Median age of the whole population from the American Community Survey, youngest first.
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Youngest States, Utah Leads (2026)
Median age of the whole population from the American Community Survey, youngest first.
By The Honest Local · 49 states · every value links to its public source
32 yrsUtah leads with the lowest median age of all 50 states
The top five states
No. 1Utah32 yrsmedian age
No. 2Texas35.6 yrsmedian age
No. 3Alaska35.8 yrsmedian age
No. 4North Dakota35.9 yrsmedian age
No. 5Oklahoma37 yrsmedian age
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Youngest States, all 49
The full ranking
| Place | median age | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utah | 32 yrs |
| 2 | Texas | 35.6 yrs |
| 3 | Alaska | 35.8 yrs |
| 4 | North Dakota | 35.9 yrs |
| 5 | Oklahoma | 37 yrs |
| 6 | Nebraska | 37.2 yrs |
| 7 | Idaho | 37.3 yrs |
| 8 | Kansas | 37.4 yrs |
| 9 | Georgia | 37.6 yrs |
| 10 | Colorado | 37.7 yrs |
| 11 | California | 37.9 yrs |
| 12 | Louisiana | 38 yrs |
| 13 | South Dakota | 38 yrs |
| 14 | Indiana | 38.1 yrs |
| 15 | Washington | 38.3 yrs |
| 16 | Arkansas | 38.5 yrs |
| 17 | Iowa | 38.6 yrs |
| 18 | Mississippi | 38.6 yrs |
| 19 | Minnesota | 38.8 yrs |
| 20 | Tennessee | 38.9 yrs |
| 21 | Arizona | 39 yrs |
| 22 | Illinois | 39 yrs |
| 23 | Missouri | 39 yrs |
| 24 | Virginia | 39 yrs |
| 25 | Wyoming | 39.1 yrs |
| 26 | Kentucky | 39.1 yrs |
| 27 | Nevada | 39.1 yrs |
| 28 | North Carolina | 39.1 yrs |
| 29 | Alabama | 39.3 yrs |
| 30 | New Mexico | 39.4 yrs |
| 31 | Maryland | 39.4 yrs |
| 32 | Ohio | 39.7 yrs |
| 33 | New York | 39.8 yrs |
| 34 | Massachusetts | 40 yrs |
| 35 | New Jersey | 40.1 yrs |
| 36 | South Carolina | 40.2 yrs |
| 37 | Wisconsin | 40.2 yrs |
| 38 | Michigan | 40.2 yrs |
| 39 | Montana | 40.4 yrs |
| 40 | Rhode Island | 40.6 yrs |
| 41 | Hawaii | 40.9 yrs |
| 42 | Pennsylvania | 40.9 yrs |
| 43 | Connecticut | 41.1 yrs |
| 44 | Delaware | 41.6 yrs |
| 45 | Florida | 42.6 yrs |
| 46 | West Virginia | 42.7 yrs |
| 47 | Vermont | 43.1 yrs |
| 48 | New Hampshire | 43.3 yrs |
| 49 | Maine | 44.8 yrs |
Sources and method
How we got this. Median age comes from tape_readings, which src/tape/acs-more.ts reads from the ACS 5-year table-based Summary File, table B01002. Cities and states each rank on their own list, youngest first; a retiree reads the list from the bottom. It refreshes annual.
Rankings by The Honest Local from public data, one page per list, refreshed on each source’s own cycle. Places with no reading are left out rather than estimated. Every value on this page carries its source in the page’s structured data.
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