The 2023 Mental Health Index, created by Conduent Healthy Communities Institute, is a measure of socioeconomic and health factors correlated with self-reported poor mental health. The index is part of Conduent's SocioNeeds Index® Suite, which provides analytics around social determinants of health to advance equitable outcomes for a range of topics.
All zip codes, counties, and county equivalents in the United States are given an index value from 0 (low need) to 100 (high need). To help you find the areas of highest need in your community, the selected locations are ranked from 1 (low need) to 5 (high need) based on their index value relative to similar locations within the region.
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Zip Codesort column | Indexsort column | Ranksort column | Countysort column |
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21817 | 97.8 | 5 | Somerset, MD |
21851 | 96.2 | 5 | Worcester, MD |
21853 | 93.0 | 5 | Somerset, MD |
21801 | 92.2 | 5 | Wicomico, MD |
21875 | 90.3 | 5 | Wicomico, MD |
21821 | 90.2 | 5 | Somerset, MD |
19966 | 87.5 | 5 | Sussex, DE |
21804 | 86.9 | 5 | Wicomico, MD |
21842 | 86.5 | 5 | Worcester, MD |
21811 | 85.7 | 5 | Worcester, MD |
19963 | 83.3 | 4 | Sussex, DE |
19970 | 82.8 | 4 | Sussex, DE |
19958 | 82.7 | 4 | Sussex, DE |
19975 | 81.7 | 4 | Sussex, DE |
21864 | 80.8 | 4 | Worcester, MD |
21822 | 79.3 | 4 | Wicomico, MD |
21863 | 79.2 | 4 | Worcester, MD |
19973 | 78.9 | 4 | Sussex, DE |
19956 | 77.3 | 4 | Sussex, DE |
19933 | 76.1 | 4 | Sussex, DE |
19930 | 75.4 | 4 | Sussex, DE |
19951 | 73.7 | 4 | Sussex, DE |
19945 | 69.9 | 3 | Sussex, DE |
19971 | 69.2 | 3 | Sussex, DE |
21837 | 68.5 | 3 | Wicomico, MD |
21849 | 67.6 | 3 | Wicomico, MD |
21826 | 67.0 | 3 | Wicomico, MD |
21850 | 65.6 | 3 | Wicomico, MD |
21874 | 62.5 | 3 | Wicomico, MD |
19968 | 53.5 | 2 | Sussex, DE |
19939 | 48.9 | 2 | Sussex, DE |
19940 | 48.6 | 2 | Sussex, DE |
19950 | 48.4 | 2 | Sussex, DE |
21861 | 45.7 | 2 | Wicomico, MD |
19967 | 45.1 | 2 | Sussex, DE |
19947 | 44.6 | 2 | Sussex, DE |
19960 | 40.8 | 2 | Sussex, DE |
19941 | 40.6 | 2 | Sussex, DE |
21830 | 39.2 | 2 | Wicomico, MD |
21871 | 27.4 | 1 | Somerset, MD |
21841 | 25.4 | 1 | Worcester, MD |
19931 | 23.4 | 1 | Sussex, DE |
21838 | 21.5 | 1 | Somerset, MD |
21813 | 5.0 | 1 | Worcester, MD |
Data Source
The Mental Health Index is calculated by Conduent Healthy Communities Institute using data from Claritas, 2023; American Community Survey, 2017-2021; and CDC PLACES Project, 2020.
Technical Note
Index values are not comparable across measurement periods. Index values and rankings are specific to a measurement period, showing the relative ranking of a location in comparison to other similar locations at that time.