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Nashville ranks high for health insurance coverage

Nashville ranks among the places with the best health-insurance coverage, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.

About 14.5 percent of the residents of the city of Nashville do not have health insurance, based on figures from the recently released American Community Survey. That's the 17th-best record among the 70 cities with civilian populations of 250,000 or more.

Honolulu enjoys the most extensive coverage of any major American city, with only 5.25 percent of its residents not under the umbrella of health insurance. Boston, Washington, Seattle and Virginia Beach round out the top five.

The city with the worst record is Dallas, where an estimated 36.97 percent of all people are not covered by health insurance, according to the Census Bureau.

The American Community Survey is an annual program designed to generate data during the years between the Census Bureau's decennial headcounts. The bureau has been releasing 2008 ACS data in stages during the past month.

The following are the 70 major U.S. cities, ranked from the lowest to the highest percentage of residents without health insurance. These rankings are limited to the cities proper, not their metropolitan areas:

* Honolulu, 5.25% without health insurance
* Boston, 5.76% without health insurance
* Washington, 8.05% without health insurance
* Seattle, 9.51% without health insurance
* Virginia Beach, 9.67% without health insurance
* Pittsburgh, 10.34% without health insurance
* San Francisco, 10.39% without health insurance
* Louisville, 11.21% without health insurance
* St. Paul, 11.56% without health insurance
* Lexington, Ky., 12.16% without health insurance
* Buffalo, 12.35% without health insurance
* San Jose, 12.88% without health insurance
* Omaha, 13.97% without health insurance
* Philadelphia, 14.07% without health insurance
* New York City, 14.42% without health insurance
* Wichita, 14.52% without health insurance
* Nashville, 14.56% without health insurance
* Minneapolis, 14.57% without health insurance
* Sacramento, 14.60% without health insurance
* Toledo, 14.63% without health insurance
* Milwaukee, 15.13% without health insurance
* Portland, Ore., 15.48% without health insurance
* Anchorage, 15.72% without health insurance
* Kansas City, 15.78% without health insurance
* Indianapolis, 15.81% without health insurance
* Baltimore, 15.95% without health insurance
* Columbus, Ohio, 16.04% without health insurance
* Raleigh, 16.73% without health insurance
* Colorado Springs, 16.89% without health insurance
* Cincinnati, 16.91% without health insurance
* Bakersfield, Calif., 16.99% without health insurance
* Jacksonville, 17.02% without health insurance
* Albuquerque, 17.21% without health insurance
* Oakland, 17.49% without health insurance
* Charlotte, 17.51% without health insurance
* San Diego, 17.54% without health insurance
* St. Louis, 17.68% without health insurance
* Plano, Texas, 18.28% without health insurance
* Memphis, 18.33% without health insurance
* Long Beach, Calif., 18.75% without health insurance
* Stockton, Calif., 18.84% without health insurance
* Detroit, 18.87% without health insurance
* Cleveland, 19.63% without health insurance
* Chicago, 19.76% without health insurance
* Tampa, 19.85% without health insurance
* Mesa, Ariz., 20.10% without health insurance
* Tucson, 20.38% without health insurance
* Fresno, 20.41% without health insurance
* Oklahoma City, 20.68% without health insurance
* Atlanta, 21.42% without health insurance
* Tulsa, 21.76% without health insurance
* New Orleans, 22.43% without health insurance
* Anaheim, Calif., 22.50% without health insurance
* Denver, 22.56% without health insurance
* Corpus Christi, Texas, 22.57% without health insurance
* Aurora, Colo., 23.27% without health insurance
* Las Vegas, 23.46% without health insurance
* San Antonio, 23.82% without health insurance
* Riverside, Calif., 23.88% without health insurance
* Arlington, Texas, 23.97% without health insurance
* Newark, 24.29% without health insurance
* Austin, 24.38% without health insurance
* Phoenix, 25.22% without health insurance
* Los Angeles, 26.17% without health insurance
* Fort Worth, 26.67% without health insurance
* El Paso, 30.35% without health insurance
* Houston, 30.90% without health insurance
* Santa Ana, Calif., 32.72% without health insurance
* Miami, 34.91% without health insurance
* Dallas, 36.97% without health insurance