APPENDIX D – CHSI PEER COUNTIES

County Health Rankings has assembled community health data for all 3,143 counties in the United States. Following a methodology developed by the Centers for Disease Control’s Community Health Status Indicators Project (CHSI), County Health Rankings also publishes lists of “peer counties,” so comparisons with peer counties in other states can be made. Each county in the U.S. is assigned 30 to 35 peer counties based on 19 variables including population size, population growth, population density, household income, unemployment, percent children, percent elderly, and poverty rates. Exhibit 50 lists peer counties for New Castle County, Delaware.

Exhibit 50: CHSI Peer Counties

New Castle County, Delaware

Pinal County, Arizona Arapahoe County, Colorado Gilpin County, Colorado Clay County, Florida St. Johns County, Florida Seminole County, Florida Floyd County, Indiana Leavenworth County, Kansas Campbell County, Kentucky Kenton County, Kentucky St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana DeSoto County, Mississippi Clay County, Missouri Platte County, Missouri Strafford County, New Hampshire Iredell County, North Carolina Butler County, Ohio Cleveland County, Oklahoma Washington County, Oregon Newport County, Rhode Island York County, South Carolina Rutherford County, Tennessee Sumner County, Tennessee Galveston County, Texas Hays County, Texas Henrico County, Virginia Prince George County, Virginia Chesapeake city, Virginia Williamsburg city, Virginia Clark County, Washington Jefferson County, West Virginia Pierce County, Wisconsin