US Counties With the Lowest Years of Potential Life Lost
2,897 US counties ranked by years of potential life lost, from lowest to highest. First are San Juan County, WA (3,315), Loudoun County, VA (3,355) and Pitkin County, CO (3,488). The middle one of the 2,897 has 9,938.
What this measures
Years of life lost before age 75, per 100,000 people. A death at 25 counts as fifty years lost and a death at 70 as five, so earlier deaths count for more. Source: County Health Rankings.
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.
| Rank | State | per 100,000 under 75 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts | 5,975 |
| 2 | Hawaii | 6,299 |
| 3 | Utah | 6,429 |
| 4 | Minnesota | 6,462 |
| 5 | Rhode Island | 6,529 |
| 6 | New Jersey | 6,562 |
| 7 | New Hampshire | 6,622 |
| 8 | New York | 6,637 |
| 9 | Connecticut | 6,703 |
| 10 | California | 6,744 |
| 11 | Washington | 6,781 |
| 12 | Nebraska | 7,072 |
| 13 | Idaho | 7,099 |
| 14 | Vermont | 7,142 |
| 15 | Iowa | 7,201 |
| 16 | Oregon | 7,219 |
| 17 | Colorado | 7,405 |
| 18 | Wisconsin | 7,447 |
| 19 | Virginia | 7,739 |
| 20 | Illinois | 7,921 |
| 21 | North Dakota | 8,020 |
| 22 | Maryland | 8,091 |
| 23 | Texas | 8,233 |
| 24 | Pennsylvania | 8,274 |
| 25 | Maine | 8,421 |
| 26 | Florida | 8,553 |
| 27 | Kansas | 8,589 |
| 28 | Nevada | 8,741 |
| 29 | Montana | 8,782 |
| 30 | Michigan | 8,798 |
| 31 | South Dakota | 8,930 |
| 32 | Delaware | 8,959 |
| 33 | Wyoming | 8,978 |
| 34 | District of Columbia | 9,241 |
| 35 | Georgia | 9,406 |
| 36 | North Carolina | 9,441 |
| 37 | Arizona | 9,457 |
| 38 | Ohio | 9,740 |
| 39 | Indiana | 9,810 |
| 40 | Missouri | 9,970 |
| 41 | Alaska | 10,028 |
| 42 | South Carolina | 10,824 |
| 43 | Oklahoma | 10,911 |
| 44 | Arkansas | 11,384 |
| 45 | Tennessee | 11,636 |
| 46 | Kentucky | 11,687 |
| 47 | Alabama | 11,853 |
| 48 | Louisiana | 12,185 |
| 49 | New Mexico | 12,363 |
| 50 | West Virginia | 13,324 |
| 51 | Mississippi | 13,328 |
More on years of potential life lost
- US Counties With the Highest Years of Potential Life Lost
- Years of potential life lost 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.