US Counties With the Highest Friending Clustering

3,091 US counties ranked by friending clustering, from highest to lowest. First are Kusilvak Census Area, AK (0.261), Nome Census Area, AK (0.235) and Northwest Arctic Borough, AK (0.228). The middle one of the 3,091 has 0.115.

What this measures

How often a person's friends are also friends with each other. It shows how tight-knit the local network is, which is separate from how far it reaches across income groups. 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 clustering

• US Counties With the Lowest Friending Clustering
• Friending clustering 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.