The place where you lived is an important factor in your life because this explains your health condition how healthy you are. Knowing these key factors really helps to build a healthier community & this is the major step towards your desired resources to be used in a manageable way. This powerful lens also guides us to make some changes geographically to make the community healthier.
A healthy community is the one that is responsible to give access to the community for quality education & safe healthy homes, employment, transportation facilities, physical activities, and nutrition needs. On the other hand, Unhealthy communities are the major cause of diseases, like diabetes, cancers & heart disease.
A healthy community-led towards Better access, Strong community Support, Economic Support, and a healthy environment as well. The US healthiest community ranking 2020 reveals the top 10 healthiest communities nationwide on the base of their improvement towards each of the 10 categories. These improvements empowered the citizens, health care leaders to take steps towards health improvement results. These 10 categories cover all the aspects that are necessary for the overall healthy community. These rankings are based on scored on a scale of 0-10 in each category.
Ranking:
1
County:
Los Alamos County, New Mexico
Population Health: 98.4
Equity: 85.4
Education: 71.2
Economy: 76.1
Housing: 91.3
Food & Nutrition: 58.2
Environment: 91
Public Safety: 88.2
Community Vitality: 71.2
Infrastructure: 86.6
Ranking:
2
County:
Douglas county
Population Health: 95.5
Equity: 63.7
Education: 66.5
Economy: 87.4
Housing: 62
Food & Nutrition: 60.4
Environment: 84.5
Public Safety: 68
Community Vitality: 80.6
Infrastructure: 93.2
Ranking:
3
County:
Falls Church city
Population Health: 98.5
Equity: 45.6
Education: 96.5
Economy: 100
Housing: 34.6
Food & Nutrition: 76.9
Environment: 65.1
Public Safety: 76.8
Community Vitality: 71.3
Infrastructure: 89.4
Ranking:
4
County:
Broomfield County
Population Health: 88.2
Equity: 54.3
Education: 70.6
Economy: 96.2
Housing: 66
Food & Nutrition: 55.9
Environment: 76
Public Safety: 61.5
Community Vitality: 71.8
Infrastructure: 95.4
Ranking:
5
County:
Routt County, Colorado
Population Health: 95.1
Equity: 57
Education: 62.6
Economy: 76
Housing: 62.3
Food & Nutrition: 69.5
Environment: 88.9
Public Safety: 65.1
Community Vitality: 71.1
Infrastructure: 89.1
Ranking:
6
County:
Loudoun County, Virginia
Population Health: 90.2
Equity: 49.7
Education: 82.8
Economy: 90.9
Housing: 52.4
Food & Nutrition: 65.6
Environment: 61.9
Public Safety: 78.6
Community Vitality: 80.2
Infrastructure: 72.7
Ranking:
7
County:
Pitkin County, Colorado
Population Health: 90.3
Equity: 51.1
Education: 60.5
Economy: 75.9
Housing: 56.5
Food & Nutrition: 77.1
Environment: 96.6
Public Safety: 86
Community Vitality: 64.1
Infrastructure: 80.5
Ranking:
8
County:
Carver
Population Health: 86
Equity: 51.6
Education: 79.9
Economy: 97.4
Housing: 70
Food & Nutrition: 44.1
Environment: 71
Public Safety: 67
Community Vitality: 75.3
Infrastructure: 80.9
Ranking:
9
County:
Summit County, Colorado
Population Health: 96.4
Equity: 50.4
Education: 74.4
Economy: 76.1
Housing: 32.8
Food & Nutrition: 67.7
Environment: 100
Public Safety: 75.5
Community Vitality: 61.1
Infrastructure: 93.1
Ranking:
10
County:
San Miguel County, Colorado
Population Health: 89.5
Equity: 41.6
Education: 86.2
Economy: 69.1
Housing: 34.5
Food & Nutrition: 94.6
Environment: 90.9
Public Safety: 73
Community Vitality: 66.6
Infrastructure: 80.7
These top healthiest communities ranking were announced with the alliance of an independent charitable organization called Aetna foundation. The complete ranking is based on the top 500 healthiest communities in which the community stands at no 1 in Los Alamos County, New Mexico and the county stands at last position is Columbia County, New York.
Furthermore in national rankings, peer groups are made on the base of urban-rural status and economic outcomes to know which communities are similar to each other.
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