2025 Compare Cities Health:
Rock Island, IL vs Carbondale, IL

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Highlights
- There are 268 physicians per 100,000 people in Carbondale.
- There are 165 physicians per 100,000 people in Rock Island.
- The US average is 210 physicians per 100,000 people.
 Rock Island, ILCarbondale, ILUnited States
 Air Quality (100=best)  Unlock65.258.4
 Water Quality (100=best)45  Unlock55
 Superfund Sites (100=best)  Unlock95.486.9
 Physicians per Cap.165  Unlock210
 Health Cost  Unlock118100
   (100 = best)
Reviews for Rock Island    3 Reviews

Over 17 years ago

Pros: 1. Extremely low cost of living 2. Affordable place to live Cons: 1. High crime rate 2. Poor school system 3. Not much to  More

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Rock Island has a varied background and contains many cultural and historic areas. It has been improving its school system and is in a metropolitan area which contains  More

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Over 19 years ago

I just moved here for work one year ago. Moving from San Francisco here was a shock but ultimatelly good. The community is a typical midwestern small town. It is part  More

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Reviews for Carbondale    7 Reviews

I've lived in C'dale for over 30 years. I got an excellent education here - Giant City School was great, though fairly insular and not very diverse (among its drawbacks  More

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Over 17 years ago

I like Carbondale. It is relaxing and an easy way to go about getting a college degree. It has its ups and downs, mainly with the people in the town not recognizing the  More

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All of the comments are negative here and seem to me to be misleading. The idea that you have to have a lot of money in Carbondale is ridiculous. The price of cultural  More

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