Social connection score

Social connection: friendships across income lines, friendships across income lines in high school, volunteering, community Facebook pages, membership groups, and loneliness and lack of support (flipped). Friending bias is left out, since it is built from the same numbers as friendships across income lines.

Reported for3,065areas, in 51 states — none in PR

Link to density0.20not mostly about how urban a place is

Nearby places alike0.61Moran’s I: strongly, neighbouring places tend to be similar

Typeratestandard deviations

How it has moved

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Every state, every year

Nothing to draw here: this measure has no state figures. Its publisher reports it for counties. This site does not add county numbers up into state figures, since a home-made figure could clash with one an agency publishes itself. The chart above covers the whole country, year by year.

Where it comes from

· derived from 7 measures (CDC, CHR, SC)

The average of 7 measures from 3 publishers. Each measure is first put on a common scale: how many typical gaps between places (standard deviations) it sits above or below the average. Each is also flipped where needed, so higher is always better. Measures from the same publisher are averaged first, then the publishers are averaged together. Each level is scaled on its own. A county's score shows where it stands among counties, and a state's shows where it stands among states. The two are not on one scale, so do not compare them with each other. This is a summary, not a measurement.

Combining areas: it cannot be combined, so it is shown only where its publisher works it out.

What it goes with

The strongest links that have a page of their own. Unadjusted is the link before adjusting for anything, from −1 (opposite) to +1 (in step). Adjusted compares places with the same population density, income and education levels, so those differences can’t explain the link. This list leaves out the 8 pairs built from the same numbers or the same model as this measure, since they are bound to match.

Measure	Unadjusted	Adjusted
Social connection score and Food insecurityWhere Social connection score is higher, Food insecurity tends to be lower: a moderate link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Food insecurity by US county	-0.73	-0.70
Social connection score and Lack of reliable transportationWhere Social connection score is higher, Lack of reliable transportation tends to be lower: a moderate link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Lack of reliable transportation by US county	-0.71	-0.69
Social connection score and Housing insecurityWhere Social connection score is higher, Housing insecurity tends to be lower: a moderate link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Housing insecurity by US county	-0.74	-0.69
Social connection score and Returns claiming the earned income creditWhere Social connection score is higher, Returns claiming the earned income credit tends to be lower: a moderate link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Returns claiming the earned income credit by US county	-0.69	-0.63
Social connection score and Threat of utility shut-offWhere Social connection score is higher, Threat of utility shut-off tends to be lower: a moderate link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Threat of utility shut-off by US county	-0.67	-0.63
Social connection score and Vision disabilityWhere Social connection score is higher, Vision disability tends to be lower: a moderate link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Vision disability by US county	-0.65	-0.62
Social connection score and Fair or poor self-rated healthWhere Social connection score is higher, Fair or poor self-rated health tends to be lower: a moderate link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Fair or poor self-rated health by US county	-0.66	-0.62
Social connection score and Self-care disabilityWhere Social connection score is higher, Self-care disability tends to be lower: a moderate link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Self-care disability by US county	-0.64	-0.61
Social connection score and Material security scoreWhere Social connection score is higher, Material security score tends to be higher: a moderate link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Material security score by US county	+0.61	+0.59
Social connection score and Received food stampsWhere Social connection score is higher, Received food stamps tends to be lower: a moderate link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Received food stamps by US county	-0.68	-0.59

Population makeup

How this measure varies with the racial and ethnic makeup of counties. Every group is shown, whatever its rank. These are links across counties: they describe places, not people. They say nothing about any person’s risk or behaviour based on their race. Counties with a larger share of one group also differ in much else, such as income, segregation, region and history. The adjusted figure only accounts for density, income and education.

Share of residents	Unadjusted	Adjusted
Social connection score and Share White, not HispanicWhere Social connection score is higher, Share White, not Hispanic tends to be higher: a moderate link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Share White, not Hispanic by US county	+0.53	+0.55
Social connection score and Share Black, not HispanicWhere Social connection score is higher, Share Black, not Hispanic tends to be lower: a moderate link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Share Black, not Hispanic by US county	-0.54	-0.46
Social connection score and Share Hispanic or Latino, any raceWhere Social connection score is higher, Share Hispanic or Latino, any race tends to be lower: a weak link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Share Hispanic or Latino, any race by US county	-0.26	-0.33
Social connection score and Share Asian, not HispanicWhere Social connection score is higher, Share Asian, not Hispanic tends to be lower: a weak link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared. Share Asian, not Hispanic by US county	-0.09	-0.25
Social connection score and Share American Indian or Alaska Native, not HispanicWhere Social connection score is higher, Share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic tends to be lower: a weak link that holds when only places with similar density, income and education are compared, and inside states as well. Share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic by US county	-0.15	-0.29

Highest and lowest

Of 3,065 counties reporting it. These are the two ends of a national ranking. For most measures, that ranking mostly sorts places by income and how urban they are. That is why the place pages compare each place with similar places instead.

Highest

Lowest

The middle area reports 0.0085. The middle half of counties falls between -0.409 and 0.401 (the 25th to 75th percentile).

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