With the unemployment rate at 6% and around 32% of the population fully vaccinated, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on the States That Are Recovering the Quickest From COVID-19, as well as accompanying videos and audio files.
To identify the states that are having the most successful recoveries, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 22 key metrics. Our data set ranges from the share of the population fully vaccinated to the real GDP vs. pre-COVID levels.
| Recovering the Quickest | Recovering the Slowest |
| 1. South Dakota | 42. Maryland |
| 2. Iowa | 43. Minnesota |
| 3. Idaho | 44. West Virginia |
| 4. Nebraska | 45. Rhode Island |
| 5. Alaska | 46. District of Columbia |
| 6. Utah | 47. Delaware |
| 7. Kansas | 48. Pennsylvania |
| 8. Arkansas | 49. New York |
| 9. Montana | 50. New Jersey |
| 10. Mississippi | 51. Michigan |
Note: Rankings are based on data available as of 12:30 p.m. ET on May 3, 2021.
The State of Indiana ranked #15. To view the full report and your state’s rank, visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-covid-recovery/90947
