Question: Which U.S. state has the highest ratio of cows to people?
Answer: South Dakota. With about 3.6 million head of cattle and a human population around 920,000, the state’s cattle-to-people ratio runs roughly 4 to 1, the highest in the country. Nebraska is second, followed by North Dakota and Wyoming. The ratio has actually been declining over the past decade (it was closer to 4.6-to-1 back in 2018) as the national cattle herd has shrunk to levels not seen since the early 1950s.
