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U.S. States with More Men than Women

Which states have the greatest ratio of male to female population?
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Last updated: September 13, 2024
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First submittedSeptember 13, 2024
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Men / Women
State
1.110
Alaska
1.044
North Dakota
1.038
South Dakota
1.029
Colorado
1.027
Utah
Men / Women
State
1.026
Wyoming
1.022
Montana
1.014
Washington
1.013
Nevada
1.012
Idaho
25 Comments
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Level 62
Sep 15, 2024
Has nobody taken this yet? Shows 0% on everything!
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Level 77
Sep 15, 2024
So women don't like cold
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Level 65
Sep 15, 2024
Is it because of the difficulties of living isolated?
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Level 73
Sep 24, 2024
I don't think it has anything to do with difficulties. More that women often like the more lively places and big cities. And the solitude less (on average), they like to connect with others.
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Level 74
Nov 28, 2024
Male dominated primary industries like mining, forestry.
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Level 55
Sep 15, 2024
In these 4 minutes you can easily write every single US state... I think the time should be decreased a little, to 2 minutes and 30 seconds for example.
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Level 81
Sep 15, 2024
Agree. I had enough time to list all the states before getting the final answer.
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Level 85
Sep 15, 2024
Maybe too much time allowed . These USA top tens usually have 2 or less minutes.
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Level ∞
Sep 15, 2024
Reduced the time to 1:30. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Level 75
Sep 15, 2024
For people asking why there seems to be a trend towards these Western states, it's a number of factors but the biggest one is the combination of them being largely remote and lowly populated meaning a lot of the blue collar jobs there (especially in Alaska, the Dakotas, and Wyoming) with the coal and oil industries tends to bring in more of both a male and younger population.
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Level 70
Sep 15, 2024
You're so smart :D
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Level 78
Sep 15, 2024
Yeah, the blue collar jobs are a big factor. In Alaska's North Slope Borough, which is where most of the oil extraction is, 62.4% (!) of people are male.
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Level 64
Nov 29, 2024
That's part of the explanation. Another important factor IMHO is that women live longer than men. So in all the states with an ageing population (e.g. Ohio, California, Connecticutt...) you'll have a high proportion of elderly women.
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Level 88
Sep 16, 2024
"Go West, young man. Young woman . . . you just stay East."
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Level 78
Dec 30, 2024
XD
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Level 73
Sep 24, 2024
I thought lets pick the northern ones where it likely colder. And it got me half! Thinking of west would have gotten me the other half.

I think it's peculiar because I can't deal well with warmth, and prefer the cold myself. (As long as you can feel you're fingers and you aren't shaking, it's fine right?). In winter my living room often is 15°c (or even 14) But that is extreme cause I don't respond well to radiator heat. Otherwise it would probably be 16.5 or 17 (while at my dad it is 26°c !!! Have seen atleast 26.7)

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Level 66
Sep 25, 2024
You're all missing the fact that it's still only a slight difference. We women who live in these places are quite happy.
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Level 57
Oct 20, 2024
Most based states
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Level 77
Nov 14, 2024
Shocked I got these all so quickly. Felt like 'guess the rugged outdoorsy states'.
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Level 44
Nov 28, 2024
I lived in a town called Beatty, Nevada. With the goldmines there, men most definitely outnumbered women. It was like 7 men for every woman. It sucked being single there.
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Level 57
Nov 28, 2024
Is there a women to men version of this quiz?
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Level 66
Nov 28, 2024
lol I'm literally just imagining guys wandering around alone in the woods
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Level 68
Nov 28, 2024
Rural, inland, resource extraction based economy got me most of them. Then I started guessing.
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Level 92
Nov 29, 2024
Even though, it has a decent number of workers in the male dominated industries (resource extraction, fishing, agriculture and forestry), I was shocked about Washington.I imagine that less than 10% of jobs are in the aforementioned industries.
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Level 55
Feb 10, 2025
100% first try with 1 spare second, Utah came in clutch