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US Counties With the Highest Disability-free Scores

2,956 US counties ranked by disability-free score, from highest to lowest. First are Falls Church city, VA (2.05), Los Alamos County, NM (1.95) and Somerset County, NJ (1.94). The middle one of the 2,956 has 0.109.

What this measures

How common disability is, across seven kinds, flipped so higher means less disability. It is kept out of the health score on purpose. Disability goes with age and with how people report it as much as with anything a county does. Adding it would make an older county look sicker just for being older. Source: .

A standard deviation is a typical gap between places.

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

The 100 highest counties

RankCountystandard deviations
1Falls Church city, VA2.05
2Los Alamos County, NM1.95
3Somerset County, NJ1.94
4Howard County, MD1.93
5Morris County, NJ1.92
6Delaware County, OH1.92
7Hunterdon County, NJ1.85
8Arlington County, VA1.85
9Douglas County, CO1.84
10King County, WA1.78
11Hamilton County, IN1.77
12Bergen County, NJ1.75
13Forsyth County, GA1.74
14Monmouth County, NJ1.71
15Loudoun County, VA1.7
16Broomfield County, CO1.7
17Nantucket County, MA1.68
18Montgomery County, MD1.67
19Teton County, WY1.67
20Nassau County, NY1.66
21Pitkin County, CO1.66
22Oconee County, GA1.64
23Fairfax County, VA1.64
24Carver County, MN1.63
25DuPage County, IL1.62
26Dallas County, IA1.62
27Putnam County, NY1.61
28Washington County, MN1.61
29Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT1.6
30Hinsdale County, CO1.58
31Rockingham County, NH1.57
32Santa Clara County, CA1.57
33Norfolk County, MA1.56
34Bristol County, RI1.55
35Saratoga County, NY1.55
36Newport County, RI1.55
37Ozaukee County, WI1.55
38Sussex County, NJ1.54
39Warren County, OH1.53
40San Mateo County, CA1.53
41Johnson County, KS1.53
42Summit County, UT1.53
43Westchester County, NY1.53
44Middlesex County, MA1.53
45Frederick County, MD1.52
46Ouray County, CO1.51
47Waukesha County, WI1.5
48Collin County, TX1.5
49Chittenden County, VT1.49
50Washington County, RI1.48
51Oakland County, MI1.48
52San Francisco County, CA1.46
53Monroe County, IL1.46
54Williamson County, TN1.45
55Union County, OH1.45
56Boulder County, CO1.45
57Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT1.44
58Sarpy County, NE1.43
59Clear Creek County, CO1.42
60Burlington County, NJ1.42
61Scott County, MN1.42
62Middlesex County, NJ1.42
63Marin County, CA1.42
64Lincoln County, SD1.41
65St. Johns County, FL1.41
66Boone County, IN1.41
67Carroll County, MD1.41
68Dane County, WI1.39
69Tompkins County, NY1.39
70Jefferson County, CO1.38
71San Miguel County, CO1.37
72Albemarle County, VA1.37
73District of Columbia, DC1.37
74Alexandria city, VA1.37
75Fayette County, GA1.36
76Routt County, CO1.36
77New York County, NY1.36
78Goochland County, VA1.36
79Olmsted County, MN1.36
80Dakota County, MN1.36
81Livingston County, MI1.35
82Kendall County, IL1.35
83Suffolk County, NY1.35
84Anne Arundel County, MD1.35
85Wake County, NC1.35
86Barnstable County, MA1.34
87Fairfax city, VA1.34
88Harford County, MD1.34
89York County, VA1.33
90Addison County, VT1.32
91San Juan County, WA1.32
92Warren County, NJ1.31
93Warren County, IA1.31
94Calvert County, MD1.31
95Gunnison County, CO1.31
96Dukes County, MA1.3
97Rockwall County, TX1.3
98Lake County, IL1.3
99Grand Isle County, VT1.3
100Washington County, NE1.3

Every state, highest first

Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.

RankStatestandard deviations
1New Jersey0.837
2Connecticut0.779
3Maryland0.742
4Hawaii0.63
5North Dakota0.628
6Nebraska0.593
7Vermont0.575
8Colorado0.493
9Utah0.485
10Minnesota0.446
11Washington0.385
12Illinois0.345
13Iowa0.331
14New Hampshire0.329
15Alaska0.298
16Massachusetts0.25
17New York0.166
18Arizona0.0645
19Florida0.0423
20Wisconsin0.0155
21California-0.029
22Oregon-0.07
23Delaware-0.0949
24Wyoming-0.142
25Virginia-0.208
26South Dakota-0.231
27Georgia-0.251
28Kansas-0.265
29Montana-0.292
30Ohio-0.306
31Texas-0.306
32Rhode Island-0.322
33Idaho-0.359
34Indiana-0.426
35North Carolina-0.443
36Maine-0.48
37Michigan-0.517
38South Carolina-0.609
39New Mexico-0.678
40Missouri-1.15
41Alabama-1.41
42Oklahoma-1.54
43Louisiana-1.7
44Tennessee-1.72
45Mississippi-1.8
46Arkansas-2.14
47West Virginia-2.47

More on disability-free score

A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.