Which States Have The Most Active Missing Persons Cases?

As a persons who investigates missing persons cases on the daily, it seems there are indefinite unsolved cases out there.

In actuality, the number of active missing persons cases, at least in the United States, has decreased year over year. In fact, 2020 saw the lowest number of missing persons since 1990. A positive trend that hopefully will continue.

So, I wondered…which states have the most missing persons? This number can be looked at a couple of different ways.

1. Number of total unsolved missing persons cases.
2. Number of total unsolved missing persons cases per capita (based on population).

Let’s look at the first statistic first. Here is the numerical statistical data from World Population Review giving us the total number of reported missing persons:

California: 2133

Florida: 1252

Texas: 1246

Arizona: 915

Washington: 643

New York: 606

Michigan: 556

Oregon: 432

Pennsylvania: 401

Tennessee: 361

Ohio: 358

North Carolina: 327

Illinois: 317

Missouri: 316

Alaska: 309

New Jersey: 299

Colorado: 292

Louisiana: 266

Oklahoma: 252

Georgia: 250

Kentucky: 248

Virginia: 239

Alabama: 204

Arkansas: 200

Connecticut: 197

Nevada: 192

South Carolina: 184

Maryland: 183

Minnesota: 179

Indiana:174

Wisconsin:149

New Mexico: 143

Massachusetts: 126

West Virginia: 120

Mississippi: 115

Maine: 108

Utah: 107

Hawaii: 107

Idaho: 101

Iowa: 86