Note: 1 = Highest rate of adult obesity, 51 = lowest. Rankings are based on combining three years of data (2003-2005) from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Surveillance System to "stabilize" data for comparison purposes. States with statistically significant increases are noted with an asterisk (*).

1: Mississippi*
2: Alabama
3: West Virginia; 4: Louisiana*;
5: Kentucky*
6: Tennessee
7: Arkansas*
8 (tie): Indiana*, South Carolina*
10: Texas
11: Michigan
12: Georgia*
13: Oklahoma*
14: Missouri*
15 (tie): Ohio*, Alaska
17: North Carolina*
18: North Dakota
19: Pennsylvania*
20: Nebraska*
21: Iowa
22: South Dakota*
23: Illinois*
24: Maryland*
25: Virginia
26: Kansas
27: Minnesota
28: Wisconsin*
29: Delaware*
30 California*
31 (tie): Idaho*, Washington*
33: Oregon*
34: Maine
35: Florida*
36 (tie): Wyoming*, New Hampshire*, New York
39: D.C.
40 (tie): New Jersey*, New Mexico*
42: Nevada
43 (tie): Arizona, Utah*
45: Montana
46: Connecticut*
47 (tie): Rhode Island*, Vermont
49: Massachusetts*
50: Hawaii
51: Colorado.