OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2019

Table 1. Beneficiaries as a percentage of the total resident population and of the population aged 65 or older, by state, December 2019
State Total population Population aged 65 or older
Number a Percentage receiving benefits Number a Percentage receiving benefits
United States 328,239,523 19.0 54,058,263 87.7
Alabama 4,903,185 23.6 849,837 92.4
Alaska 731,545 14.3 91,588 85.5
Arizona 7,278,717 19.2 1,308,633 84.2
Arkansas 3,017,804 23.3 523,882 91.6
California 39,512,223 15.4 5,838,115 82.8
Colorado 5,758,736 15.6 842,412 85.0
Connecticut 3,565,287 19.4 630,244 87.3
Delaware 973,764 22.5 188,906 90.4
District of Columbia 705,749 11.9 87,343 71.7
Florida 21,477,737 22.1 4,497,337 82.8
Georgia 10,617,423 17.6 1,516,954 88.9
Hawaii 1,415,872 19.6 268,448 85.6
Idaho 1,787,065 20.1 290,670 94.4
Illinois 12,671,821 17.9 2,043,232 85.8
Indiana 6,732,219 20.4 1,085,743 93.0
Iowa 3,155,070 20.8 552,954 93.3
Kansas 2,913,314 19.3 475,487 90.7
Kentucky 4,467,673 22.4 750,564 90.3
Louisiana 4,648,794 19.8 741,022 86.4
Maine 1,344,212 26.0 285,265 91.0
Maryland 6,045,680 16.9 959,396 82.7
Massachusetts 6,892,503 18.7 1,169,332 84.2
Michigan 9,986,857 22.4 1,765,401 92.7
Minnesota 5,639,632 18.7 920,382 90.7
Mississippi 2,976,149 22.8 486,693 93.4
Missouri 6,137,428 21.4 1,062,037 89.9
Montana 1,068,778 22.4 206,437 90.8
Nebraska 1,934,408 18.2 312,458 89.3
Nevada 3,080,156 17.9 495,972 86.4
New Hampshire 1,359,711 22.9 253,864 92.7
New Jersey 8,882,190 18.5 1,475,535 88.3
New Mexico 2,096,829 21.3 377,606 87.5
New York 19,453,561 18.9 3,296,146 85.5
North Carolina 10,488,084 20.4 1,751,094 90.6
North Dakota 762,062 17.9 119,845 90.7
Ohio 11,689,100 20.4 2,046,320 87.2
Oklahoma 3,956,971 20.3 635,132 91.3
Oregon 4,217,737 21.1 766,080 92.0
Pennsylvania 12,801,989 22.3 2,393,362 91.1
Rhode Island 1,059,361 21.5 187,046 91.3
South Carolina 5,148,714 22.8 937,023 92.2
South Dakota 884,659 20.7 151,871 96.3
Tennessee 6,829,174 21.6 1,143,393 92.5
Texas 28,995,881 15.0 3,734,229 87.3
Utah 3,205,958 13.1 365,872 88.4
Vermont 623,989 24.5 125,039 93.5
Virginia 8,535,519 18.3 1,358,906 87.7
Washington 7,614,893 18.1 1,209,723 89.5
West Virginia 1,792,147 26.7 367,011 90.8
Wisconsin 5,822,434 21.6 1,017,243 94.8
Wyoming 578,759 19.9 99,179 90.1
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Master Beneficiary Record, 100 percent data; U.S. Postal Service geographic data; and Census Bureau, Population Division, 2019 estimates of resident population.
a. Population estimates for the United States as of July 1, 2019, as reported by the Census Bureau.
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