Monitor your community’s health, download data to write grants or reports, know the context for local headlines, or make some headlines yourself. Use the many sources of county-level summary health data that are free and easy to access. Find information on births and infant deaths from vital records data, socioeconomic factors from the US Census Bureau, health risk measures from YRBS and BRFSS, health care data from AHRQ’s HCUP-net (community). Explore “data windows” that assemble data from multiple sources, such as County Health Rankings, the CDC’s 500-cities project, and more. Sources data are free and open to the public.
- Births and infant deaths (fetal deaths do not have county identifiers)
- The United States Census and County SES
- The CDC’s PLACES: Local Data for Better Health
- Youth Risk Behaviors by state and school district
- County Health Rankings include BRFSS, vital records, and census data
- Health Resources and Services Administration
- UDS Mapper includes point of service health care facilities and ZCTA-level data about population and need from the American Community Survey, HRSA, BRFSS, CMS, SAMHSA
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
- Social, economic, crime, weather, etc. (see what realtors look at)
- IPUMS Federally Funded Sources of Census Data
- Diversity Data Kids – Data Sets
Sources of National and State-Level MCH Data
- CAHMI – National Survey of Children’s Health
- NSFG – National Survey of Family Growth
- PRAMS – CDC’s Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System