Score
Social Connectedness
Lower county loneliness and lack of social/emotional support 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
Social Connectedness rewards counties with lower reported loneliness and fewer adults reporting inadequate social and emotional support.
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Loneliness and lack of social/emotional support are inverse percentile-ranked.
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The formula is 55% lower loneliness and 45% lower lack of support.
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For states without these optional BRFSS module measures, national fallback values are used with lower confidence.
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 Social Connectedness.
What This Score Means
Social Connectedness rewards counties with lower reported loneliness and fewer adults reporting inadequate social and emotional support.
Statistics Feeding This Score
- Feelings of lonelinessSource: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Adults reporting feelings of loneliness.
- Lack of social/emotional supportSource: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Adults reporting they sometimes, rarely, or never get needed support.
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 Social Connectedness.