The document shows percentages and rankings of people born in their state of residence for each US state in 2009 and 2000, as well as the percentage change between those years. Louisiana had the highest percentage in both 2009 (79.2%) and 2000 (79.4%), while Nevada had the lowest in both 2009 (23.2%) and 2000 (21.3%). Nevada also had the largest increase (+9.1%) between 2000-2009, while Maine had the largest decrease (-4.9%).

1. State Percent born Rank Percent born Rank Percent Rank
in state of in state of change
residence residence from
(2009) (2000) 2000-2009
Louisiana 79.2% 1 79.4% 1 -0.2% 13
Michigan 76.0% 2 75.4% 3 0.8% 8
Pennsylvania 75.2% 3 77.7% 2 -3.3% 35
Ohio 75.1% 4 74.7% 5 0.5% 10
Iowa 72.7% 5 74.8% 4 -2.8% 31
Wisconsin 71.9% 6 73.4% 9 -2.1% 26
Mississippi 71.8% 7 74.3% 6 -3.4% 36
West Virginia 71.5% 8 74.2% 7 -3.7% 42
Kentucky 71.1% 9 73.7% 8 -3.5% 40
Alabama 70.9% 10 73.4% 10 -3.4% 37
North Dakota 69.8% 11 72.5% 11 -3.7% 43
Minnesota 69.0% 12 70.2% 12 -1.6% 22
Indiana 68.5% 13 69.3% 13 -1.1% 18
Illinois 66.9% 14 67.1% 17 -0.4% 14
Missouri 66.4% 15 67.8% 15 -2.0% 25
South Dakota 66.1% 16 68.1% 14 -2.9% 32
Nebraska 66.1% 17 67.1% 18 -1.5% 21
New York 64.5% 18 65.3% 20 -1.2% 19
Maine 64.0% 19 67.3% 16 -4.9% 48
Massachusetts 63.8% 20 66.1% 19 -3.4% 39
Utah 62.5% 21 62.9% 25 -0.6% 15
Tennessee 62.1% 22 64.7% 21 -4.0% 45
Oklahoma 61.4% 23 62.6% 26 -1.9% 23
Arkansas 61.1% 24 63.9% 23 -4.3% 46
Texas 60.9% 25 62.2% 27 -2.1% 27
South Carolina 60.2% 26 64.0% 22 -6.0% 50
Rhode Island 59.2% 27 61.4% 28 -3.5% 41
North Carolina 59.2% 28 63.0% 24 -6.1% 51
Kansas 59.1% 29 59.5% 29 -0.7% 16
Connecticut 55.9% 30 57.0% 31 -1.9% 24
Georgia 55.9% 31 57.8% 30 -3.4% 38
Montana 54.4% 32 56.1% 33 -3.0% 33

2. State Percent born Rank Percent born Rank Percent Rank
in state of in state of change
residence residence from
(2009) (2000) 2000-2009
Hawaii 54.0% 33 56.9% 32 -5.0% 49
California 52.9% 34 50.2% 38 5.3% 2
New Jersey 52.6% 35 53.4% 35 -1.4% 20
Vermont 52.2% 36 54.3% 34 -3.8% 44
New Mexico 51.7% 37 51.5% 37 0.3% 11
Virginia 50.5% 38 51.9% 36 -2.8% 30
Maryland 48.0% 39 49.3% 39 -2.7% 29
Washington 47.2% 40 47.2% 42 -0.0% 12
Idaho 46.1% 41 47.2% 41 -2.4% 28
Delaware 46.1% 42 48.3% 40 -4.7% 47
Oregon 45.5% 43 45.3% 43 0.6% 9
Colorado 42.2% 44 41.1% 46 2.7% 6
Wyoming 42.0% 45 42.5% 45 -1.0% 17
New Hampshire 41.9% 46 43.3% 44 -3.0% 34
District of Columbia 40.2% 47 39.2% 47 2.4% 7
Alaska 39.5% 48 38.1% 48 3.7% 5
Arizona 36.2% 49 34.7% 49 4.2% 4
Florida 34.2% 50 32.7% 50 4.5% 3
Nevada 23.2% 51 21.3% 51 9.1% 1