New indicator published! Maps and data now available for the School Segregation Index indicator from the 2022 County Health Rankings.

The school segregation index data, which reports the extent to which students within different race and ethnicity groups are unevenly distributed across schools when compared with the racial and ethnic composition of the local population, are now available for the year of 2020-2021. Data were from the 2020-2021 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and are used for the 2022 County Health Rankings. The school segregation index are reported for US counties and states over the report period.

New maps and data now available for the Access to Mental Health Providers indicator from the 2022 County Health Rankings.

The new access to mental health providers data for the year of 2021 are now available (replacing data for 2020). Data were from the 2021 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) National Provider Identifier (NPI) downloadable file and are used for the 2022 County Health Rankings. Rate of mental health care providers per 100,000 population are reported for US counties and states over the report period.

New maps and data now available for the Access to Primary Care indicator from the 2022 County Health Rankings.

The new access to primary care providers data for the year of 2019 are now available (replacing data for 2018). Data were from the 2019 Area Health Resources Files (AHRF) and are used for the 2022 County Health Rankings. The rate of primary care physicians per 100,000 population are reported for US states and counties (data are suppressed for counties with population greater than 2,000 and 0 primary care physicians over the report period).

New maps and data are available for the NCES CCD indicator – Poverty – Children Eligible for Free/Reduced Price Lunch (2020-21).

New data on children eligible for free/reduced price lunch are available for the 2020-21 school year (replacing data for 2019-20). The yearly trend data since 2012-13 are also available. The data are from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey Data (2020-21) and are for each school. CARES data is point level for census tract and county of your selected area.