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HealthGalax, VAUnited States
Air Quality (100=best)8482.8
Water Quality (100=best)10055
Superfund Sites (100=best)9971
Physicians per 100k647.7220.5

There are 648 physicians per 100,000 population in Galax, VA. The US average is 221.

Galax, VA Health Index

Air quality in Galax, VA is 84 on a scale to 100 (higher is better). This is based on ozone alert days and number of pollutants in the air, as reported by the EPA.

Water quality in Galax, VA is 100 on a scale to 100 (higher is better). The EPA has a complex method of measuring watershed quality using 15 indicators.

Superfund index is 99 on a scale to 100 (higher is better). This is upon the number and impact of EPA Superfund pollution sites in the county, including spending on the cleanup efforts.


Galax Health SperlingViews

Much to love: Bring your own job (and hopefully a few more), make friends, enlarge your cultural horizons and you will find Galax and Grayson County most agreeable. Inexpensive... (read more)It's beautiful: but the people are closed-minded and... (read more)What An Experience...if you like moving backward: If you want to revert to the past here is the place. I don't mean like Happy Days either more like Deliverance meets Andy Griffith with a heavy dose of the George Lopez... (read more)Have an opinion about Galax? Leave a commentTo See All SperlingViews for Galax Click Here