Score
Low Mental Distress
Lower county poor mental health days and frequent mental distress score 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
Low Mental Distress rewards counties with fewer poor mental-health days and fewer adults reporting frequent mental distress.
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Both distress measures are inverse percentile-ranked so lower burden scores higher.
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The formula is 45% poor mental health days and 55% frequent mental distress.
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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 Low Mental Distress.
What This Score Means
Low Mental Distress rewards counties with fewer poor mental-health days and fewer adults reporting frequent mental distress.
Statistics Feeding This Score
- Poor mental health daysSource: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Average number of poor mental-health days reported in the past 30 days.
- Frequent mental distressSource: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Adults reporting 14 or more poor mental-health days in the past 30 days.
Source Data
Known Limits
- These are county-level public-health proxies, not individual clinical advice or a guarantee of personal fit.
- Modeled BRFSS estimates and mortality rates can miss neighborhood variation, stigma, social fit, appointment availability, crisis-service quality, and insurance network details.
- Some social-support measures are unavailable for entire states in the supplemental release; those places fall back toward state or national values with lower confidence.
- Use this alongside healthcare, safety, affordability, climate, and social preferences rather than as a standalone diagnosis of a place.
Top 10 Locations
Ranked by Low Mental Distress.