Table 6: Army Recruits, Total and per 1000 Youth by State, 2006-2007

The table below shows the total number of active-duty Army recruits,
and the recruitment rate (number of recruits per 1000 youth), for fiscal year
2006 and 2007 for each state. States are ranked according to recruits
per 1000 youth.

These statistics are part of an analysis of recruiting data obtained by NPP from the Department of Defense through a Freedom of Information Act request.

Rank in 2007 Location Number of
Recruits
FY 2007		 Total Army Recruits
per 1000 Youth FY 2007		 Total Army Recruits
per 1000 Youth FY 2006		 Percentage
Change in Rate
- U.S. States 66,456 1.59 1.63 -2.52%
1 Alabama 1,626 2.51 2.35 6.94%
2 Montana 323 2.37 2.39 -0.91%
3 Maine 402 2.34 2.37 -1.35%
4 Oklahoma 1,216 2.32 2.44 -4.88%
5 Arkansas 892 2.30 2.47 -6.83%
6 Texas 7,897 2.25 2.38 -5.64%
7 Nevada 678 2.13 1.81 18.00%
8 North Carolina 2,564 2.13 2.13 -0.05%
9 South Carolina 1,296 2.12 2.13 -0.63%
10 Alaska 222 2.10 2.13 -1.06%
11 Florida 4,829 2.09 1.87 11.90%
12 Georgia 2,729 2.05 1.92 6.45%
13 Missouri 1,661 2.02 2.00 0.83%
14 West Virginia 463 1.97 1.94 1.51%
15 Kansas 810 1.95 2.07 -5.75%
16 Arizona 1,624 1.90 1.85 2.92%
17 Virginia 1,944 1.83 1.80 1.73%
18 Wyoming 139 1.81 1.53 17.98%
19 Idaho 389 1.79 1.73 3.59%
20 Kentucky 988 1.77 1.71 2.99%
21 Oregon 864 1.75 1.87 -6.56%
22 Hawaii 304 1.72 1.94 -11.15%
23 Tennessee 1,368 1.70 1.79 -4.99%
24 Wisconsin 1,335 1.66 1.72 -3.29%
25 Ohio 2,566 1.61 1.62 -0.82%
26 Michigan 2,309 1.60 1.79 -10.63%
27 New Mexico 470 1.59 1.81 -11.85%
28 Colorado 1,026 1.56 1.72 -9.10%
29 Indiana 1,386 1.55 1.96 -20.89%
30 Nebraska 413 1.55 1.68 -7.67%
31 Louisiana 967 1.49 1.32 13.31%
32 Washington 1,269 1.44 1.55 -7.25%
33 New Hampshire 248 1.39 1.61 -13.38%
34 Iowa 604 1.37 1.53 -10.38%
35 Mississippi 583 1.33 1.31 1.99%
36 Illinois 2,423 1.32 1.41 -6.21%
37 Pennsylvania 2,211 1.28 1.20 6.09%
38 Maryland 914 1.17 1.45 -19.36%
39 South Dakota 138 1.17 1.52 -22.95%
40 New York 3,042 1.10 1.23 -10.11%
41 California 5,808 1.07 1.21 -11.86%
42 Rhode Island 160 1.00 0.95 5.65%
43 Minnesota 674 0.90 0.99 -8.97%
44 Massachusetts 773 0.86 0.91 -5.52%
45 New Jersey 946 0.83 0.83 0.68%
46 Vermont 73 0.82 0.92 -11.39%
47 Delaware 97 0.82 0.89 -8.85%
48 Connecticut 364 0.77 0.83 -6.58%
49 Utah 321 0.73 0.91 -20.42%
50 North Dakota 69 0.64 1.02 -37.63%
51 District of Columbia 39 0.43 0.89 -51.74%
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Comments

Looking for more stats

Wed, 03/19/2008 - 20:07 — Traci (not verified)

For anyone that happens to read this, I am in the process of looking for enlistment related statistics specifically for Utah such as the ratio of men to women, socioeconomic status, historical trends etc. I am not sure where to look and I have already spent a great deal of time on the DoD website, Utah.gov and even the SLC MEPs website. If anyone has any information where I could go to find data for Utah please let me know!
tkstrong@hotmail.com

Concern?

Mon, 02/18/2008 - 10:21 — Ann Garrison (not verified)

I'm curious as to what your concern is.

Do you think the DOD is misrepresenting these statistics?

That Utah is not what it seems to be?

Or that Utah is misrepresented by the press? If so, how?

Utah recruits

Wed, 02/27/2008 - 01:32 — Tom Iarossi (not verified)

As a political progressive from California I will admit that I am quick to find things wrong with conservatives, but in this case I am honestly puzzled by the disconnect between support for the war and Bush on the one hand and the low rate of military enlistments from Utah on the other. The Army has lowered its standards to shocking levels - prior drug use, gang affiliation, felony convictions, high school dropouts - in an effort to recruit enough people to perform all of its missions, yet in Utah there is this huge group of young, smart, well-educated men and women who for whatever reason refuse to serve. I'm a 57-year-old grandfather who is serving again 38 years after I first enlisted.

I consider it hypocritical to the extreme for Utahns to be so supportive of the war while basically expecting someone else to do the dirty work. It's like the old adage - do as I say, not as I do. The best way to support the troops is to become one of us. Until then it's so much empty rhetoric.

Sorry for climbing on the soapbox. I feel pretty strongly about this and so far no one in Utah has a good answer for me.

Mormons and Military

Mon, 02/11/2008 - 15:00 — Anonymous (not verified)

Tom, the reason really is the mormon faith. Their focus is high school, mormon mission, marriage, kids, work, education. I've seen it all too frequently in my 17 years here, both as an AF active duty and retiree, and with 3 kids going thru the Utah school experience. Mormon support of the military ends with red ticket votes and yellow car ribbons. Male mormons just don't support the military, that's a gentile's job.

I agree

Fri, 02/08/2008 - 03:14 — Traci (not verified)

Actually I am focusing a senior research project on this very same question! I am also a vet (Navy, 4 years) and I was born and raised in Utah. It is a very interesting questions that I hope to provide some answers to...

Utah Hypocricy

Wed, 01/23/2008 - 13:28 — Tom Iarossi (not verified)

I'm a Vietnam veteran and a member of the Army National Guard. Although I'm 57 years old, I've been back on active duty for four years now. I'm proud of what I do, even though I completely disagree with the war in Iraq.

My issue is this: I'm currently stationed in Utah, considered the reddest of red states and the place where George Bush, and the war, garner the greatest support. If support for the war is so great here, why does Utah have one of the lowest rates of active duty enlistment in the nation?

A common answer from Utahns is that the young men of Utah go on 2-year missions for the LDS church. I fail to see any connection between that and military enlistment. Anyone have a more valid reason for this discrepancy?