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Just when you might think that Texas would encompass all of the most heavily locked & loaded counties in America, you would be wrong. Turns out that Alaska has the most heavily-armed county in the country. Texas doesn’t even come close, with its first entry at no. 73 – Harris County with almost 60% (59.1, to be exact) of households that keep firearms around their homes.
Note- The data was compiled by city-data.com with Reddit user Ramesses_Deux creating the graphic map. No source is given for the list compiled by city-data.com.
Top 30:
- Fairbanks borough, AK – 59.1%
- Tooele County, UT – 59.1%
- Nez Perce County, ID – 59.0%
- Armstrong County, PA – 57.6%
- Rapides Parish, LA – 52.8%
- Teller County, CO – 52.3%
- Darlington County, SC – 52.1%
- Franklin County, VT – 51.7%
- Randolph County, NC – 51.1%
- Canyon County, ID – 50.9%
- Anchorage Municipality, AK – 50.0%
- Laramie County, WY – 49.6%
- Davis County, UT – 48.8%
- Yellowstone County, MT – 48.7%
- Franklin County, PA – 48.5%
- Pennington County, SD – 48.5%
- Terrebonne Parish, LA – 47.9%
- Ouachita Parish, LA – 47.6%
- Florence County, SC – 47.6%
- Orange County, VT – 47.0%
- Calcasieu Parish, LA – 46.4%
- Weber County, UT – 46.3%
- Kanawha County, WV – 45.2%
- Ada County, ID – 45.0%
- Pulaski County, AR – 44.7%
- Minnehaha County, SD – 44.7%
- Westmoreland County, PA – 44.0%
- Pinal County, AZ – 43.6%
- St. Tammany Parish, LA – 42.5%
- Caddo Parish, LA – 42.2%
Curious where your area may have ended up? City-Data extends the list to the top 101. For comparison, the 101st ranked county has 24.4% of the population owning a firearm. That’s a pretty big gap and it only goes down from there.
I’d be curious to know the stats for major metropolitans, especially Chicago and NYC.
