There was a decision made to discover what the 'Most Drunk State' in the U.S. is. They based their findings on excessive drinking data from the 2020 Country Health Rankings & Roadmaps, released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. They looked at the percentage of men and women 18 and over who report excessive drinking, as well as health outcomes like driving deaths that are alcohol related and more. Many of the states with the highest drinking rates were located in the Midwest, including all of the top six. Seven of the 10 states with the lowest excessive drinking rates are in the South. Overall, Wisconsin in the drunkest state in the U.S., with 24.2% of adults drinking excessively. Madison is the drunkest metro area in Wisconsin, with 27.8% of adults drinking excessively.
South Carolina is #33 with 17.4% of adults drinking excessively. The drunkest metro is Charleston-North Charleston:21.0% (64th highest among all 384 metro areas)
Top Ten Drunkest States in the U.S.
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- Wisconsin
- North Dakota
- Iowa
- Nebraska
- Minnesota
- Illinois
- Massachusetts
- Alaska
- Hawaii
- Montana
- Not all that surprising is the least drunk state in the U.S., which is Utah, where only 12.2% of adults drink excessively.