Health Snapshot (By Jurisdiction)

Health Snapshot — By Jurisdiction

CDC PLACES county health data. Ranked by the share of adults reporting fair or poor health -- how people rate their own health, alongside obesity, diabetes, and frequent mental distress rates for context.

"Fair or poor health" is people describing their own health, not a diagnosis — CDC asks adults to rate it themselves, so it captures more than any single disease count. Obesity, diabetes, and frequent mental distress ride alongside it as context for what's shaping that number in a given county. All figures are age-adjusted, so an older or younger county doesn't look sicker or healthier purely from its age mix. These are county-wide rates, not a verdict on any one person who lives there.

49 jurisdictions ranked, worst self-rated health first

#	Jurisdiction	Population	Counties	Fair/Poor Health	Obesity	Diabetes	Frequent Mental Distress
1	West Virginia (WV)	1,778,373	55	23.8%	40.8%	12.9%	22.9%
2	Louisiana (LA)	4,611,961	64	23.6%	40.1%	13.4%	20.2%
3	Mississippi (MS)	2,946,779	82	23.5%	40.7%	13.6%	18.2%
4	Arkansas (AR)	3,049,391	75	23.4%	39.6%	11.5%	19.5%
5	New Mexico (NM)	2,120,246	33	23.2%	34.7%	11.5%	17.1%
6	Alabama (AL)	5,086,768	67	21.9%	39.6%	12.8%	18.2%
7	Texas (TX)	30,188,424	254	21.8%	35.8%	12.3%	17.1%
8	California (CA)	39,287,377	58	21.7%	28.0%	10.7%	16.9%
9	Nevada (NV)	3,184,612	17	21.5%	31.2%	10.6%	19.2%
10	Tennessee (TN)	7,066,383	95	21.5%	37.6%	12.0%	20.2%
11	Oklahoma (OK)	4,028,634	77	20.6%	39.3%	11.6%	18.6%
12	Indiana (IN)	6,851,073	92	19.9%	38.6%	11.5%	18.4%
13	Georgia (GA)	10,940,407	159	19.8%	35.3%	12.1%	17.4%
14	Missouri (MO)	6,191,814	115	19.6%	36.8%	10.4%	18.5%
15	South Carolina (SC)	5,296,225	46	19.2%	36.0%	11.8%	17.5%
16	Florida (FL)	22,416,077	67	19.1%	32.2%	11.1%	17.3%
17	Arizona (AZ)	7,378,838	15	18.7%	31.7%	9.9%	16.2%
18	Alaska (AK)	735,706	30	18.6%	35.4%	9.1%	16.4%
19	Ohio (OH)	11,810,293	88	18.5%	37.2%	11.3%	18.6%
20	Michigan (MI)	10,077,761	83	18.4%	36.4%	10.1%	18.8%
21	North Carolina (NC)	10,730,404	100	18.2%	35.2%	10.6%	17.3%
22	Oregon (OR)	4,254,293	36	18.2%	33.7%	9.6%	18.6%
23	Illinois (IL)	12,694,798	102	17.9%	34.1%	10.2%	16.3%
24	Delaware (DE)	1,021,191	3	17.6%	35.5%	10.8%	16.8%
25	Kansas (KS)	2,947,197	105	17.5%	37.0%	10.1%	16.7%
26	Montana (MT)	1,116,875	56	17.5%	31.7%	8.3%	18.5%
27	Wyoming (WY)	582,397	23	17.5%	33.9%	9.3%	16.8%
28	Hawaii (HI)	1,445,235	5	17.4%	26.1%	10.2%	15.9%
29	New York (NY)	19,852,366	62	17.4%	29.0%	10.0%	15.9%
30	Virginia (VA)	8,705,170	133	17.4%	34.5%	11.0%	16.6%
31	Idaho (ID)	1,934,262	44	17.3%	32.5%	9.0%	16.9%
32	Maine (ME)	1,387,817	16	17.3%	32.8%	8.8%	19.6%
33	Maryland (MD)	6,206,011	24	17.1%	35.0%	10.9%	15.7%
34	Iowa (IA)	3,210,507	99	17.0%	38.2%	9.7%	17.3%
35	Wisconsin (WI)	5,914,872	72	16.9%	37.9%	9.7%	16.5%
36	Rhode Island (RI)	1,101,801	5	16.7%	32.1%	9.7%	17.6%
37	South Dakota (SD)	907,428	66	16.7%	36.3%	10.2%	16.3%
38	New Jersey (NJ)	9,343,809	21	16.3%	28.8%	9.4%	15.6%
39	North Dakota (ND)	784,841	53	15.9%	37.4%	9.1%	14.7%
40	Washington (WA)	7,816,116	39	15.8%	30.7%	8.6%	17.0%
41	Utah (UT)	3,392,331	29	15.7%	31.6%	8.8%	17.0%
42	Connecticut (CT)	3,624,508	9	15.6%	30.7%	8.6%	16.7%
43	Massachusetts (MA)	7,044,056	14	15.6%	27.9%	8.6%	17.0%
44	Nebraska (NE)	1,978,707	93	15.6%	38.1%	9.5%	14.8%
45	Colorado (CO)	5,862,189	64	15.3%	26.2%	8.0%	16.4%
46	Minnesota (MN)	5,739,445	87	15.3%	33.6%	8.7%	15.9%
47	District of Columbia (DC)	681,294	1	13.5%	25.1%	8.5%	13.7%
48	New Hampshire (NH)	1,394,868	10	13.5%	31.7%	7.6%	16.6%
49	Vermont (VT)	647,106	14	13.5%	28.9%	7.0%	17.4%

7 jurisdictions not shown above — CDC PLACES has no fair-or-poor-health reading on file, not a zero. See the Data page for source coverage.