Data have been updated to the most recent time period (2017-2019). Single-year trends are now available for years 2012-2019.
Correction made to state and national estimates for Access to Primary Care indicator.
An error was identified following the 2/17/20 update of the Primary Care Physicians indicator. Following the update, a change in the underlying data resulted in population totals being doubled and rates halved for state and national-level calculations. Values for individual counties and custom report areas were unaffected. This error has been corrected.
New maps and data now available for Student Reading Proficiency indicator.
New estimates for the 2017-2018 school year were acquired from the U.S. Department of Education EDFacts program (replacing estimates from the 2015-16 school year).
New maps and data now available for Access to Primary Care indicator.
New data for 2017 acquired from the 2018-19 Area Health Resources File (AHRF) (replacing data for 2016). Affected indicators:
Clinical Care
- Access to Primary Care
New maps and data now available for indicators from the Small Area Income and Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) program.
New maps and data now available for indicators from the 2018 US Census Bureau’s SAHIE program (replacing data for 2017). Annual data depicting trends over time is now available for counties, states, and the US for years 2011 through 2018. Affected indicators:
- Uninsured Population – Adults Age 18-64
New maps and data for tree canopy coverage coverage provided by the National Land Cover Database (NLCD)
NLCD tree canopy cover is a 30 m raster geospatial dataset that is available for the conterminous United States, coastal Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. These data contain percent tree canopy estimates, as a continuous variable, for each pixel across all land covers and types and are generated by the United States Forest Service (USFS).
New maps and data now available for indicators from the Small Area Income and Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) program.
New maps and data now available for indicators from the 2018 US Census Bureau’s SAHIE program (replacing data for 2017). Annual data depicting trends over time is now available for counties, states, and the US for years 2011 through 2018. Affected indicators:
- Uninsured Population – Under Age 18
New maps and data now available for population demographic and socioeconomic characteristics from the US Census Bureau’s American Communuity Survey (ACS).
American Community Survey data for the 2014-18 five-year period has been processed and released! These updates replace previous indicator data from the 2013-2017 five-year period.
New maps and data now available for indicators from the Small Area Income and Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) program.
New maps and data now available for indicators from the 2018 US Census Bureau’s SAHIE program (replacing data for 2017). Annual data depicting trends over time is now available for counties, states, and the US for years 2011 through 2018. Affected indicators:
- Uninsured Population – Total (Under Age 65)
New maps and data now available for Federally Qualified Health Centers
This indicator reports the number of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in the community. This indicator is relevant because FQHCs are community assets that provide health care to vulnerable populations; they receive extra funding from the federal government to promote access to ambulatory care in areas designated as medically underserved.