Adult obesity rate
Percentage of adults aged 18 and over with obesity, defined as a body mass index of 30 or more calculated from self-reported height and weight. Crude prevalence, not age-adjusted.
United States: CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a telephone survey. Self-reported measurements give lower figures than measured surveys such as NHANES. The national figure pools respondents from the 50 states and DC; a state that did not meet BRFSS data standards in a year (California, Mississippi and Nevada in 2025) has no value and is left out of that year's national figure. Territories are not included. The series starts in 2011, when BRFSS changed its weighting and added cell phones, so earlier estimates are not comparable.
Rankings
US states by adult obesity rate, 2025
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- New Jersey
- Virginia
- Washington
- Arizona
- Tennessee
- Massachusetts
- Indiana
- Missouri
- Maryland
- Colorado
- Wisconsin
- Minnesota
- South Carolina
- Alabama
- Louisiana
- Kentucky
- Oregon
- Oklahoma
- Connecticut
- Utah
- Nevada
- Iowa
- Arkansas
- Kansas
- Mississippi
- New Mexico
- Idaho
- Nebraska
- West Virginia
- Hawaii
- New Hampshire
- Maine
- Montana
- Rhode Island
- Delaware
- South Dakota
- North Dakota
- Alaska
- District of Columbia
- Vermont
- Wyoming
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest adult obesity rate? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"adult_obesity_rate","level":"region","within":"United States"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=adult_obesity_rate&level=region&within=United%20States