,621,000, followed by Texas (1,154,000) and New York (646,000).
- Which state has the lowest Voters 18-24?
- Wyoming has the lowest Voters 18-24 in 2024, at 22,000.
- What is the median Voters 18-24 across US states?
- The median is 167,000 across the 51 US states with data in 2024.
- Where does this young voters by state data come from?
- Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: United States Census Bureau - Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2020; KFF - Number of Voters as a Share of the Voter Population, by Age.