Final 2025 Open Enrollment Report: Demographics & Dental Plans

Next up: Age brackets, gender, racial/ethnic groups and urban/rural communities. I'm also throwing in the stand-alone Dental Plan table here for the heck of it since I don't know where else to include it.

I don't have a ton to say about any of these, really. 10.6% of ACA exchange enrollees are children; 38.2% are under 35. It's also always interesting to me to see that 1.7% of ACA exchange enrollees are 65 or older.

Alabama has the lowest percent of enrollees under 18 (3.6%), while Utah has the highest (27.8%) which I guess makes sense since Utah has the youngest median-aged population in the country. Similarly, Utah has the highest percent of enrollees under 35 (58.6%) vs. Hawaii's 26.2% (lowest).

The gender split is 52% female to 48% male.

The Hispanic and Rural/Urban data isn't terribly useful at the national level since it isn't reported for any of the state-based exchanges, and even for the racial breakout, fully 50% of all enrollees are listed as "Unknown, Non-Hispanic" which kind of limits any conclusions you might take from any of it. What is interesting, however, is that the Musk/Trump Regime is still including the racial/ethnic demographic data at all, which is a bit surprising given that they've been purging this type of "woke" data from every other federal healthcare database. Huh. Glad to see it (for now, at least).

Over 2.85 million Americans selected standalone dental policies, up over 11% from last year. 

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