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County Health Rankings: National Comparisons

The County Health Rankings identify the healthiest and least healthy counties within every state in the nation. When you compare the 50 healthiest counties (one from every state), with the 50 least healthy counties, some striking trends emerge:

County Health Rankings on Capitol Hill

County Health Rankings Reports

County Health Rankings: What’s New for 2018

The ninth annual County Health Rankings are now live! Get started today by searching for your county or state.

You’ll find new data, resources, and tools across our site to help you to see how healthy your county is and easily move with data to action to improve health. For 2018 we’ve added:

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County Health Roadmaps

Ranking the health of nearly every county in the nation, the County Health Rankings illustrate what we know when it comes to what’s making people sick or healthy. The new County Health Roadmaps show what we can do to create healthier places to live, learn, work and play. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is collaborating with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (UWPHI) to bring this program to cities, counties and states across the nation.

Creating Partnerships with Community Police

Local police departments have a special role to play in improving a community’s health, from reducing violence and preventing crime to supporting strong community partnerships between neighborhoods, residents and community agencies.

How can communities build effective partnerships with their local police departments? What are the challenges and how can these be addressed?...

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Data Changes

Data Spotlight: A new feature to reveal county-level differences in opportunities to thrive

In each of these new features, we will take a key measure, data point, or trend from our research and bring it to life with interactive data visualizations or context to show the realities of life beyond the numbers.