TABLE 1a: States Ranked by Number of American Indian/Alaska Natives (race alone or in combination*) living in Hard-to-Count (HTC) Census Tracts**
Rank State American American Percent of American Indian/Alaska Indian/Alaska Native Indian/Alaska Native Native population population (alone or population (alone or (alone or in in combination with in combination with combination with other races) living in other races) living in other races) HTC tracts** HTC tracts** 1 Arizona 360,878 245,636 68.1 2 Oklahoma 512,490 228,055 44.5 3 California 719,301 199,314 27.7 4 New Mexico 215,596 169,384 78.6 5 Alaska 141,686 92,990 65.6 6 New York 193,357 89,119 46.1 7 Texas 321,654 76,520 23.8 8 South Dakota 86,811 45,492 52.4 9 North Carolina 190,209 44,277 23.3 10 Montana 81,695 40,779 49.9 11 Washington 206,860 39,598 19.1 12 Wisconsin 92,606 27,893 30.1 13 Colorado 111,240 26,977 24.3 14 Florida 156,000 26,471 17.0 15 Georgia 80,271 21,262 26.5 16 Louisiana 59,279 21,079 35.6 17 North Dakota 47,287 19,237 40.7 18 Ohio 96,544 19,174 19.9 19 Pennsylvania 88,782 19,141 21.6 20 Oregon 117,337 18,109 15.4 21 Illinois 92,173 17,690 19.2 22 New Jersey 61,264 17,087 27.9 23 Nevada 55,498 16,765 30.2 24 Utah 50,536 15,587 30.8 25 Massachusetts 45,803 15,129 33.0 26 Virginia 81,614 13,795 16.9 27 Hawaii 32,989 13,684 41.5 28 Michigan 144,952 11,997 8.3 29 Connecticut 33,311 10,974 32.9 30 Mississippi 23,962 10,858 45.3
TABLE 1a: States Ranked by Number of American Indian/Alaska Natives (race alone or in combination*) living in Hard-to-Count (HTC) Census Tracts**
31 Minnesota 103,666 10,253 9.9 32 Alabama 58,251 9,711 16.7 33 Wyoming 21,235 9,250 43.6 34 Missouri 78,508 8,291 10.6 35 Tennessee 62,985 8,184 13.0 36 Idaho 37,946 8,030 21.2 37 Maryland 58,236 7,301 12.5 38 Nebraska 30,206 6,925 22.9 39 Kansas 61,363 6,386 10.4 40 Arkansas 49,291 6,109 12.4 41 Indiana 54,186 6,000 11.1 42 Rhode Island 13,132 5,212 39.7 43 West Virginia 19,768 4,962 25.1 44 South Carolina 43,007 4,346 10.1 45 Kentucky 32,682 4,098 12.5 46 Maine 22,021 3,586 16.3 47 Iowa 26,907 2,027 7.5 48 New 10,823 1,685 15.6 Hampshire 49 Delaware 8,840 1,572 17.8 50 District of 6,122 1,143 18.7 Columbia 51 Vermont 7,935 946 11.9 Total 5,309,095 1,730,090 32.6 * Anyone who marked American Indian/Alaska Native is included in this table even if they marked another race in addition to American Indian/Alaska Native. Also anyone who marked Hispanic in addition to American Indian/Alaska Native is included in this table. ** In this table, Hard-to-Count Census Tracts are those in the bottom 20 percent of 2010 Census Mail Return Rates (i.e. Mail Return Rates of 73 percent or less) or tracts for which a mail return rate is not applicable because they were enumerated in 2010 using the special Update/Enumerate method.” Source: Population totals in this table are from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2011-2015 American Community Survey estimates.