Table 1. Number of persons and percentage of the population receiving optimally fluoridated water through public water systems (PWS) by states, 1992-2000.
| State | People receiving fluoridated water | People served by PWS | 2000 percentage fluoridated |
1992 percentage fluoridated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama• | 3,967,059 | 4,447,100 | 89.2% | 82.6% |
| Alaska | 270,099 | 489,371 | 55.2% | 61.2% |
| Arizona | 2,700,354 | 4,869,065 | 55.5% | 49.9% |
| Arkansas+ | 1,455,767 | 2,431,477 | 59.9% | 58.7% |
| California | 9,551,961 | 33,238,057 | 28.7% | 15.7% |
| Colorado+ | 2,852,386 | 3,708,061 | 76.9% | 81.7% |
| Connecticut | 2,398,386 | 2,701,178 | 88.8% | 85.9% |
| Delaware | 505,747 | 624,923 | 80.9% | 67.4% |
| District of Columbia | 595,000 | 595,000 | 100% | 100% |
| Florida | 9,407494 | 15,033,574 | 62.6% | 58.3% |
| Georgia | 6,161,139 | 6,634,635 | 92.9% | 92.1% |
| Hawaii• | 109,147 | 1,211,537 | 9% | 13% |
| Idaho | 383,720 | 845,780 | 45.4% | 48.3% |
| Illinois | 10,453,837 | 11,192,286 | 93.4% | 95.2% |
| Indiana | 4,232,907 | 4,441,502 | 95.3% | 95.2% |
| Iowa | 2,181,649 | 2,390,661 | 91.3% | 91.4% |
| Kansas | 1,513,306 | 2,421,274 | 62.5% | 58.4% |
| Kentucky | 3,235,053 | 3,367,812 | 96.1% | 100% |
| Louisiana• | 2,375,702 | 4,468,976 | 53.2% | 55.7% |
| Maine | 466,208 | 618,033 | 75.4% | 55.8% |
| Maryland+• | 4,124,953 | 4,547,908 | 90.7% | 85.8% |
| Massachusetts | 3,546,099 | 6,349,097 | 55.8% | 57.0% |
| Michigan | 6,568,151 | 7,242,531 | 90.7% | 88.5% |
| Minnesota | 3,714,465 | 3,780,942 | 98.2% | 93.4% |
| Mississippi | 1,227,722 | 2,665,075 | 46.0% | 48.4% |
| Missouri• | 4,502,722 | 5,595,211 | 80.5% | 71.4% |
| Montana | 143,092 | 645,452 | 22.2% | 25.9% |
| Nebraska+ | 966,262 | 1,243,713 | 77.7% | 62.1% |
| Nevada+ | 1,078,479 | 1,637,105 | 65.9% | 2.1% |
| New Hampshire | 347,007 | 807,438 | 43.0% | 24.0% |
| New Jersey | 1,120,410 | 7,208,514 | 15.5% | 16.2% |
| New Mexico | 1,187,404 | 1,548,084 | 76.7% | 66.2% |
| New York+ | 12,000,000 | 17,690,198 | 67.8% | 69.7% |
| North Carolina | 4,862,220 | 5,837,936 | 83.3% | 78.5% |
| North Dakota | 531,738 | 557,595 | 95.4% | 96.4% |
| Ohio | 8,355,002 | 9,535,188 | 87.6% | 87.9% |
| Oklahoma+ | 2,164,330 | 2,900,000 | 74.6% | 58.0% |
| Oregon | 612,485 | 2,700,000 | 22.7% | 24.8% |
| Pennsylvania | 5,825,328 | 10,750,095 | 54.2% | 50.9% |
| Rhode Island | 842,797 | 989,786 | 85.1% | 100% |
| South Carolina | 3,086,974 | 3,383,434 | 91.2% | 90.0% |
| South Dakota+ | 553,503 | 626,221 | 88.4% | 100% |
| Tennessee | 4,749,493 | 5,025,998 | 94.5% | 92.0% |
| Texas | 11,868,046 | 18,072,680 | 65.7% | 64.0% |
| Utah+• | 43,816 | 2,233,169 | 2.0% | 3.1% |
| Vermont | 240,579 | 443,901 | 54.2% | 57.4% |
| Virginia | 5,677,551 | 6,085,436 | 93.3% | 72.1% |
| Washington+ | 2,844,893 | 4,925,540 | 57.8% | 53.2% |
| West Virginia+ | 1,207,000 | 1,387,000 | 87.0% | 82.1% |
| Wisconsin | 3,108,738 | 3,481,285 | 89.3% | 93.0% |
| Wyoming• | 149,774 | 493,782 | 30.3% | 35.7% |
| Total | 162,067,341 | 246,120,616 | 65.8% | 62.1% |
• Reported PWS population exceeded total state population; PWS population was set to the 2000 U.S. state census of state population
+ Complete data were not available from Water Fluoridation Reporting System; additional information was obtained from states.
Source: Populations receiving optimally fluoridated public drinking water — United States, 2000. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 51(07);144-7. February 22, 2002.
See also:
• Statistics by state for 2014 – 2012 – 2006 – 2000 – 1992
• U.S. National Fluoridation Rates by State for Various Years
• U.S. Population Drinking Fluoridated water: 1992-2014
• Calculating Fluoridation Statistics Fact Sheet
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