US Counties With the Highest Social Connection Scores

3,065 US counties ranked by social connection score, from highest to lowest. First are Thomas County, NE (3.62), Griggs County, ND (3.13) and Douglas County, MO (3.01). The middle one of the 3,065 has 0.0085.

What this measures

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. 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

More on social connection score

• US Counties With the Lowest Social Connection Scores
• Social connection score 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.