US Counties With the Highest Friending Bias

3,014 US counties ranked by friending bias, from highest to lowest. First are Todd County, SD (0.335), Nantucket County, MA (0.33) and DeSoto County, FL (0.308). The middle one of the 3,014 has 0.064.

What this measures

How much less often low-income people make high-income friends than you would expect from how often they meet them. A high value means the chance to mix is there but is not taken. Source: Social Capital Atlas.

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

More on friending bias

• US Counties With the Lowest Friending Bias
• Friending bias by US county: map by year and what it goes with

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