US Divorce Statistics through 2009

Rank	State	Divorces per 1000 people	Total number of divorces from January – November/2009
1	Nevada	6.6	16,151
2	Arkansas	5.6	14,907
3	Wyoming	5.2	14,907
4	West Virginia	5.0	8,501
5	Idaho	5.0	7,065
6	Oklahoma	4.6	15,383
7	Kentucky	4.6	18,297
8	Alaska	4.4	2,943
9	Maine	4.3	5,044
10	Florida	4.3	73,860
11	Mississippi	4.2	11,389
12	Colorado	4.2	19,296
13	Alabama	4.2	18,507
14	Washington	4.0	24,064
15	Tennessee	4.0	23,695
16	Montana	4.0	3,505
17	North Carolina	3.9	33,813
18	New Mexico	3.9	7,343
19	Missouri	3.9	21,485
20	Delaware	3.8	3,186
21	Virginia	3.7	25,734
22	New Hampshire	3.7	4,589
23	Hawaii	3.7	(see note below)
24	Kansas	3.6	9,276
25	Utah	3.5	8,890
26	Oregon	3.5	12,210
27	Arizona	3.5	21,224
28	Louisiana	3.4	(see note below)
29	Vermont	3.3	1,823
30	Texas	3.3	74,895
31	Puerto Rico	3.3	13,259
32	Michigan	3.3	29,450
33	South Dakota	3.2	2,385
34	Rhode Island	3.2	3,123
35	Ohio	3.2	34,549
36	Nebraska	3.2	5,226
37		3.2	(see note below)
38	Connecticut	3.1	9,821
39	Wisconsin	3.0	15,745
40	New Jersey	2.8	22,021
41	Minnesota	2.8	(see note below)
42	Maryland	2.8	13,933
43	South Carolina	2.6	11,283
44	Illinois	2.6	30,006
45	North Dakota	2.5	1,525
46	New York	2.5	41,899
47	Iowa	2.5	6,768
48	Pennsylvania	2.3	25,690
49	District of Columbia	2.1	1,209
50	Massachusetts	1.8	11,451

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Notes:

There were incomplete divorce numbers over this period for California, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, and Minnesota. For per capita statistics, the Wall Street Journal used data from the mid-2000s to provide per capita rankings for all but Indiana and California, because data available for these states were at least 20 years old.

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