This layer displays aggregated location based data from the FCC that’s gathered through the Broadband Data Collection program. The number of locations was derived from the number of unique location ids for each block group and aggregated up. Location ids may include multiple units which are not included in our calculations. The number of locations that meet broadband definitions are only for those locations served the required speeds by copper, cable, fiber, or licensed fixed wireless. Satellite, un-licensed fixed wireless, or ‘other’ are not included in our broadband calculations. A location is considered served by wireless alone if it meets the broadband definition (25/3+) by a wireless provider and is not served by any other technology type (not including satellite).
Medically Underserved Areas and Populations
This layer displays the location and characteristics of Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and Medically Underserved Areas and Populations (MUA/Ps). The HPSA layers show data for three themes: Designated Populations, Designated Types, and Clinical Scores. The MUA/P layer shows data by Designated Type. Data are current as of April 28, 2025.
Suspensions & Expulsions
This layer displays information about public school students receiving in-school or out-of-school suspensions or expulsions from the U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC).
Cancer Incidence Rates by County, 2017-2021
Layer displays cancer incidence rates (all sites) per 100,000 population by state and county. Additional map layers from this update include incidence rates for breast cancer, colon and rectum cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, and more.
Recreation Dependent Counties
Recreation dependent counties are determined by a weighted z-score of the factors listed was at least two-thirds of a standard deviation above the nonmetro mean (greater than or equal to 0.67) for: 1. Jobs in arts, entertainment, and recreation, accommodation and food services, and real estate and rental and leasing over the 3-year average of 2019, 2021, and 2022; 2. Earnings in in arts, entertainment, and recreation, accommodation and food services, and real estate and rental and leasing over the three-year average of 2019, 2021, and 2022; and 3. the percentage of vacant housing units for seasonal, recreational, or occasional use reported in the 2020 Decennial Census.
Library Access, 2022
This layer displays library visits per person living within the library service area per year. Data are obtained from the 2025 County Health Rankings.
Low Education Counties
Low education counties are those where at least 57 percent of residents ages 25 to 64 did not have any post-secondary education in the 2018–22 5-year American Community Survey (ACS). Metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas are based on the U.S. Office of Management and Budget 2023 delineation of core based statistical areas.
Child Mortality Rate by County, 2019-2022
This layer displays the number and rate of deaths among children under age 19 per 100,000 population. Indicator data are from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) Compressed Mortality File (CMF).
Manufacturing Dependent Counties
Manufacturing dependent counties are those where at least 25 percent of the county’s annual average earnings came from manufacturing or at least 17 percent of the annual average number of jobs in the county were in manufacturing over the 3-year average of 2019, 2021, and 2022.
Kidney Disease Mortality for 2019-23 by County
This layer displays nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis (kidney disease) mortality rates from the CDC’s National Vital Statistics System – Mortality database. Data are 5-year aggregates for 2019-23.