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.

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).

Harassment or Bullying

This layer displays information about public school students of allegations of harassment or bullying on the basis of sex; race, color, national origin; disability; sexual orientation; and religion from the U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC).

FCC Fabric Location Data, Pct Meeting 25/3+ MBPS December 2024

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).

Health Professional Shortage Areas and Components

This layer displays the location and characteristics of Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) components. The HPSA component layer is different from other HPSA layers in that each HPSA is broken down from irregular geographic areas, like service areas, to standard census geographic areas – census tracts, county subdivisions, and counties. Data are current as of April 28, 2025.

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.

Facilities Designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas

This layer displays the location and characteristics of institutional HPSAs, or Health Professional Shortage Areas. HPSA facilities are designated by HRSA as having shortages of primary medical care, dental or mental health providers and consist of comprehensive health centers, federally qualified health centers or other public facilities. Data are current as of April 28, 2025.

Non-Specialized Counties

Non-specialized counties are those that did not have a high concentration of earnings or jobs in any one of farming, mining, manufacturing, or Federal and State Government and did not have a high concentration of economic activity (as measured using a weighted index) in recreation. Metropolitan and non metropolitan areas are based on the U.S. Office of Management and Budget 2023 delineation of core based statistical areas.

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.