Healthiest Cities in Virginia

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 Virginia (of 96 nationwide).

Rank	City	Population	Score
30	Virginia Beach, VA Virginia Beach city	454,808	60.8
45	Chesapeake, VA Chesapeake city	254,997	53.3
57	Richmond, VA Richmond city	233,655	38.8
78	Norfolk, VA Norfolk city	231,105	30.7

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