Healthiest Cities in Colorado

Adult health outcomes and behaviors estimated by the CDC: obesity, physical inactivity, diabetes, smoking, mental distress, sleep and health insurance coverage.

3 cities ranked in Colorado (of 96 nationwide).

Rank	City	Population	Score
8	Denver, CO Denver County	729,019	83.5
19	Colorado Springs, CO El Paso County	493,554	71.0
32	Aurora, CO Arapahoe County	403,130	60.4

How this ranking works

Each metric is scored 0-100 by percentile against the other ranked cities, then blended using these weights:

Adults with obesity (lower is better) ×2
Adults with no leisure-time physical activity (lower is better) ×2
Adults with diabetes (lower is better) ×2
Adults with frequent mental distress (lower is better) ×2
Adults who currently smoke (lower is better) ×1
Adults sleeping under 7 hours (lower is better) ×1
Adults without health insurance (lower is better) ×1
Adults with a routine checkup ×1

Scores are relative to the cities in our dataset. About the data.

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Data: CDC PLACES