The data presented below is strictly for comparison between states. Whatever conclusions you might draw are strictly your own. I crunched the numbers to satisfy my own curiosity about a couple of things that come up on the news and in debates from time to time. The “Unlawful Deaths” column contains data pertaining to murder and non-negligent manslaughter. The color-coded cells represent:
- Blue – Democrat / Liberal
- Red – Republican / Conservative
- Purple – Both parties (ie a Republican governor and Democrat House)
I’d love to say that the table is sortable, but Word Press doesn’t support Javascript at present so I’m unable to add the JS library to make it work. If you wish to copy the table into a spreadsheet, feel free. I cobbled the information together by scraping it off the web and pasting it into a Libre Office Calc spreadsheet. Links to my sources are below the table.
| State | Population estimate, July 1, 2019 |
Unlawful Deaths Per Capita |
Pct Hispanic | Pct Black | Pct White | Believe In God With Certainty |
2019 Poverty Rate |
State Political Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 4,903,185 | 7.3 | 4.1% | 27.8% | 69.1% | 82% | 15.5% | |
| Alaska | 731,545 | 9.4 | 7.0% | 4.7% | 65.3% | 55% | 10.1% | |
| Arizona | 7,278,717 | 5.0 | 31.4% | 6.0% | 82.8% | 62% | 13.5% | |
| Arkansas | 3,017,825 | 8.0 | 7.4% | 16.7% | 79.1% | 77% | 16.2% | |
| California | 39,512,223 | 4.3 | 39.1% | 7.0% | 72.1% | 55% | 11.8% | |
| Colorado | 5,758,736 | 3.8 | 21.5% | 5.4% | 87.1% | 54% | 9.3% | |
| Connecticut | 3,565,287 | 2.9 | 16.1% | 13.2% | 80% | 61% | 10% | |
| Delaware | 973,764 | 4.9 | 9.3% | 24.4% | 69.5% | 55% | 11.3% | |
| Florida | 21,477,737 | 5.2 | 25.6% | 17.6% | 77.3% | 64% | 12.7% | |
| Georgia | 10,617,423 | 6.2 | 9.6% | 3.5% | 60.5% | 74% | 13.3% | |
| Hawaii | 1,415,872 | 3.4 | 10.5% | 1.2% | 25.6% | 62% | 9.3% | |
| Idaho | 1,787,065 | 2.0 | 12.4% | 15.4% | 93% | 62% | 11.2% | |
| Illinois | 12,671,821 | 6.6 | 17.2% | 11.0% | 76.9% | 61% | 11.5% | |
| Indiana | 6,732,219 | 5.6 | 6.9% | 5.2% | 85.1% | 63% | 11.9% | |
| Iowa | 3,155,070 | 1.9 | 5.9% | 7.4% | 90.7% | 66% | 11.2% | |
| Kansas | 2,913,314 | 3.6 | 11.9% | 9.5% | 86.4% | 66% | 11.4% | |
| Kentucky | 4,467,673 | 4.9 | 3.5% | 33.4% | 87.6% | 75% | 16.4% | |
| Louisiana | 4,648,794 | 11.7 | 5.2% | 2.4% | 62.9% | 75% | 19% | |
| Maine | 1,344,212 | 1.5 | 1.6% | 32.2% | 94.6% | 48% | 10.9% | |
| Maryland | 6,045,680 | 9.0 | 10.1% | 9.0% | 58.8% | 64% | 9% | |
| Massachusetts | 6,949,503 | 2.2 | 11.8% | 15.3% | 80.8% | 40% | 9.4% | |
| Michigan | 9,986,857 | 5.6 | 5.1% | 8.1% | 79.3% | 63% | 13% | |
| Minnesota | 5,639,632 | 2.1 | 5.3% | 38.9% | 84.1% | 56% | 9% | |
| Mississippi | 2,976,149 | 11.2 | 2.9% | 12.9% | 59.1% | 82% | 19.6% | |
| Missouri | 6,137,428 | 9.3 | 4.2% | 1.4% | 83% | 70% | 12.9% | |
| Montana | 1,068,778 | 2.5 | 3.7% | 6.1% | 89% | 64% | 12.6% | |
| Nebraska | 1,934,408 | 2.3 | 10.9% | 11.3% | 88.3% | 66% | 9.9% | |
| Nevada | 3,080,156 | 4.6 | 28.8% | 2.2% | 74.3% | 59% | 12.5% | |
| New Hampshire | 1,359,711 | 2.4 | 3.8% | 15.1% | 93.2% | 43% | 7.3%</td > | |
| New Jersey | 8,882,190 | 2.9 | 20.4% | 3.4% | 72% | 60% | 9.2% | |
| New Mexico | 2,096,829 | 8.6 | 48.8% | 23.1% | 82% | 63% | 18.2% | |
| New York | 19,453,561 | 2.9 | 19.2% | 3.9% | 69.7% | 56% | 13% | |
| North Carolina | 10,488,084 | 6.0 | 9.4% | 14.4% | 70.6% | 73% | 13.6% | |
| North Dakota | 762,062 | 3.1 | 3.5% | 9.2% | 87% | 64% | 10.6% | |
| Ohio | 11,689,100 | 4.6 | 3.7% | 3.0% | 81.9% | 67% | 13.1% | |
| Oklahoma | 3,956,971 | 6.7 | 10.6% | 12.9% | 74.2% | 71% | 15.2% | |
| Oregon | 4,217,737 | 2.8 | 13.1% | 19.1% | 86.8% | 57% | 11.4% | |
| Pennsylvania | 12,801,989 | 5.2 | 7.3% | 9.6% | 81.8% | 61% | 12% | |
| Rhode Island | 1,059,361 | 2.4 | 15.4% | 28.0% | 83.9% | 60% | 10.8% | |
| South Carolina | 5,148,714 | 9.0 | 5.7% | 3.0% | 68.5% | 74% | 13.8% | |
| South Dakota | 884,659 | 1.9 | 3.6% | 18.0% | 84.4% | 69% | 11.9% | |
| Tennessee | 6,833,174 | 7.3 | 5.4% | 13.5% | 78.5% | 78% | 13.9% | |
| Texas | 28,995,881 | 4.9 | 39.4% | 1.9% | 78.8% | 69% | 13.6% | |
| Utah | 3,205,958 | 2.2 | 14.0% | 2.1% | 90.7% | 61% | 8.9% | |
| Vermont | 623,989 | 1.8 | 1.9% | 21.3% | 94.2% | 41% | 10.2% | |
| Virginia | 8,535,519 | 5.0 | 9.3% | 4.8% | 69.5% | 67% | 9.9% | |
| Washington | 7,614,893 | 2.6 | 12.7% | 7.5% | 78.9% | 55% | 9.8% | |
| West Virginia | 1,792,147 | 4.4 | 1.3% | 2.1% | 93.5% | 77% | 16% | |
| Wisconsin | 5,822,434 | 3.0 | 6.9% | 33.5% | 87.1% | 56% | 10.4% | |
| Wyoming | 578,759 | 2.2 | 10.0% | 17.6% | 92.6% | 66% | 10.1% |
- FBI.gov: Crime In The United States
- List of United States state legislatures
- List of U.S. states by Hispanic and Latino population
- United States – White Population Percentage by State
- The Black Alone or in Combination Population in the United States: 2019 (Table #15)
- List of U.S. states and territories by poverty rate
- List of U.S. states and territories by religiosity
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