Fact Sheet: Women Veterans Population
October 2009
October 2009
The total veteran population in the United States and Puerto Rico, as of September 2009, was approximately 23 million. The population of women veterans numbered 1,824,198. States with the largest number of women veterans were California, Texas, Florida, Virginia and Georgia. State-by-state totals are as follows:
| Alabama | 34,902 |
Montana | 7,9217 |
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| Alaska | 8,406 |
Nebraska | 11,198 |
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| Arizona | 46,992 |
Nevada | 21,133 |
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| Arkansas | 19,496 |
New Hampshire | 8,793 |
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| California | 167,086 |
New Jersey | 28,438 |
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| Colorado | 37,699 |
New Mexico | 16,379 |
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| Connecticut | 15,297 |
New York | 65,116 |
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| Delaware | 6,365 |
North Carolina | 68,380 |
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| Dist. of Columbia | 3,881 |
North Dakota | 4,567 |
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| Florida | 139,474 |
Ohio | 60,704 |
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| Georgia | 75,198 |
Oklahoma | 26,221 |
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| Hawaii | 11,495 |
Oregon | 25,226 |
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| Idaho | 10,371 |
Pennsylvania | 63,593 |
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| Illinois | 56,656 |
Puerto Rico | 7,216 |
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| Indiana | 33,015 |
Rhode Island | 5,053 |
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| Iowa | 14,744 |
South Carolina | 34,915 |
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| Kansas | 17,844 |
South Dakota | 5,873 |
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| Kentucky | 24,372 |
Tennessee | 38,669 |
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| Louisiana | 26,958 |
Texas | 152,571 |
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| Maine | 10,230 |
Utah | 10,740 |
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| Maryland | 48,615 |
Vermont | 3,696 |
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| Massachusetts | 26,473 |
Virginia | 90,234 |
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| Michigan | 45,371 |
Washington | 55,060 |
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| Minnesota | 23,077 |
West Virginia | 11,700 |
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| Mississippi | 17,723 |
Wisconsin | 28,023 |
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| Missouri | 37,287 |
Wyoming | 4,400 |
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| Territories/Foreign | 9,355 |
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| Total Women Veterans | 1,824,198 |
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Source: Department of Veterans Affairs, VetPop2007, at: http://www.va.gov/vetdata/
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