Score
Healthy Food Environment
Higher County Health Rankings food environment index scores higher.
Higher values rank better for this score.
How It's Calculated
The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.
How the ranking is built
Healthy Food Environment rewards counties with a stronger County Health Rankings food environment index.
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The food environment index is percentile-ranked over the scored locations.
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Higher index values score higher, using the full observed distribution without p5/p95 clipping.
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State or national fallback values are used when county values are unavailable.
Technical details
Read from the current master score table for this criterion.
The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Healthy Food Environment.
What This Score Means
Healthy Food Environment rewards counties with a stronger County Health Rankings food environment index.
Statistics Feeding This Score
- Food environment indexSource: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
County Health Rankings index combining access to healthy foods and food insecurity signals.
Source Data
Known Limits
- These are county-level public-health and built-environment proxies, not individual medical advice or a guarantee of personal outcomes.
- County Health Rankings modeled prevalence values can miss neighborhood variation, subpopulations, local grocery prices, exact diet quality, and clinical care quality.
- Active Living Environment reuses published walkability, bike/pedestrian commute, park, and trail scores because the March 25, 2026 supplemental file does not include the exercise-opportunity field locally.
- Use this alongside affordability, climate, healthcare, safety, and recreation preferences rather than as a standalone health prediction.
Top 10 Locations
Ranked by Healthy Food Environment.