This layer displays the percentage of each county’s population (or low income population) living near a farmer’s market (defined as within a 3 mile radius in urban areas and a 10 mile radius in urban areas).
School Attendance Zones
This layer displays public school catchment boundaries (attendance zones) for select states and school districts across the United States. Data is from September 2013 and was acquired from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES).
Frontier and Remote (FAR) ZIP Code Areas
ERS has developed ZIP-code-level frontier and remote area (FAR) codes to aid research and policymaking. This version is based on 2010 Census population data and urban area boundaries.
Infant Mortality Rate by County
This layer displays information about infant mortality. Total births and infant mortality rates are 5-year averages acquired from the 2012 Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Area Resource File (ARF).
Physical Inactivity by County, 2012
Layer displays the estimated percentage of adults who do not participate in any leisure-time physical activity. These figures are multi-year modeled estimates based on survey data from the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
Premature Death Rate (Deaths Before Age 65)
This layer displays information about premature mortality, defined as deaths that occur before age 65. Toggle data types to view the disparity index score for this indicator, which measures the variation in death rates across racial/ethnic groups.
Adult Obesity by County, 2012
Layer displays the estimated percentage of adults who are obese across all counties in the United States. These figures are multi-year modeled estimates based on survey data from the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
Rural vs. Urban Household Poverty
This layer displays information about the difference between rural and urban childhood poverty across the United States. Data are based on census-tract level information from the 2008-12 American Community Survey. Census tracts are defined as urban or rural based on 2010 US Census Bureau definitions; tract level information is then aggregated to and displayed at the Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA) geographic level.
Fruit and Vegetable Expenditures
This layer displays census-tract level information about fruit and vegetables expenditures (as a percentage of total food-at-home expenditures). This layer has been updated to use the 2014 Consumer Buying Power data from Nielsen SiteReports.
Locations of Primary Care Physicians
This layer displays the locations of all primary care physicians who accept Medicare. Primary care physicians are those MDs or DOs specializing in family practice, general practice, pediatric medicine, or internal medicine. Data are from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician and Other Supplier 2012 Public Use File (PUF), which was released in April 2014, and from the 2013 CMS Physician Compare National Downloadable File.