An Apple a Day: The Most (and Least) Healthy States

The Most and Least Healthy States. The green states are the top 10 sickest states, while the pink ones are the 10 most healthy.

Using data from the United States Census Bureau and social media reports, Sickweather, a company that peruses social media fro sick reports, the most and least healthy states of 2014. Sickweather looked into social media reports of allergies, flu, cough, colds and fever for the first 10 months of 2014 to calculate the number of sick reports per thousand people in the state. Their results have been reproduced below:

Least Healthy States:

1. Kansas- 3.96 sick reports per thousand people
2. Nevada- 3.26
3. Kentucky- 3.25
4. Texas- 3.10 
5. West Virginia- 2.99
6. Oregon- 2.95
7. Indiana- 2.91 
8. Oklahoma- 2.72
9. Massachusetts- 2.63
10. Nebraska- 2.48

Most Healthy States:

1. Idaho- 1.16 sick reports per thousand people
2. New York- 1.16
3. Mississippi- 1.22
4. Montana- 1.24
5. Vermont- 1.38
6. Washington- 1.39
7. Maine- 1.39
8. New Jersey- 1.41 
9. New Hampshire- 1.48
10. Utah- 1.48