Mental Health / Wellbeing

Composite wellbeing score from county mental distress, suicide mortality, social connectedness, and mental-health provider access.

Scale0-100

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.

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Poor mental health days, frequent mental distress, suicide mortality, loneliness, and lack of social/emotional support are matched at the county level.
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Lower burden values are converted to inverse percentile-rank scores over the scored locations.
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The overall formula is 40% low mental distress, 25% low suicide risk, 20% social connectedness, and 15% mental-health provider access.
4
Unavailable county measures fall back to state or national values with lower confidence.

Technical details

Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Mental Health / Wellbeing.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Mental Health / Wellbeing rewards places with lower mental distress, lower suicide mortality, stronger social connectedness, and better mental-health provider access.

Statistics Feeding This Score

Low Mental Distress
Composite of poor mental health days and frequent mental distress.
Source: Derived from County Health Rankings inputs
Low Suicide Risk
Bayesian-smoothed suicide mortality rate, scored so lower rates rank higher.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Social Connectedness
Composite of lower reported loneliness and lower lack of social/emotional support.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Mental Health Provider Access
Published provider-access component from the healthcare scorer.
Source: Published score component

Source Data

Source: County Health Rankings & RoadmapsCounty, state, and national public-health measures from the March 25, 2026 supplemental analytic release.

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 Mental Health / Wellbeing.

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