US Counties With the Highest Mutual-friend Shares

3,091 US counties ranked by mutual-friend share, from highest to lowest. First are Washington County, GA (1), Brown County, IL (1) and Barber County, KS (1). The middle one of the 3,091 has 0.994.

What this measures

The share of local friendships where the two friends also share a third friend nearby. 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 mutual-friend share

• US Counties With the Lowest Mutual-friend Shares
• Mutual-friend share 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.