Healthiest Communities Rankings
Measuring health and wellness across the U.S. using 80 metrics
From US News and World Report (excerpts)
The U.S. News Healthiest Communities rankings measure crucial health-related components of society with the aim of empowering citizens, health care leaders and officials to make decisions about policies and practices that can improve health outcomes for all. Guided by a pioneering framework developed by a committee appointed to advise the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the project scores nearly 3,000 counties on approximately 80 indicators across 10 categories that drive health outcomes. Population health and equity are the most heavily weighted categories, based on the assessments of more than a dozen leading experts on what matters most to a community’s health.
Below are the 2018 rankings of the top 500 Healthiest Communities nationwide, and how they scored across each of the 10 categories on a scale of zero to 100.
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| RANK |
COUNTY |
POP HEALTH |
EQUITY |
EDUCATION |
ECONOMY |
HOUSING |
FOOD & NUTRN |
ENVIRO |
PUB SAF |
COMM VITALITY |
INFRA-STRUCT |
| 106 |
Kauai Co |
88 |
71.2 |
58.4 |
59.7 |
36.6 |
90 |
61.2 |
68.8 |
49.4 |
74.6 |
| 227 |
Maui Co |
89.5 |
49.5 |
63.3 |
66 |
35.3 |
80.8 |
56.3 |
64.1 |
43.6 |
76 |
| 416 |
Hawaii Co |
80.7 |
55.2 |
61 |
47.6 |
33.5 |
85.5 |
62.1 |
65.2 |
53.3 |
54.8 |
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