Frequent mental distress in adults, local model estimate
Percentage of adults who say their mental health was not good on 14 or more of the past 30 days. Model-based estimate for adults aged 18 and over from CDC PLACES. Crude prevalence, not age-adjusted.
US counties and cities (incorporated places of 10,000 or more). CDC PLACES combines Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) answers with local population data through multilevel regression and poststratification, so a county or city value is a model estimate, not a survey count. The year is the BRFSS survey year, not the release year. CDC says the method does not support tracking change in a place over time, and each annual release can change the model, so values for different years are not strictly comparable. A state is missing in a year when its BRFSS data did not meet standards (Kentucky and Pennsylvania in 2023, Florida in 2021). Connecticut counties appear as its nine planning regions from 2022; its eight former counties are not served. City values for 2021 come from the 2023 release, built on 2010 Census place boundaries; later years use 2020 boundaries.
Key facts
- Oglala Lakota County had the highest frequent mental distress in adults, local model estimate of 2956 counties in 2023, at 25.7%, and Sumter County the lowest, at 11.5%. Source: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Published for 6,355 places, with figures from 2021 to 2023.
Rankings
- US counties
- US cities
- Counties in Texas
- Counties in Georgia
- Counties in Virginia
- Counties in Kentucky
- Counties in Missouri
- Counties in Kansas
- Counties in Illinois
- Counties in North Carolina
- Counties in Iowa
- Counties in Tennessee
US counties by frequent mental distress in adults, local model estimate, 2023
Places with data
Provinces and counties
- Los Angeles County
- Cook County
- Harris County
- Maricopa County
- San Diego County
- Orange County
- Miami-Dade County
- Dallas County
- Kings County
- Riverside County
- Dane County
- Genesee County
- Dutchess County
- Rockland County
- Harrison County
- Richmond County
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