OCSS Table P-64 FY2023 preliminary

States with Highest Share of Cases with Support Orders

Order coverage across 51 states with 1,000+ active cases: 64.1% to 95.1%, cohort median 86.6%. This is the share of a Title IV-D caseload with an enforceable support order on file - not a collection rate, and not an outcome for any individual case.

Definitions & vintage All rankings
86.6%
cohort median
31 pts
observed spread
1,000+
case floor
51
states included

Order coverage, not collections

Alaska leads this cohort at 95.1% of cases with a support order, 31 points above the lowest included state and 8.5 points above the 86.6% median.

According to HHS OCSS FY2023 preliminary Table P-64 as loaded on PlainChildSupport.

95.1%
Alaska · highest share
86.6%
cohort median (P-64)
31 pts
high–low spread
0
states under 1,000 cases

Smallest included caseload: 11,412 active cases. Collections dollars appear in the table as context only.

Highest order-coverage shares

1. Alaska95.1%2. Maine94.8%3. Wyoming94.8%4. Connecticut94.4%5. Iowa94.1%6. Indiana93.8%7. Ohio93.1%8. Arizona92.7%9. New Hampshire91.7%10. New Jersey91.6%
Top 10 states by share of Title IV-D cases with a support order (OCSS Table P-64)

Median vs cohort leader

Descriptive ratio - not a performance grade

0%100%91.1%
Cohort median as a share of the leader (95.1%)

What do cases with orders measure?

According to the Office of Child Support Services (OCSS) FY2023 preliminary data report, published in January 2024, nearly 11,900,000 Title IV-D child support cases were open across the 51 jurisdictions tracked here. Table P-64 of that report discloses the share of each state’s Title IV-D caseload carrying an enforceable support order. We include only states with at least 1,000 active cases. Collections and total cases are supplied as context, not inputs to the order-share rank. We do not publish a per-state collection rate because that is not a column in the preliminary report we parse. See our methodology for source vintage and extraction details.

Leading trio: 1. Alaska 95.1% · 2. Maine 94.8% · 3. Wyoming 94.8%. Lowest included trio: Arkansas 64.1% · Rhode Island 73.9% · Delaware 76.4%. Data updated September 2026.

Full state ranking

Sorted from highest to lowest cases-with-orders share.

51 states included

# State Cases with Orders %
1 Alaska 95.1%
2 Maine 94.8%
3 Wyoming 94.8%
4 Connecticut 94.4%
5 Iowa 94.1%
6 Indiana 93.8%
7 Ohio 93.1%
8 Arizona 92.7%
9 New Hampshire 91.7%
10 New Jersey 91.6%
11 Pennsylvania 91.5%
12 Idaho 91.2%
13 West Virginia 91.1%
14 Washington 91.0%
15 Alabama 90.4%
16 Vermont 89.9%
17 Nevada 89.6%
18 Georgia 89.5%
19 Louisiana 89.1%
20 Kentucky 88.9%
21 North Dakota 88.8%
22 Virginia 88.3%
23 New York 88.2%
24 California 87.9%
25 Maryland 86.6%
26 Oregon 86.6%
27 Montana 86.2%
28 Colorado 85.9%
29 Nebraska 85.9%
30 Texas 85.8%
31 Mississippi 85.7%
32 North Carolina 85.2%
33 Illinois 85.1%
34 Kansas 85.1%
35 Wisconsin 85.1%
36 Missouri 84.6%
37 New Mexico 84.6%
38 Minnesota 84.5%
39 Tennessee 84.2%
40 Hawaii 83.7%
41 South Carolina 83.0%
42 Massachusetts 82.7%
43 Oklahoma 82.3%
44 South Dakota 82.0%
45 Utah 81.2%
46 Florida 80.5%
47 District of Columbia 76.9%
48 Michigan 76.9%
49 Delaware 76.4%
50 Rhode Island 73.9%
51 Arkansas 64.1%

Source: HHS Office of Child Support Services FY2023 preliminary report, Table P-64 (cases with orders). This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice

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