Harmony Healthcare IT recently performed a major analysis of health insurance data from every state as well as the most populous metro areas in the country to find out where the most uninsured Americans live today.
Here’s what they found:
- Millennials are the demographic with the highest percentage of uninsured Americans with more than 6 million millennials between the age of 26 and 34 who are currently without health insurance.
- Among the 17 states with the highest percentage of uninsured residents (10% or more), 11 are located in the South or the Southwest region of the country.
- Texas is home to the highest percentage of uninsured residents with more than 5 million Texans or 18% of population of Texas without health insurance.
- In terms of states with the most insured residents, Massachusetts ranks #1 with only 3% of its population uninsured. Massachusetts is followed by Vermont (4%), Hawaii (4%), Rhode Island (4%) and Minnesota (4%).
Uninsured Americans By State
Listed below is the full breakdown for all 50 states for the number of Americans currently without health insurance:
- Texas (18%) 5,002,893 without health insurance
- Oklahoma (14%) 548,316 without health insurance
- Georgia (14%) 1,411,183 without health insurance
- Florida (13%) 2,782,485 without health insurance
- Alaska (13%) 90,128 without health insurance
- Mississippi (12%) 354,151 without health insurance
- Nevada (11%) 336,191 without health insurance
- Idaho (11%) 192,620 without health insurance
- North Carolina (11%) 1,092,046 without health insurance
- Arizona (11%) 749,977 without health insurance
- South Carolina (11%) 522,459 without health insurance
- Wyoming (11%) 59,337 without health insurance
- Tennessee (10%) 674,865 without health insurance
- Alabama (10%) 481,259 without health insurance
- South Dakota (10%) 84,707 without health insurance
- New Mexico (10%) 196,250 without health insurance
- Missouri (9%) 566,327 without with health insurance
- Utah (9%) 295,364 without health insurance
- Virginia (9%) 731,469 without health insurance
- Kansas (9%) 250,355 without health insurance
- Indiana (8%) 545,123 without health insurance
- Nebraska (8%) 157,612 without health insurance
- Arkansas (8%) 243,585 without health insurance
- Montana (8%) 86,029 without health insurance
- Maine (8%) 106,187 without health insurance
- Louisiana (8%) 363,362 without health insurance
- Colorado (8%) 421,644 without health insurance
- New Jersey (7%) 655,000 without health insurance
- North Dakota (7%) 53,935 without health insurance
- California (7%) 2,825,620 without health insurance
- Oregon (7%) 874,608 without health insurance
- Illinois (7%) 874,608 without health insurance
- Ohio (7%) 743,905 without health insurance
- West Virginia (6%) 114,106 without health insurance
- Washington (6%) 477,284 without health insurance
- Maryland (6%) 356,708 without health insurance
- New Hampshire (6%) 77,011 without health insurance
- Delaware (6%) 53,962 without health insurance
- Kentucky (6%) 247,641 without health insurance
- Wisconsin (6%) 313,158 without health insurance
- Pennsylvania (6%) 699,376 without health insurance
- New York (5%) 1,041,233 without health insurance
- Michigan (5%) 534,551 without health insurance
- Connecticut (5%) 186,923 without health insurance
- Iowa (5%) 147,039 without health insurance
- Minnesota (4%) 244,379 without health insurance
- Rhode Island (4%) 42,482 without health insurance
- Hawaii (4%) 55,799 without health insurance
- Vermont (4%) 24,988 without health insurance
- Massachusetts (3%) 188,907 without health insurance
Uninsured Americans by City
The analysis by Harmony Healthcare IT also analyzed the cities that have the most residents without health insurance. Let’s take a look at the top 15 cities in the United States without health insurance. For clarification cities were defined as Metro areas.
1. McAllen-Edinburgh-Mission, TX (31%) 262,433 residents without health insurance
2. El Paso, TX (22%) 181,737 residents without health insurance
3. Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX (19%) 1,290,120 residents without health insurance
4. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (17%) 1,280,661 residents without health insurance
5. San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX (16%) 383,887 residents without health insurance
6. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL (16%) 934,823 residents without health insurance
7. Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL (14%) 103,890 residents without health insurance
8. Tulsa, OK (13%) 130,001 residents without health insurance
9. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA (13%) 780,907 residents without health insurance
10. Oklahoma City, OK (13%) 180,462 residents without health insurance
11. Sarasota-Bradenton, FL (13%) 103,115 residents without health insurance
12. Austin-Round Rock, TX (13%) 271,445 residents without health insurance
13. Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL (12%) 85,750 residents without health insurance
14. Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL (12%) 312,347 residents without health insurance
Much like the list of the top states, Texas also ranks #1 on the top cities without health insurance with multiple cities in the top 10. On the flip side, Massachusetts also ranked at the top of the list with most residents insured on a city level as well.
Uninsured Millennials
As mentioned above, Millennials are the top demographic nationwide when it comes to people without health insurance. Young Americans are the demographic most impacted by not having health insurance. Recent data shows that a big reason that many Millennials choose not to have health insurance is that they believe they are healthy and do not want to pay the high premiums that come with health insurance. Many also choose to not have health insurance after the affordable health care mandate was changed that fined Americans for not having health insurance. With this mandate no longer in place, many young people decided to ditch their health insurance plans in an effort to save money.
The full report on uninsured Americans by Harmony Healthcare can be seen in the graphic below.
Infographic by: www.harmonyhit.com
