Score
Low Suicide Risk
Lower Bayesian-smoothed county suicide mortality rates 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 Suicide Risk rewards counties with lower suicide mortality after smoothing small denominators toward the national rate.
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County suicide rates are Bayesian-smoothed toward the national rate.
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The smoothed rate is inverse percentile-ranked so lower mortality scores higher.
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State or national fallback values are used when county suicide rates 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 Suicide Risk.
What This Score Means
Low Suicide Risk rewards counties with lower suicide mortality after smoothing small denominators toward the national rate.
Statistics Feeding This Score
- Suicide deaths per 100kSource: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Age-adjusted suicide mortality rate from County Health Rankings.
- Smoothed suicide rateSource: Derived from County Health Rankings inputs
County rates are shrunk toward the national rate when the denominator is small.
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 Suicide Risk.