OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2025

Table 1. Beneficiaries as a percentage of the total resident population and of the population aged 65 or older, by state, December 2025
State Total population Population aged 65 or older
Number a Percentage receiving benefits Number a Percentage receiving benefits
United States 341,784,857 20.1 64,617,088 86.6
Alabama 5,193,088 23.3 1,009,814 89.4
Alaska 737,270 16.7 116,192 86.1
Arizona 7,623,818 20.7 1,571,773 83.6
Arkansas 3,114,791 23.7 591,966 92.1
California 39,355,309 17.3 6,901,168 83.7
Colorado 6,012,561 17.2 1,029,188 86.0
Connecticut 3,688,496 20.8 751,845 85.7
Delaware 1,059,952 24.2 241,321 88.7
District of Columbia 693,645 12.7 94,423 75.2
Florida 23,462,518 22.6 5,346,788 82.3
Georgia 11,302,748 18.4 1,884,140 86.6
Hawaii 1,432,820 21.7 324,150 82.9
Idaho 2,029,733 20.7 379,157 91.3
Illinois 12,719,141 19.3 2,379,145 85.2
Indiana 6,973,333 21.1 1,284,435 90.8
Iowa 3,238,387 22.2 649,656 90.7
Kansas 2,977,220 20.6 561,319 89.3
Kentucky 4,606,864 23.0 868,019 90.7
Louisiana 4,618,189 21.5 868,225 87.3
Maine 1,414,874 27.4 347,617 90.2
Maryland 6,265,347 18.1 1,149,859 81.8
Massachusetts 7,154,084 19.7 1,421,793 82.1
Michigan 10,127,884 23.5 2,076,467 91.0
Minnesota 5,830,405 20.4 1,113,573 89.0
Mississippi 2,954,160 24.0 571,344 91.1
Missouri 6,270,541 22.6 1,230,134 90.2
Montana 1,144,694 23.7 253,772 89.2
Nebraska 2,018,006 19.3 368,331 87.4
Nevada 3,282,188 19.2 599,211 86.9
New Hampshire 1,415,342 25.0 325,383 89.1
New Jersey 9,548,215 18.6 1,767,250 84.5
New Mexico 2,125,498 22.9 448,253 86.7
New York 20,002,427 19.6 3,860,551 82.9
North Carolina 11,197,968 21.3 2,119,438 89.4
North Dakota 799,358 19.2 143,139 89.2
Ohio 11,900,510 21.9 2,398,129 87.5
Oklahoma 4,123,288 21.1 741,085 90.1
Oregon 4,273,586 22.6 898,568 90.1
Pennsylvania 13,059,432 23.2 2,799,790 88.2
Rhode Island 1,114,521 22.3 233,061 86.1
South Carolina 5,570,274 23.9 1,173,259 90.3
South Dakota 935,094 22.0 181,082 95.2
Tennessee 7,315,076 21.8 1,360,588 90.6
Texas 31,709,821 15.8 4,711,381 85.9
Utah 3,538,904 13.8 460,179 87.0
Vermont 644,663 26.1 155,289 89.0
Virginia 8,880,107 19.5 1,633,891 86.6
Washington 8,001,020 19.1 1,460,563 88.0
West Virginia 1,766,147 27.3 398,189 91.7
Wisconsin 5,972,787 23.4 1,241,547 92.1
Wyoming 588,753 22.5 121,648 90.3
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Master Beneficiary Record, 100 percent data; U.S. Postal Service geographic data; and Census Bureau, Population Division, 2025 estimates of resident population.
a. Population estimates for the United States as of July 1, 2025, as reported by the Census Bureau.
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