States Ranked by Population Density (for 2006)

Average Population Density for the USA:   84.64 people per mile
Rank	State	People Per Mile
1	District of Columbia (DC)	9,533.28
2	New Jersey (NJ)	1,176.29
3	Rhode Island (RI)	1,021.64
4	Massachusetts (MA)	821.07
5	Connecticut (CT)	723.39
6	Maryland (MD)	574.56
7	Delaware (DE)	436.78
8	New York (NY)	408.91
9	Florida (FL)	335.45
10	Ohio (OH)	280.31
11	Pennsylvania (PA)	277.59
12	California (CA)	233.76
13	Illinois (IL)	230.86
14	Hawaii (HI)	200.14
15	Virginia (VA)	193.03
16	North Carolina (NC)	181.82
17	Michigan (MI)	177.73
18	Indiana (IN)	176.03
19	Georgia (GA)	161.71
20	New Hampshire (NH)	146.62
21	Tennessee (TN)	146.51
22	South Carolina (SC)	143.52
23	Kentucky (KY)	105.87
24	Wisconsin (WI)	102.31
25	Louisiana (LA)	98.43
26	Washington (WA)	96.11
27	Alabama (AL)	90.63
28	Texas (TX)	89.79
29	Missouri (MO)	84.82
30	West Virginia (VA)	75.52
31	Vermont (VT)	67.45
32	Minnesota (MN)	64.91
33	Mississippi (MS)	62.05
34	Arizona (AZ)	54.26
35	Arkansas (AR)	53.98
36	Iowa (IA)	53.38
37	Oklahoma (OK)	52.12
38	Colorado (CO)	45.83
39	Maine (ME)	42.82
40	Oregon (OR)	38.55
41	Kansas (KS)	33.78
42	Utah (UT)	31.04
43	Nebraska (NE)	23.00
44	Nevada (NV)	22.72
45	Idaho (ID)	17.72
46	New Mexico (NM)	16.11
47	South Dakota (SD)	10.30
48	North Dakota (ND)	9.22
49	Montana (MT)	6.49
50	Wyoming (WY)	5.30
51	Alaska (AK)	1.17

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