diff --git a/airflow/www/views.py b/airflow/www/views.py
index 678d1cc4db3f1..c2b62328c21da 100644
--- a/airflow/www/views.py
+++ b/airflow/www/views.py
@@ -922,7 +922,9 @@ def task_stats(self, session=None):
 
         # Select all task_instances from active dag_runs.
         running_task_instance_query_result = session.query(
-            TaskInstance.dag_id.label('dag_id'), TaskInstance.state.label('state')
+            TaskInstance.dag_id.label('dag_id'),
+            TaskInstance.state.label('state'),
+            sqla.literal(True).label('is_dag_running'),
         ).join(
             running_dag_run_query_result,
             and_(
@@ -946,7 +948,11 @@ def task_stats(self, session=None):
             # Select all task_instances from active dag_runs.
             # If no dag_run is active, return task instances from most recent dag_run.
             last_task_instance_query_result = (
-                session.query(TaskInstance.dag_id.label('dag_id'), TaskInstance.state.label('state'))
+                session.query(
+                    TaskInstance.dag_id.label('dag_id'),
+                    TaskInstance.state.label('state'),
+                    sqla.literal(False).label('is_dag_running'),
+                )
                 .join(TaskInstance.dag_run)
                 .join(
                     last_dag_run,
@@ -963,14 +969,28 @@ def task_stats(self, session=None):
         else:
             final_task_instance_query_result = running_task_instance_query_result.subquery('final_ti')
 
-        qry = session.query(
-            final_task_instance_query_result.c.dag_id,
-            final_task_instance_query_result.c.state,
-            sqla.func.count(),
-        ).group_by(final_task_instance_query_result.c.dag_id, final_task_instance_query_result.c.state)
+        qry = (
+            session.query(
+                final_task_instance_query_result.c.dag_id,
+                final_task_instance_query_result.c.state,
+                final_task_instance_query_result.c.is_dag_running,
+                sqla.func.count(),
+            )
+            .group_by(
+                final_task_instance_query_result.c.dag_id,
+                final_task_instance_query_result.c.state,
+                final_task_instance_query_result.c.is_dag_running,
+            )
+            .order_by(final_task_instance_query_result.c.is_dag_running.desc())
+        )
 
         data = {}
-        for dag_id, state, count in qry:
+        has_running_dags = False
+        for dag_id, state, is_dag_running, count in qry:
+            if is_dag_running:
+                has_running_dags = True
+            elif has_running_dags:
+                break
             if dag_id not in data:
                 data[dag_id] = {}
             data[dag_id][state] = count