US Counties With the Lowest Disability-free Scores

2,956 US counties ranked by disability-free score, from lowest to highest. First are Oglala Lakota County, SD (-5.31), Todd County, SD (-4.83) and Kusilvak Census Area, AK (-4.04). 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 lowest counties

Every state, lowest first

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

More on disability-free score

• US Counties With the Highest Disability-free Scores
• Disability-free 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.