The 2012 County Health Rankings are out, and on them you can find out which counties are the healthiest and which are the least healthy in the state and nation.
The rankings are an annual check-up, now in their third year, by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
To come up with the list, researchers looked into factors that affect people's health and how long they live, including education rates, income levels, and access to healthy foods, as well as access to medical care. This year's rankings include several new measures, such as how many fast food restaurants are in a county and levels of physical inactivity among residents.
In South Carolina, Beaufort County is the healthiest of the 46 counties. You can find more information on the South Carolina Rankings here.
1 Beaufort
2 York
3 Lexington
4 Greenville
5 Dorchester
6 Pickens
7 Charleston
8 Edgefield
9 Saluda
10 Kershaw
11 Richland
12 Berkeley
13 Aiken
14 Horry
15 Anderson
16 Oconee
17 Greenwood
18 Spartanburg
19 Lancaster
20 Sumter
21 Abbeville
22 Georgetown2
3 Calhoun
24 Newberry
25 Barnwell
26 Clarendon
27 Union
28 Jasper
29 Florence
30 Hampton
31 Laurens
32 Colleton
33 Fairfield
34 Chesterfield
35 Darlington
36 Chester
37 Cherokee
38 McCormick
39 Bamberg
40 Dillon
41 Lee
42 Marlboro
43 Williamsburg
44 Marion
45 Orangeburg
46 Allendale
