EV charging by state: the 2026 ranking
Counting chargers is easy; counting them against the people, cars and roads they serve is more useful. Vermont has the most public charging ports per resident, Wyoming has the fewest electric cars competing for each port, and California packs the most fast chargers onto its roads. Louisiana has the fewest ports per resident.
All 50 states and DC
Ranked by public charging ports per 100,000 residents. Click a column heading to sort by it. "EVs per port" is the one where lower is better: fewer cars sharing each charger.
| # | State | Ports | Ports per 100k people | EVs per port | Fast ports per 100k people | Fast ports per 100 road miles | Fast share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vermont | 1,381 | 214 | 8.6 | 51.7 | 2.3 | 24% |
| 2 | California | 70,412 | 179 | 26.2 | 51.0 | 11.3 | 29% |
| 3 | Massachusetts | 11,911 | 166 | 9.6 | 28.0 | 5.4 | 17% |
| 4 | District of Columbia | 1,100 | 159 | 11.7 | 8.6 | 3.9 | 5% |
| 5 | Connecticut | 4,980 | 135 | 9.8 | 20.8 | 3.6 | 15% |
| 6 | Colorado | 8,003 | 133 | 20.3 | 28.6 | 1.9 | 21% |
| 7 | Maine | 1,658 | 117 | 7.2 | 30.9 | 1.9 | 26% |
| 8 | Washington | 9,197 | 115 | 25.7 | 30.0 | 3.0 | 26% |
| 9 | New York | 22,710 | 114 | 9.2 | 17.9 | 3.1 | 16% |
| 10 | Oregon | 4,485 | 105 | 21.9 | 32.9 | 1.8 | 31% |
| 11 | Utah | 3,243 | 92 | 21.1 | 28.9 | 2.1 | 32% |
| 12 | Maryland | 5,694 | 91 | 21.2 | 25.4 | 4.9 | 28% |
| 13 | Nevada | 2,763 | 84 | 31.0 | 36.4 | 2.5 | 43% |
| 14 | Hawaii | 1,154 | 81 | 30.4 | 14.0 | 4.4 | 17% |
| 15 | Rhode Island | 894 | 80 | 11.0 | 13.6 | 2.4 | 17% |
| 16 | New Jersey | 7,306 | 77 | 28.7 | 22.5 | 5.6 | 29% |
| 17 | Delaware | 738 | 70 | 21.7 | 29.3 | 4.7 | 42% |
| 18 | Georgia | 7,691 | 68 | 21.0 | 20.6 | 1.8 | 30% |
| 19 | Florida | 15,366 | 65 | 29.3 | 22.3 | 4.2 | 34% |
| 20 | Arizona | 4,831 | 63 | 29.4 | 20.3 | 2.1 | 32% |
| 21 | Virginia | 5,605 | 63 | 24.1 | 21.1 | 2.5 | 33% |
| 22 | New Mexico | 1,279 | 60 | 13.0 | 29.4 | 0.9 | 49% |
| 23 | Wyoming | 349 | 59 | 5.4 | 31.4 | 0.6 | 53% |
| 24 | New Hampshire | 832 | 59 | 19.4 | 24.7 | 2.1 | 42% |
| 25 | Michigan | 5,838 | 58 | 19.3 | 18.3 | 1.5 | 32% |
| 26 | Minnesota | 3,328 | 57 | 18.0 | 19.1 | 0.8 | 33% |
| 27 | Missouri | 3,353 | 53 | 13.0 | 14.6 | 0.7 | 27% |
| 28 | North Carolina | 5,957 | 53 | 20.3 | 17.2 | 1.8 | 32% |
| 29 | Illinois | 6,369 | 50 | 25.9 | 23.9 | 2.1 | 48% |
| 30 | Kansas | 1,426 | 48 | 13.1 | 12.8 | 0.3 | 27% |
| 31 | Ohio | 5,458 | 46 | 17.3 | 13.1 | 1.3 | 29% |
| 32 | Pennsylvania | 5,948 | 46 | 19.1 | 15.8 | 1.7 | 35% |
| 33 | Tennessee | 3,162 | 43 | 17.5 | 14.6 | 1.1 | 34% |
| 34 | Montana | 489 | 43 | 14.1 | 23.1 | 0.4 | 54% |
| 35 | Iowa | 1,339 | 41 | 11.3 | 18.8 | 0.5 | 46% |
| 36 | Texas | 13,021 | 41 | 29.8 | 17.7 | 1.7 | 43% |
| 37 | Wisconsin | 2,431 | 41 | 17.2 | 16.0 | 0.8 | 39% |
| 38 | South Carolina | 2,205 | 40 | 16.2 | 16.9 | 1.2 | 43% |
| 39 | Nebraska | 796 | 39 | 14.8 | 15.2 | 0.3 | 38% |
| 40 | Oklahoma | 1,609 | 39 | 16.7 | 23.0 | 0.8 | 59% |
| 41 | Idaho | 746 | 37 | 18.9 | 15.6 | 0.5 | 42% |
| 42 | Arkansas | 1,130 | 36 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 0.3 | 26% |
| 43 | South Dakota | 337 | 36 | 8.9 | 17.1 | 0.2 | 47% |
| 44 | North Dakota | 285 | 36 | 6.7 | 18.3 | 0.2 | 51% |
| 45 | Alabama | 1,761 | 34 | 13.9 | 17.7 | 0.9 | 52% |
| 46 | Indiana | 2,242 | 32 | 21.1 | 15.1 | 1.1 | 47% |
| 47 | West Virginia | 561 | 32 | 8.9 | 12.6 | 0.6 | 40% |
| 48 | Alaska | 211 | 29 | 19.4 | 14.0 | 0.6 | 49% |
| 49 | Kentucky | 1,218 | 26 | 17.0 | 10.1 | 0.6 | 38% |
| 50 | Mississippi | 713 | 24 | 10.1 | 11.8 | 0.4 | 49% |
| 51 | Louisiana | 866 | 19 | 26.1 | 9.4 | 0.7 | 50% |
Most ports per resident
Public charging ports per 100,000 people, highest first: Vermont (214), California (179), Massachusetts (166), District of Columbia (159) and Connecticut (135). Lowest: Louisiana (19), Mississippi (24), Kentucky (26), Alaska (29) and West Virginia (32).
Fewest electric cars per port
Registered electric cars per public charging port, fewest first: Wyoming (5.4), North Dakota (6.7), Maine (7.2), Vermont (8.6) and South Dakota (8.9). Most cars per port: Nevada (31.0), Hawaii (30.4), Texas (29.8), Arizona (29.4) and Florida (29.3). The national figure is 21.4.
Most fast charging per mile of road
A road-trip view: DC fast-charging ports per 100 miles of public road, highest first: California (11.3), New Jersey (5.6), Massachusetts (5.4), Maryland (4.9) and Delaware (4.7). Lowest: North Dakota (0.2), South Dakota (0.2), Kansas (0.3), Arkansas (0.3) and Nebraska (0.3). Large rural states rank low on this measure partly because they have so many miles of road to cover.
How this was calculated
- Charging ports: U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center, public locations, pulled 2026-10-03. Level 1, Level 2 and DC fast ports, the same counts as on each state page (they include the small number of sites listed as planned).
- Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates, as of July 1, 2025.
- Electric cars: Alternative Fuels Data Center (National Laboratory of the Rockies, with Experian data), light-duty electric vehicle (EV) registrations. Registrations through 2025, rounded to the nearest 100. No figure is published for Puerto Rico.
- Road length: Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics 2023, Table HM-20 (public road length, miles).
- Puerto Rico is left out of the ranking because no EV registration figure is published for it; its charger counts are on its own page.
- Charger counts change daily; population, registrations and road length are annual figures, so this mixes today's chargers with the latest published denominators.
- Related: NACS charging stations, charger counts in every state.
Data updated 2026-10-03