U.S. News & World Report released its 2020 Healthiest Communities rankings, and Falls Church and Loudoun County in Virginia made the top 10, while Howard County, Maryland, fell in the rankings.
U.S. News & World Report released its 2020 Healthiest Communities rankings, and Falls Church and Loudoun County, in Virginia, made the top 10, while Howard County, Maryland, fell in the rankings.
Falls Church ranked third, and Loudoun County was sixth on the list. Howard County, which ranked 10th in 2019, slipped to No. 19 on the current list.
Los Alamos County, New Mexico, topped the list, followed by Douglas County, Colorado.
The rankings combine 84 different metrics across 10 different categories to assess factors that make a community healthy — everything from the natural environment to access to health care.
Deidre McPhillips, senior data editor at U.S. News and World Reports, told WTOP that communities such as Falls Church rank highly on the list because they…
