Where lawyers are easy to find
August 27, 2008
President Bush and many before him have called the United States a nation of laws. Maybe that’s why our capital has 13 times as many lawyers per capita as any state, and 29 times as many as Maryland. The U.S. has more than 1 million attorneys.
| Rank | State (and D.C.) |
Lawyers per 10,000 residents
|
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia |
276.7
|
| 2 | New York |
20.4
|
| 3 | Delaware |
18.0
|
| 4 | Massachusetts |
14.5
|
| 5 | Connecticut |
14.3
|
| 6 | Illinois |
14.0
|
| 7 | Colorado |
13.0
|
| 8 | Georgia |
12.0
|
| 9 | Pennsylvania |
11.9
|
| 10 | Florida, New Jersey (tie) |
11.7
|
| 12 | Minnesota |
11.2
|
| 13 | Louisiana |
11.1
|
| 14 | California, Missouri (tie) |
10.9
|
| 16 | Nevada |
10.4
|
| 17 | Hawaii, Texas, Virginia (tie) |
9.5
|
| 20 | Alabama, Maryland |
9.4
|
Source: Avery Index, from U.S. Census and Martindale-Hubbell statistics; American Bar Association
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