Study: Kentucky has one of the highest percentages of snorers

HENDERSON, Ky (WEHT) – Have you ever been kept up by someone snoring all night? A new study from MattressNextDay uses data to estimate the total number of snorers in each state.

The study uses Statista and Google Search data to analyze the number of people searching “snoring” and “how to stop snoring” to identify the states where individuals are struggling with snoring at night. The study also examined data to determine the percentage of the population to rank each of the states.

Mississippi was at the top of the list, with an estimated 16.8% of adults who snore, or roughly 492,328 people sleeping loudly each night. If you want to have a quieter night, you would have to travel to Alaska, where the study estimates only 10.9% of the population snores.

In the Tri-State, Kentucky was in ranked 6th in the entire nation, with an estimated 15.7% of the adult population snoring, which by the study’s estimates is around 709,330 adults, much higher than Mississippi’s snoring population. Indiana reportedly has 986,766 snoring adults, but these Hoosier snoozers only make up 14.4% of the population, putting it in 18th place. Illinois has an estimated 1,709,430 snoring adults at night, which is over half of the population of Chicago, but only 13.7% of the entire state, putting the Land of Lincoln in 29th place.

Here are the rankings for each state provided by MattressNextDay:

Rank	State	Number of adults who snore and their partner snores (Statista)	Estimated Number of Snorers by State
1	Mississippi	16.8%	492328.7
2	Louisiana	16.4%	746755.0
3	Arkansas	15.9%	487041.2
4	West Virginia	15.9%	280601.0
5	South Carolina	15.7%	843404.3
6	Kentucky	15.7%	709330.9
7	Georgia	15.5%	1710847.1
8	Tennessee	15.5%	1105820.7
9	Alabama	15.4%	785206.9
10	Oklahoma	15.3%	619401.4
11	North Carolina	15.1%	1635641.2
12	Missouri	15.0%	927913.7
13	Florida	14.9%	3376575.0
14	New Mexico	14.8%	312281.6
15	Texas	14.7%	4483541.2
16	Kansas	14.6%	428711.2
17	Nevada	14.5%	465325.6
18	Indiana	14.4%	986766.0
19	California	14.3%	5564944.1
20	Ohio	14.3%	1679931.7
21	Michigan	14.2%	1424362.5
22	Arizona	14.2%	1058399.4
23	Wisconsin	14.2%	838506.7
24	Nebraska	14.1%	278093.2
25	Colorado	14.0%	821597.7
26	Iowa	14.0%	448468.3
27	New York	13.9%	2710056.6
28	Oregon	13.8%	582908.3
29	Illinois	13.7%	1709430.5
30	Virginia	13.7%	1193252.6
31	South Dakota	13.7%	126517.3
32	Pennsylvania	13.6%	1758746.2
33	Washington	13.6%	1064992.5
34	Maryland	13.5%	830885.9
35	North Dakota	13.5%	105379.4
36	New Jersey	13.4%	1240228.6
37	Minnesota	13.4%	766868.2
38	Connecticut	13.3%	482664.3
39	Idaho	13.2%	260535.3
40	Massachusetts	13.0%	906653.5
41	Utah	13.0%	444923.3
42	Rhode Island	12.9%	140672.3
43	Montana	12.8%	145856.9
44	Delaware	12.7%	131062.1
45	Wyoming	12.6%	73493.2
46	Maine	12.5%	174180.3
47	New Hampshire	12.2%	171160.8
48	Vermont	12.1%	78305.9
49	Hawaii	11.9%	170555.3
50	Alaska	10.9%	79895.3