OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2020

Table 1. Beneficiaries as a percentage of the total resident population and of the population aged 65 or older, by state, December 2020
State Total population Population aged 65 or older
Number a Percentage receiving benefits Number a Percentage receiving benefits
United States 329,484,123 19.2 55,659,365 87.3
Alabama 4,921,532 23.7 874,244 91.7
Alaska 731,158 14.8 95,876 85.6
Arizona 7,421,401 19.3 1,373,975 82.9
Arkansas 3,030,522 23.4 536,306 91.1
California 39,368,078 15.6 5,976,166 83.0
Colorado 5,807,719 15.8 876,387 84.5
Connecticut 3,557,006 19.6 645,996 86.5
Delaware 986,809 22.8 197,594 89.6
District of Columbia 712,816 11.7 89,833 70.4
Florida 21,733,312 22.3 4,638,094 82.6
Georgia 10,710,017 17.8 1,574,667 88.3
Hawaii 1,407,006 20.1 275,080 86.0
Idaho 1,826,913 20.3 305,994 93.8
Illinois 12,587,530 18.1 2,089,234 85.1
Indiana 6,754,953 20.5 1,115,285 92.3
Iowa 3,163,561 21.0 566,136 92.8
Kansas 2,913,805 19.5 488,316 90.4
Kentucky 4,477,251 22.5 770,835 89.9
Louisiana 4,645,318 19.9 763,750 85.3
Maine 1,350,141 26.3 293,776 91.1
Maryland 6,055,802 17.0 987,352 82.2
Massachusetts 6,893,574 18.8 1,198,402 83.6
Michigan 9,966,555 22.6 1,812,441 92.0
Minnesota 5,657,342 18.9 948,841 90.1
Mississippi 2,966,786 23.0 499,955 92.7
Missouri 6,151,548 21.5 1,089,714 89.3
Montana 1,080,577 22.7 213,392 90.9
Nebraska 1,937,552 18.4 319,437 89.0
Nevada 3,138,259 18.0 519,316 85.5
New Hampshire 1,366,275 23.2 263,129 92.2
New Jersey 8,882,371 18.6 1,510,028 87.4
New Mexico 2,106,319 21.5 389,911 87.3
New York 19,336,776 19.0 3,369,569 84.7
North Carolina 10,600,823 20.6 1,814,542 90.0
North Dakota 765,309 18.1 123,141 90.1
Ohio 11,693,217 20.6 2,097,638 86.6
Oklahoma 3,980,783 20.4 653,159 90.7
Oregon 4,241,507 21.4 789,527 91.9
Pennsylvania 12,783,254 22.5 2,447,687 90.5
Rhode Island 1,057,125 21.8 192,477 90.6
South Carolina 5,218,040 22.9 976,375 91.4
South Dakota 892,717 20.8 157,177 95.3
Tennessee 6,886,834 21.7 1,180,543 91.9
Texas 29,360,759 15.1 3,873,683 86.9
Utah 3,249,879 13.2 381,593 88.0
Vermont 623,347 25.0 128,594 93.9
Virginia 8,590,563 18.5 1,401,044 87.4
Washington 7,693,612 18.2 1,247,874 89.6
West Virginia 1,784,787 26.9 373,569 90.7
Wisconsin 5,832,655 21.9 1,047,935 94.4
Wyoming 582,328 20.3 103,776 89.4
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Master Beneficiary Record, 100 percent data; U.S. Postal Service geographic data; and Census Bureau, Population Division, 2020 estimates of resident population.
a. Population estimates for the United States as of July 1, 2020, as reported by the Census Bureau.
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