County health

Obesity among adults in the United States stood at 32.9%, CDC’s age-adjusted model estimate, in 2023, according to CDC’s PLACES.

CDC’s PLACES program publishes 40 measures of adult health, risk behavior, screening, disability and social needs for 3,144 counties. These pages print every one, by state, county and measure, and rank counties on one measure at a time.

CDC’s estimates for the United States

32.9%
Obesity among adults: Age-adjusted prevalence, 2023; 95% interval 32.5% to 33.2%. Crude prevalence 32.8%.; 10.3%
Diagnosed diabetes among adults: Age-adjusted prevalence, 2023; 95% interval 10.1% to 10.5%. Crude prevalence 12.0%.; 11.5%
Current lack of health insurance among adults aged 18-64 years: Age-adjusted prevalence, 2023; 95% interval 11.2% to 11.9%. Crude prevalence 11.0%.; 3,144
Counties in the release: In the states and the District of Columbia; 1 with no published estimate, 845 missing at least one measure.

About these figures

Obesity among adults: 95% interval 32.5% to 33.2%. Crude prevalence 32.8%.
Diagnosed diabetes among adults: 95% interval 10.1% to 10.5%. Crude prevalence 12.0%.
Current lack of health insurance among adults aged 18-64 years: 95% interval 11.2% to 11.9%. Crude prevalence 11.0%.
Counties in the release: 1 with no published estimate, 845 missing at least one measure.

What stands out

Five findings. From CDC’s PLACES county data, each figure read from a query of that file and printed with its 95% interval.

Of the 2,956 counties CDC published it for, obesity among adults is highest in Perry, Alabama, 54.0% (95% interval 45.5% to 62.7%), and lowest in San Francisco, California, 17.1% (95% interval 13.7% to 21.2%), by CDC’s age-adjusted model estimate for 2023. Perry, Alabama →
Of the 2,956 counties CDC published it for, diagnosed diabetes among adults is highest in Oglala Lakota, South Dakota, 23.8% (95% interval 21.3% to 26.6%), and lowest in Douglas, Colorado, 6.0% (95% interval 5.1% to 7.1%), by CDC’s age-adjusted model estimate for 2023. Oglala Lakota, South Dakota →
Of the 2,956 counties CDC published it for, current lack of health insurance among adults aged 18-64 years is highest in Starr, Texas, 43.7% (95% interval 35.8% to 51.9%), and lowest in Norfolk, Massachusetts, 4.0% (95% interval 3.1% to 5.2%), by CDC’s age-adjusted model estimate for 2023. Starr, Texas →
Of the 2,956 counties CDC published it for, current cigarette smoking among adults is highest in Oglala Lakota, South Dakota, 40.3% (95% interval 35.0% to 45.2%), and lowest in Summit, Utah, 6.5% (95% interval 4.8% to 8.7%), by CDC’s age-adjusted model estimate for 2023. Oglala Lakota, South Dakota →
CDC published 5 of its 40 measures for the counties of Kentucky and Pennsylvania in this release, the fewest of any state; CDC served no estimate of the other 35 for them, and no figure is filled in. Kentucky and Pennsylvania →

What changed in this release

This is the hub's first release, retrieved on November 4, 2026: 32.9% of adults with obesity, by CDC’s age-adjusted model estimate in 2023.

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Counties by state

Each state's counties in CDC’s PLACES release, and how many of its measures CDC published there
State	Counties	Measures published
Alabama	67	40 of 40
Alaska	30	40 of 40
Arizona	15	40 of 40
Arkansas	75	40 of 40
California	58	40 of 40
Colorado	64	33 of 40
Connecticut	9	40 of 40
Delaware	3	40 of 40
District of Columbia	1	40 of 40
Florida	67	33 of 40
Georgia	159	40 of 40
Hawaii	5	40 of 40
Idaho	44	40 of 40
Illinois	102	40 of 40
Indiana	92	40 of 40
Iowa	99	40 of 40
Kansas	105	40 of 40
Kentucky	120	5 of 40
Louisiana	64	40 of 40
Maine	16	40 of 40
Maryland	24	40 of 40
Massachusetts	14	40 of 40
Michigan	83	40 of 40
Minnesota	87	40 of 40
Mississippi	82	40 of 40
Missouri	115	40 of 40
Montana	56	40 of 40
Nebraska	93	40 of 40
Nevada	17	40 of 40
New Hampshire	10	40 of 40
New Jersey	21	40 of 40
New Mexico	33	40 of 40
New York	62	40 of 40
North Carolina	100	40 of 40
North Dakota	53	40 of 40
Ohio	88	40 of 40
Oklahoma	77	40 of 40
Oregon	36	33 of 40
Pennsylvania	67	5 of 40
Rhode Island	5	40 of 40
South Carolina	46	40 of 40
South Dakota	66	33 of 40
Tennessee	95	33 of 40
Texas	254	33 of 40
Utah	29	40 of 40
Vermont	14	33 of 40
Virginia	133	40 of 40
Washington	39	33 of 40
West Virginia	55	40 of 40
Wisconsin	72	40 of 40
Wyoming	23	33 of 40

Every measure

CDC’s name for each measure, its age-adjusted estimate for the United States, and the median of the counties’ estimates: at least half the counties CDC published are at or below it.

2 more columns on a wider screen

Each PLACES measure: CDC’s age-adjusted United States estimate and the median county estimate
Measure	Category	United States	Median county	Year
Any disability among adults	Disability	28.3%	31.8%	2023
Cognitive disability among adults	Disability	14.1%	16.3%	2023
Hearing disability among adults	Disability	5.8%	6.9%	2023
Independent living disability among adults	Disability	7.6%	8.7%	2023
Mobility disability among adults	Disability	11.7%	13.2%	2023
Self-care disability among adults	Disability	3.4%	3.7%	2023
Vision disability among adults	Disability	5.2%	5.0%	2023
All teeth lost among adults aged ≥65 years	Health Outcomes	12.6%	15.4%	2022
Arthritis among adults	Health Outcomes	21.9%	24.4%	2023
Cancer (non-skin) or melanoma among adults	Health Outcomes	6.6%	7.2%	2023
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among adults	Health Outcomes	5.3%	6.8%	2023
Coronary heart disease among adults	Health Outcomes	5.3%	5.9%	2023
Current asthma among adults	Health Outcomes	9.8%	10.7%	2023
Depression among adults	Health Outcomes	20.7%	23.9%	2023
Diagnosed diabetes among adults	Health Outcomes	10.3%	10.7%	2023
High blood pressure among adults	Health Outcomes	30.7%	32.8%	2023
High cholesterol among adults who have ever been screened	Health Outcomes	32.2%	32.2%	2023
Obesity among adults	Health Outcomes	32.9%	38.2%	2023
Stroke among adults	Health Outcomes	2.9%	3.1%	2023
Binge drinking among adults	Health Risk Behaviors	16.6%	17.6%	2023
Current cigarette smoking among adults	Health Risk Behaviors	11.6%	16.1%	2023
No leisure-time physical activity among adults	Health Risk Behaviors	23.7%	26.5%	2023
Short sleep duration among adults	Health Risk Behaviors	36.8%	37.6%	2022
Fair or poor self-rated health status among adults	Health Status	18.3%	19.9%	2023
Frequent mental distress among adults	Health Status	16.3%	18.6%	2023
Frequent physical distress among adults	Health Status	12.1%	13.7%	2023
Food insecurity in the past 12 months among adults	Health-Related Social Needs	15.6%	15.8%	2023
Housing insecurity in the past 12 months among adults	Health-Related Social Needs	12.9%	12.9%	2023
Lack of reliable transportation in the past 12 months among adults	Health-Related Social Needs	8.3%	8.7%	2023
Lack of social and emotional support among adults	Health-Related Social Needs	24.1%	23.8%	2023
Loneliness among adults	Health-Related Social Needs	33.2%	34.0%	2023
Received food stamps in the past 12 months among adults	Health-Related Social Needs	11.8%	12.8%	2023
Utility services shut-off threat in the past 12 months among adults	Health-Related Social Needs	8.1%	8.9%	2023
Cholesterol screening among adults	Prevention	85.6%	82.9%	2023
Colorectal cancer screening among adults aged 45–75 years	Prevention	54.1%	57.7%	2022
Current lack of health insurance among adults aged 18-64 years	Prevention	11.5%	10.4%	2023
Mammography use among women aged 50-74 years	Prevention	76.0%	73.6%	2022
Taking medicine to control high blood pressure among adults with high blood pressure	Prevention	57.5%	58.4%	2023
Visited dentist or dental clinic in the past year among adults	Prevention	63.4%	59.1%	2022
Visits to doctor for routine checkup within the past year among adults	Prevention	75.7%	75.4%	2023

Rankings

Counties ranked on one measure at a time, highest age-adjusted estimate first, nationally and within each state. Every measure’s ranking is linked from its page.

Analysis

Each brief is prose written around values a query returned. Every figure in one is re-checked against its query before it can merge, so a number in the text cannot drift from the data behind it.

Estimated obesity gap in a state: median 16.25 points, 2025 release
Across the 48 states with at least two counties that have a published estimate, the gap between a state’s highest and lowest county on CDC’s estimate of adults with obesity has a median of 16.25 points. The widest gap is in New York, where the estimates run from 19.5% to 42.9% across 62 counties, a gap of 23.4 points.
American Factbook · November 5, 2026

What this data cannot show

PLACES values are CDC's model-based estimates, predicted from who lives in a county, not counted there; CDC says they should not be used to rank the overall health of an area or to evaluate a program.
CDC says PLACES cannot show trends for counties, so these pages show one release and no change over time.
Kentucky and Pennsylvania counties have only the measures CDC carried over from an earlier survey year, some states have no social-needs measures, and a county with too few adults has none; nothing is filled in for any of them.
Whether a program worked: the model “cannot detect effects due to local interventions”.
A count of people. Every value is a percentage of adults, and no page multiplies one by a population.

The full method: How the county health figures are made.

Everything in this hub

Every page in this topic, by kind.

Rankings40

Each list ordered by one measure, with the figure behind every entry.

Measures40

One page per CDC PLACES measure: CDC’s name and definition, the United States estimate, and every state’s counties on it.

States51

CDC’s model-based estimates for each county of a state, every measure CDC published there, and what it did not.

Counties3,144

Counties

Each county CDC served, keyed by its FIPS code: every measure's age-adjusted and crude estimate with its 95% interval, and the measures CDC did not publish. Listed by state.

Sources

PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, County Data, 2025 release — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Population Health · Public Domain · retrieved November 4, 2026

Compiled automatically from PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, County Data, 2025 release by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved November 4, 2026