Top US States on Facebook

Key points

• The United States has over 148 million Facebook users, making it the largest audience globally on the platform
• California leads all states with over 19 million users and penetration close to 52%, meaning roughly half its population is on Facebook
• Texas and New York follow as the only other states exceeding 10 million users, highlighting a sharp drop after the top three
• Many states in the top rankings maintain high penetration rates near 50%, showing widespread adoption beyond just the most populous regions

USA has over 148 million people registered on Facebook which makes it by far the #1 country on Facebook in terms of users.

How does each state perform on Facebook and what is the value of penetration to population?

Find out in the following chart:

As we can clearly see from the chart, California is the leading state with more than 19 million people and penetration to population close to 52 %. That means every second Californian has an account on Facebook. If California were an independent country, it would have placed itself in the 9th position in the world! Right between Mexico and Italy.

The second and third highest numbers of users on Facebook belong to Texas (11 million) and New York (10 million). These are the only states (together with California of course) that conquered the 10-million barrier. The rest of the positions belong to Florida (8.8 million), Illinois (6.2 million), Pennsylvania (5.8 million), Ohio (5.4 million), etc.

An interesting fact is that most of the states in the TOP 20 score quite high values in the penetration to population percentage. This number is very close to 50 % in many states. The only exceptions in the top 20 lists are Arizona (42 %) and Virginia (38 %).

As the total number of users in the US will eventually slowly stagnate, it will be interesting to watch how each state will develop in terms of the total number of users and more importantly – evolution of penetration to population.

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on socialbakers.com. Any statistics or statements included in this article were current at the time of original publication.