Healthiest Cities in North Carolina

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

5 cities ranked in North Carolina (of 96 nationwide).

Rank	City	Population	Score
12	Raleigh, NC Wake County	499,825	78.5
21	Charlotte, NC Mecklenburg County	943,476	68.6
25	Durham, NC Durham County	301,870	66.1
54	Greensboro, NC Guilford County	307,381	43.3
58	Winston-Salem, NC Forsyth County	255,769	38.6

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