This Is the State Where the Most People Drive Pickups

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Mar 6, 1:00PM EST

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Pickup trucks are extremely popular in America. The best-selling vehicle over the last four decades is Ford’s F-150 pickup. Among the other bestsellers, the Chevy Silverado and the Ram pickups are always near the top. The manufacturers want to keep their tremendous sales as the future of cars shifts to electric engines. Ford recently announced it will have an electric version of the F-150 soon.

iSeeCars, an e-commerce car sales site that produces data about U.S. car and light truck sales, has created a list of pickups based on state sales. It already produces a list of the fastest-selling and slowest-selling cars by month, as well as the cars that stay on the road the longest.

The iSeeCars researchers point out that 15.1% of the cars on American roads today are pickups. Among them, the F-150, Silverado and Ram sold over 480,000 units in the second quarter of this year. The eight models in the Ford F-series range in price from $29,290 to over $73,000. The highest-end model has a built-in generator, leather seats and an expensive sound system.

To determine the states where pickups have the highest ratio of total vehicles sold, iSeeCars looked at 1.5 million sales from July 2020 to June 2021. In terms of unit sales, Texas ranked first. However, in terms of ratio to total sales, it ranked 20th.

The top seven spots were taken by Plains states and Alaska. Each is among the states that cover the most square miles and have the lowest populations. The state with the highest percentage of pickups was Wyoming at 37.2%, while the one with the lowest figure was New Jersey at 7.8%.

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34. Georgia
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 15.6%

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33. North Carolina
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 15.7%

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32. Indiana
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 15.9%

31. Colorado
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 17.1%

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30. Washington
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 17.1%

29. New Hampshire
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 17.3%

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28. South Carolina
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 17.6%

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27. Tennessee
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 17.9%

26. Minnesota
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 17.9%

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25. Missouri
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 18.0%

24. Michigan
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 18.1%

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23. Oregon
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 18.3%

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22. Kansas
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 18.3%

21. Utah
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 18.8%

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20. Texas
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 19.0%

19. Wisconsin
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 19.3%

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18. Kentucky
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 19.4%

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17. Alabama
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 19.5%

16. Iowa
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 20.5%

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15. Louisiana
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 22.1%

14. Nebraska
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 22.2%

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13. Maine
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 22.5%

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12. Mississippi
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 23.0%

11. New Mexico
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 23.1%

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10. West Virginia
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 23.5%

9. Arkansas
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 23.5%

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8. Oklahoma
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 24.2%

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7. Vermont
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 24.2%

6. North Dakota
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 28.5%

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5. Alaska
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 29.5%

4. South Dakota
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 30.2%

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3. Idaho
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 31.1%

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2. Montana
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 34.6%

1. Wyoming
> Pickups as pct. of vehicles: 37.2%

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.