List of U.S. states by vehicles per capita

This is a list of U.S. states by vehicles per capita. Vehicle data are from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics^[1] and population data are from the US Census.^[2]

Data are for the year 2021.

State	Vehicles	Vehicles / person	Miles / vehicle	Mpg
United States	282,366,285	0.850	11,121	24.4
Montana	2,140,014	1.934	6,300	26.7
South Dakota	1,433,044	1.599	6,974	21.4
Wyoming	870,969	1.503	12,741	37.7
Iowa	3,839,312	1.201	8,605	22.5
North Dakota	925,186	1.189	10,004	24.1
Arkansas	3,555,142	1.174	10,809	27.1
Alabama	5,463,966	1.082	14,562	25.9
Idaho	1,976,199	1.038	9,770	25.4
Washington	7,966,147	1.029	7,255	23.9
New Hampshire	1,417,949	1.022	9,260	21.2
Maine	1,387,656	1.006	10,493	24.3
Nebraska	1,933,528	0.984	10,970	24.9
Wisconsin	5,769,058	0.981	11,264	27.7
South Carolina	5,091,679	0.980	11,291	22.4
Kentucky	4,408,730	0.978	10,913	23.2
Minnesota	5,511,960	0.964	10,372	26.0
Tennessee	6,712,722	0.964	12,304	25.6
Michigan	9,556,452	0.952	10,123	23.8
Vermont	614,340	0.949	10,784	25.2
Oregon	4,010,635	0.942	9,186	26.0
Alaska	686,142	0.934	8,383	24.6
Ohio	10,892,377	0.926	10,367	25.3
Indiana	6,241,291	0.916	12,600	26.5
Missouri	5,603,939	0.908	14,238	26.6
Kansas	2,606,313	0.887	12,160	26.3
Virginia	7,652,036	0.884	10,468	21.0
New Mexico	1,862,673	0.880	14,400	27.5
Florida	19,180,165	0.879	11,343	26.4
Colorado	5,096,394	0.877	10,564	25.0
Illinois	11,003,729	0.867	8,863	24.4
Hawaii	1,246,765	0.862	7,998	25.7
Nevada	2,676,143	0.850	10,118	24.1
Utah	2,838,505	0.850	11,851	28.8
Georgia	9,142,656	0.847	13,200	26.6
Oklahoma	3,353,167	0.840	13,349	25.3
Pennsylvania	10,927,881	0.840	9,397	23.7
Louisiana	3,862,490	0.835	14,169	26.7
Arizona	6,064,542	0.834	12,163	26.4
North Carolina	8,707,506	0.824	13,521	25.7
Mississippi	2,385,768	0.809	17,124	24.6
California	31,349,073	0.801	9,915	24.3
Maryland	4,910,674	0.795	11,526	23.9
Texas	23,012,990	0.778	12,386	20.9
Connecticut	2,756,485	0.765	10,517	22.1
Massachusetts	5,207,052	0.745	11,353	24.9
Rhode Island	801,654	0.731	9,388	22.7
West Virginia	1,219,024	0.683	13,190	21.0
New Jersey	6,249,905	0.674	11,788	22.1
District of Columbia	363,287	0.543	8,941	32.6
New York	9,408,796	0.474	11,359	21.7
Delaware	472,175	0.470	21,501	21.9

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