These are rates for 2017 -- that's how far behind the reporting of these numbers typically runs. From the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics report, Divorce rates by State: 1990, 1995, and 1999-2017.
|
State |
2017 rate (divorces per 1,000 people) |
|
Illinois |
1.9 |
|
Louisiana |
1.9 |
|
Iowa |
2.0 |
|
Massachusetts |
2.2 |
|
Texas |
2.2 |
|
Kansas |
2.4 |
|
Wisconsin |
2.4 |
|
District of Columbia |
2.5 |
|
Maryland |
2.5 |
|
North Dakota |
2.5 |
|
New Jersey |
2.6 |
|
Pennsylvania |
2.6 |
|
South Carolina |
2.6 |
|
New York |
2.7 |
|
South Dakota |
2.7 |
|
Michigan |
2.8 |
|
Connecticut |
2.9 |
|
Mississippi |
2.9 |
|
UNITED STATES |
2.9 |
|
Ohio |
2.9 |
|
Rhode Island |
2.9 |
|
Vermont |
2.9 |
|
Delaware |
3.0 |
|
Nebraska |
3.0 |
|
Virginia |
3.0 |
|
Missouri |
3.1 |
|
Montana |
3.1 |
|
New Hampshire |
3.1 |
|
North Carolina |
3.1 |
|
Colorado |
3.2 |
|
Maine |
3.2 |
|
Oregon |
3.4 |
|
Utah |
3.4 |
|
Washington |
3.4 |
|
Arizona |
3.5 |
|
Georgia |
3.5 |
|
Tennessee |
3.5 |
|
West Virginia |
3.5 |
|
Alaska |
3.6 |
|
Florida |
3.6 |
|
Alabama |
3.7 |
|
Arkansas |
3.7 |
|
Kentucky |
3.7 |
|
Idaho |
3.9 |
|
Wyoming |
4.0 |
|
Oklahoma |
4.1 |
|
Nevada |
4.5 |
|
California |
Not counted |
|
Hawaii |
Not counted |
|
Indiana |
Not counted |
|
Minnesota |
Not counted |
|
New Mexico |
Not counted |
These are per capita rates, i.e., compared to the entire population of all ages, whether married or not. They are expressed in per-thousand, even though pretty much everything else is described in percent.
These rates have always made more sense to me if you double them, because there are two people in every divorce and every marriage. So "2.9 per 1,000" means 0.29% divorces-per-capita, but it means 0.58% of us got divorced in 2017.
This was computed without any information from California,Hawaii, Indiana, Minnesota, or New Mexico; those states did not count their divorces for 2017.
See also: Marriage rates by State: 1990, 1995, and 1999-2017
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