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Pillar of the index

Population health

One comparable public-health read, asked the same way of every state.

Every jurisdiction ranked on population health

Population health across the United StatesAlabama: 7 · rank 48Alaska: 29 · rank 40Arizona: 45 · rank 29Arkansas: 11 · rank 47California: 88 · rank 5Colorado: 71 · rank 12Connecticut: 81 · rank 8Delaware: 52 · rank 21District of Columbia: 55 · rank 18Florida: 69 · rank 14Georgia: 34 · rank 36Hawaii: 97 · rank 1Idaho: 51 · rank 22Illinois: 55 · rank 18Indiana: 22 · rank 44Iowa: 50 · rank 25Kansas: 30 · rank 38Kentucky: 22 · rank 44Louisiana: 7 · rank 48Maine: 60 · rank 17Maryland: 71 · rank 12Massachusetts: 96 · rank 2Michigan: 51 · rank 22Minnesota: 77 · rank 10Mississippi: 1 · rank 50Missouri: 30 · rank 38Montana: 46 · rank 28Nebraska: 47 · rank 26Nevada: 38 · rank 33New Hampshire: 80 · rank 9New Jersey: 94 · rank 3New Mexico: 23 · rank 43New York: 90 · rank 4North Carolina: 41 · rank 31North Dakota: 47 · rank 26Ohio: 36 · rank 34Oklahoma: 24 · rank 42Oregon: 51 · rank 22Pennsylvania: 55 · rank 18Rhode Island: 84 · rank 6South Carolina: 31 · rank 37South Dakota: 28 · rank 41Tennessee: no valueTexas: 44 · rank 30Utah: 68 · rank 15Vermont: 83 · rank 7Virginia: 63 · rank 16Washington: 75 · rank 11West Virginia: 22 · rank 44Wisconsin: 41 · rank 31Wyoming: 36 · rank 34
A map sizes states by land area, not by value — Wyoming shouts and Rhode Island vanishes. The ranked list beside it is the reading.
  1. 1HI Hawaii97
  2. 2MA Massachusetts96
  3. 3NJ New Jersey94
  4. 4NY New York90
  5. 5CA California88
  6. 6RI Rhode Island84
  7. 7VT Vermont83
  8. 8CT Connecticut81
  9. 9NH New Hampshire80
  10. 10MN Minnesota77
  11. 11WA Washington75
  12. 12CO Colorado71
  13. 12MD Maryland71
  14. 14FL Florida69
  15. 15UT Utah68
  16. 16VA Virginia63
  17. 17ME Maine60
  18. 18DC Washington, D.C.55
  19. 18IL Illinois55
  20. 18PA Pennsylvania55
  21. 21DE Delaware52
  22. 22MI Michigan51
  23. 22OR Oregon51
  24. 22ID Idaho51
  25. 25IA Iowa50
  26. 26NE Nebraska47
  27. 26ND North Dakota47
  28. 28MT Montana46
  29. 29AZ Arizona45
  30. 30TX Texas44
  31. 31NC North Carolina41
  32. 31WI Wisconsin41
  33. 33NV Nevada38
  34. 34WY Wyoming36
  35. 34OH Ohio36
  36. 36GA Georgia34
  37. 37SC South Carolina31
  38. 38MO Missouri30
  39. 38KS Kansas30
  40. 40AK Alaska29
  41. 41SD South Dakota28
  42. 42OK Oklahoma24
  43. 43NM New Mexico23
  44. 44IN Indiana22
  45. 44KY Kentucky22
  46. 44WV West Virginia22
  47. 47AR Arkansas11
  48. 48AL Alabama7
  49. 48LA Louisiana7
  50. 50MS Mississippi1
  51. —TN TennesseeNot scored — Adult obesity, 2024

What this pillar is built from, and the range behind the score

A percentile says how many jurisdictions a state beats and says nothing about by how much. The population health score is the average of 2 indicators, and below is each one's top and bottom in its own units — the part the rank above deliberately discards. Highest and lowest mean best and worst for economic development, which for some of these series is the lower figure; where an end is shared, the table says how many jurisdictions share it.

IndicatorHighestLowestSource
Adult obesity, 20241 without a published value25.0%Colorado41.4%West VirginiaCDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Firearm-injury deaths per 100,000 (crude)3.9Hawaii27.6MississippiCDC NCIPC, CDC NCIPC 2024

Scores are percentile ranks within the 51 jurisdictions, so they say how many a state beats rather than by how much. Adjacent positions can represent trivial real differences; the state profile prints the underlying figure for every indicator.

The whole index

Population health — every state ranked — Applied America