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This is a list of U.S. states by population (with inhabited non-state jurisdictions included for comparison) as of April 1, 2010, the date of the 2010 United States Census. The nine most populous states contain slightly more than half of the total population. The 25 least populous states contain less than one-sixth of the total population.

Rank in the Fifty States	Rank in all states & terri- tories	State or territory	Census population,									Percent of total U.S. population
1	1	California	37,253,956									11.91%
2	2	Texas	25,145,561									8.04%
3	3	New York	19,378,102									6.19%
4	4	Florida	18,801,310									6.01%
5	5	Illinois	12,830,632									4.10%
6	6	Pennsylvania	12,702,379									4.06%
7	7	Ohio	11,536,504									3.69%
8	8	Michigan	9,883,640									3.16%
9	9	Georgia	9,687,653									3.10%
10	10	North Carolina	9,535,483									3.05%
11	11	New Jersey	8,791,894									2.81%
12	12	Virginia	8,001,024									2.56%
13	13	Washington	6,724,540									2.15%
14	14	Massachusetts	6,547,629									2.04%
15	15	Indiana	6,483,802									2.07%
16	16	Arizona	6,392,017									2.04%
17	17	Tennessee	6,346,105									2.03%
18	18	Missouri	5,988,927									1.91%
19	19	Maryland	5,773,552									1.85%
20	20	Wisconsin	5,686,986									1.82%
21	21	Minnesota	5,303,925									1.70%
22	22	Colorado	5,029,196									1.61%
23	23	Alabama	4,779,736									1.53%
24	24	South Carolina	4,625,364									1.48%
25	25	Louisiana	4,533,372									1.45%
26	26	Kentucky	4,339,367									1.39%
27	27	Oregon	3,831,074									1.22%
28	28	Oklahoma	3,751,351									1.20%
†	29	Puerto Rico	3,725,789									1.19%
29	30	Connecticut	3,574,097									1.14%
30	31	Iowa	3,046,355									0.97%
31	32	Mississippi	2,967,297									0.95%
32	33	Arkansas	2,915,918									0.93%
33	34	Kansas	2,853,118									0.91%
34	35	Utah	2,763,885									0.88%
35	36	Nevada	2,700,551									0.86%
36	37	New Mexico	2,059,179									0.66%
37	38	West Virginia	1,852,994									0.59%
38	39	Nebraska	1,826,341									0.58%
39	40	Idaho	1,567,582									0.51%
40	41	Hawaii	1,360,301									0.43%
41	42	Maine	1,328,361									0.42%
42	43	New Hampshire	1,316,470									0.42%
43	44	Rhode Island	1,052,567									0.34%
44	45	Montana	989,415									0.32%
45	46	Delaware	900,877									0.29%
46	47	South Dakota	814,180									0.26%
47	48	Alaska	710,231									0.23%
48	49	North Dakota	672,591									0.21%
49	50	Vermont	625,741									0.20%
	51	Washington, D.C.	601,723									0.19%
50	52	Wyoming	563,626									0.18%
	53	Guam	178,430									0.06%
	54	U.S. Virgin Islands	109,825									0.04%
	55	Northern Mariana Is.	88,662									0.03%
	56	American Samoa	65,628									0.02%
		The Fifty States	308,143,815									98.48%
		50 States + D.C.	308,745,538									98.67%
		Total U.S. territory	312,913,872									100.00%