California Healthy Places Index Map

Everyone should have the opportunity to be healthy. One's health is shaped dramatically by community characteristics - like housing, education, economic, and other social factors – which often are themselves shaped through policy. The results shown below can be used to explore, identify and strategize pathways to improve healthy community conditions. The California Healthy Places Index (HPI) combines 25 community characteristics into a single indexed HPI Score correlated to life expectancy at birth. Individual HPI indicators are available for a deeper look at community conditions impacting health. The scores are displayed in quartiles, allowing for straightforward comparisons within a specific geography and across the state.