ShareThisSlightly more than a third of all persons who died in 2006 were cremated, according to the Cremation Association of North America. But the rate of cremation varies enormously around the nation.
State............ Cremations ..... Deaths ... Percent
Alabama ............ 5,192 ....... 46,977 .... 11.05
Alaska ............. 1,846 ........ 3,354 .... 55.04
Arizona ........... 27,660 ....... 46,365 .... 59.66
Arkansas ........... 5,681 ....... 27,901 .... 20.36
California ....... 119,748 ...... 237,126 .... 50.50
Colorado .......... 17,071 ....... 29,521 .... 57.83
Connecticut ....... 10,890 ....... 29,260 .... 37.22
Delaware ........... 2,382 ........ 7,204 .... 33.06
D.C. ............... 2,044 ........ 5,344 .... 38.26
Florida ........... 88,057 ...... 170,066 .... 51.78
Georgia ........... 14,986 ....... 67,808 .... 22.10
Hawaii ............. 6,188 ........ 9,432 .... 65.60
Idaho .............. 5,122 ....... 10,613 .... 48.26
Illinois .......... 30,202 ...... 102,171 .... 29.56
Indiana ........... 11,908 ....... 55,622 .... 21.88
Iowa ............... 6,384 ....... 27,362 .... 23.33
Kansas ............. 6,853 ....... 24,553 .... 27.91
Kentucky ........... 4,942 ....... 40,102 .... 12.32
Louisiana .......... 6,478 ....... 40,045 .... 16.18
Maine .............. 6,837 ....... 12,294 .... 55.61
Maryland .......... 12,301 ....... 43,582 .... 28.22
Massachusetts ..... 16,649 ....... 53,450 .... 31.15
Michigan .......... 33,231 ....... 86,042 .... 38.62
Minnesota ......... 14,981 ....... 37,028 .... 40.46
Mississippi ........ 2,730 ....... 28,564 ..... 9.56
Missouri .......... 13,577 ....... 54,681 .... 24.83
Montana ............ 5,032 ........ 8,472 .... 59.40
Nebraska ........... 4,216 ....... 14,899 .... 28.30
Nevada ............ 12,911 ....... 18,872 .... 68.41
New Hampshire ...... 5,426 ....... 10,060 .... 53.94
New Jersey ........ 19,533 ....... 70,356 .... 27.76
New Mexico ......... 7,192 ....... 15,296 .... 47.02
New York .......... 41,252 ...... 148,806 .... 27.72
North Carolina .... 18,756 ....... 74,716 .... 25.10
North Dakota ....... 1,130 ........ 5,868 .... 19.26
Ohio .............. 26,464 ...... 106,825 .... 24.77
Oklahoma ........... 8,050 ....... 35,427 .... 22.72
Oregon ............ 20,476 ....... 31,380 .... 65.25
Pennsylvania ...... 36,516 ...... 125,539 .... 29.09
Rhode Island ....... 3,078 ........ 9,690 .... 31.77
South Carolina ..... 8,505 ....... 38,761 .... 21.94
South Dakota ....... 1,473 ........ 7,084 .... 20.79
Tennessee .......... 9,086 ....... 56,838 .... 15.99
Texas ............. 37,342 ...... 157,150 .... 23.76
Utah ............... 3,135 ....... 13,764 .... 22.77
Vermont ............ 2,739 ........ 5,048 .... 54.26
Virginia .......... 15,702 ....... 57,690 .... 27.22
Washington ........ 31,165 ....... 46,120 .... 67.57
West Virginia ...... 3,423 ....... 20,672 .... 16.56
Wisconsin ......... 14,550 ....... 46,153 .... 31.53
Wyoming ............ 2,140 ........ 4,311 .... 49.63
United States .... 813,232 .... 2,426,264 .... 33.52
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com)
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