State Rankings -- Statistical Abstract of the United States RESIDENT POPULATION, PERCENT CHANGE, 2000 to 2008 [When states share the same rank, the next lower rank is omitted. Because of rounded data, states may have identical values shown, but different ranks] Cautionary note State United States Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming SYMBOL X Not applicable Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "Table 2: Cumulative Estimates of Resident Population Change for the United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico and Region and State Rankings: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2008 (NST-EST2008-02); published 22 December 2008; . For more information: http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.php Percent 8.0 4.8 9.5 26.7 6.8 8.5 14.8 2.8 11.4 3.5 14.7 18.3 6.3 17.8 3.9 4.9 2.6 4.2 5.6 -1.3 3.3 6.4 2.3 0.7 6.1 3.3 5.6 7.2 4.2 30.1 6.5 3.2 9.1 2.7 14.6 -0.1 1.2 5.6 10.8 1.4 0.2 11.7 6.5 9.2 16.7 22.5 2.0 9.7 11.1 0.3 4.9 7.9 Rank (X) 32 15 2 21 18 7 39 11 (X) 8 4 25 5 35 31 41 34 28 50 37 24 42 46 26 36 27 20 33 1 23 38 17 40 9 49 45 29 13 44 48 10 22 16 6 3 43 14 12 47 30 19
State Rankings -- Statistical Abstract of the United States RESIDENT POPULATION -- JULY 2007 [When states share the same rank, the next lower rank is omitted. Because of rounded data, states may have identical values shown, but different ranks] Cautionary note State United States Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah 2007 2000 301,621,157 281,424,602 4,627,851 4,447,351 683,478 626,931 6,338,755 5,130,615 2,834,797 2,673,398 36,553,215 33,871,655 4,861,515 4,302,019 3,502,309 3,405,602 864,764 783,600 588,292 572,059 18,251,243 15,982,824 9,544,750 8,186,816 1,283,388 1,211,537 1,499,402 1,293,956 12,852,548 12,419,647 6,345,289 6,080,521 2,988,046 2,926,382 2,775,997 2,688,824 4,241,474 4,042,281 4,293,204 4,468,958 1,317,207 1,274,921 5,618,344 5,296,508 6,449,755 6,349,105 10,071,822 9,938,482 5,197,621 4,919,492 2,918,785 2,844,656 5,878,415 5,596,683 957,861 902,195 1,774,571 1,711,265 2,565,382 1,998,257 1,315,828 1,235,786 8,685,920 8,414,347 1,969,915 1,819,046 19,297,729 18,976,821 9,061,032 8,046,491 639,715 642,200 11,466,917 11,353,145 3,617,316 3,450,654 3,747,455 3,421,436 12,432,792 12,281,054 1,057,832 1,048,319 4,407,709 4,011,816 796,214 754,844 6,156,719 5,689,262 23,904,380 20,851,799 2,645,330 2,233,198 % Change 7.2 4.1 9.0 23.5 6.0 7.9 13.0 2.8 10.4 2.8 14.2 16.6 5.9 15.9 3.5 4.4 2.1 3.2 4.9 -3.9 3.3 6.1 1.6 1.3 5.7 2.6 5.0 6.2 3.7 28.4 6.5 3.2 8.3 1.7 12.6 -0.4 1.0 4.8 9.5 1.2 0.9 9.9 5.5 8.2 14.6 18.5
Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming SYMBOL X Not applicable.
621,254 7,712,091 6,468,424 1,812,035 5,601,640 522,830
608,827 7,079,030 5,894,140 1,808,350 5,363,715 493,782
2.0 8.9 9.7 0.2 4.4 5.9
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "Table 2: Cumulative Estimates of Population Change for the United States, Regions, States and Puerto Rico and Region and State Rankings: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2007 (NST-EST2007-01); published 27 December 2007; . For more information: http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.php