The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have published County Health Rankings for nearly every county in the U.S.   The rankings measure health based upon multiple factors, from graduation rates to obesity.

The interactive website features a color-coded map that compares each county’s overall health with other counties in each of the 50 states. People can compare how their county is doing in areas like diabetes screening rates or number of uninsured adults to national benchmarks.

Each county’s rank reveals a pattern of strengths and weaknesses.  Some highlights of what counties look like nationally:

• People are nearly twice as likely to be in fair or poor health in the unhealthiest counties;
• Unhealthy counties have significantly lower high school graduation rates;
• Unhealthy counties have more than twice as many children in poverty;
• Unhealthy counties have much fewer grocery stores or farmer’s markets; and
• Unhealthy counties have much higher rates of unemployment.