In 2017, Early County was one of eleven rural counties across Georgia selected by Healthcare Georgia Foundation to pilot a five-year process known as The Two Georgias Initiative. The central focus of this initiative is to build a local community partnership that works to identify and understand local health inequities, while also strategizing place-based solutions to improve equity and access for all residents. To accomplish that goal, it is necessary to move beyond county-level data and dig deeper into the indicators from individual census tracts and geographic areas. That process allows us to understand how residents from the same county, who may live only a few miles apart, often experience completely different realities, health outcomes, quality and length of life. Place does matter, and environments do affect equitable health.