Healthiest Cities in Ohio

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

4 cities ranked in Ohio (of 96 nationwide).

Rank	City	Population	Score
60	Columbus, OH Franklin County	933,263	37.9
85	Cincinnati, OH Hamilton County	314,915	25.9
92	Toledo, OH Lucas County	265,638	17.4
95	Cleveland, OH Cuyahoga County	365,379	13.2

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