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.
Food Hubs
Layer displays the location of food hubs across the US. Data was obtained from the USDA Local Food Directories on July 12, 2025.
Community Water System Fluoridation
This layer displays fluoridation data generated from the Water Fluoridation Reporting System (WFRS) as reported to the CDC. State level statistics include data from the biennial report originally published at https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/php/statistics/. State and county data include percentage of people, number of people, and number of water systems receiving fluoridated water. County level data is not displayed for all states. Participation in sharing county level data is voluntary and state programs determine if data will be shown.
Chronic Wasting Disease
This layer displays the distribution of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) within the United States. Data only includes whether at least one case of CWD has been identified within a county and not the overall prevalence within a county.
Pulic Education Revenue, 2021-22
This layer data was obtained from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD) School District Finance Survey. The survey provides finance data for all local education agencies (LEAs) that provide free public elementary and secondary education in the United States. County-level data was generated by CARES by aggregating school-district level records with valid reported figures for total students and total revenue.
Revenues are gained by each public school district through federal, state, and local funding.
Unemployment – July
The Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program is a federal-state cooperative effort in which monthly estimates of total employment and unemployment are prepared for over 7,500 areas. These estimates are key indicators of local economic conditions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is responsible for the concepts, definitions, technical procedures, validation, and publication of the estimates that state workforce agencies prepare under agreement with BLS.
Rural-Urban Commuting Zones
The USDA, Economic Research Service’s (ERS) Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) codes are a classification scheme allowing for flexible, census tract delineation of rural and urban areas throughout the United States and its territories. RUCA codes were designed to address a major limitation associated with county-based classifications; they are often too large to accurately delineate boundaries between rural and urban areas. The more geographically-detailed information provided by RUCA codes can be used to improve rural research and policy—such as addressing concerns that remote, rural communities in large metropolitan counties are not eligible for some rural assistance programs.
The RUCA codes consist of two levels. The primary RUCA codes establish urban cores and the census tracts that are the most economically integrated with those cores through commuting. The secondary RUCA codes indicate whether a census tract has a strong secondary connection (through commuting) to an even larger urban core. For more information, visit the “RUCA website” here.