New maps and data now available for High School Graduation Rate indicator. New estimates for the 2016-2017 school year were acquired from the US Department of Education (ED), replacing estimates from the previous school year. Trend-over-time is now available for this indicator!
New maps and data now available for 9 mortality indicators from the CDC WONDER Underlying Cause of Death Database.
New 5-year mortality rates for 2011-2015 are now available (replacing data for 2010-2014). Affected indicators:
Health Outcomes
- Mortality – Cancer
- Mortality – Heart Disease
- Mortality – Homicide
- Mortality – Coronary Heart Disease
- Mortality – Lung Disease
- Mortality – Motor Vehicle Accident
- Mortality – Stroke
- Mortality – Suicide
- Mortality – Unintentional Injury
New maps and data now available for Broadband Internet Access indicator!
Data has been updated to the most recent period (December 2017). Trend-over-time data is now available with this indicator!
New data! Updated data for Free and Reduced Price Lunch Eligibility from the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Data for school year 2015-2016 released from NCES (replacing data for school year 2014-2015). Affected indicators:
Social & Economic Factors
- Free and Reduced Price Lunch Student Eligibility
New maps and data now available for Premature Death indicator from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the University of Wisconsin’s County Health Rankings (CHR).
Data have been updated to the most recent 3-year period (2015-2017). Trend-over-time data is now available with this indicator!
Affected Indicators:
Health Outcomes
- Premature Death
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 2012-16 five-year period has been processed and released! These updates replace previous indicator data from the 2011-2015 five-year period. Data from previous years is accessible via saved “static” reports, or by searching the Community Commons Map Room.
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.
New maps and data now available for the Access to Mental Health Providers indicator from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) National Provider Identification (NPI) file and the University of Wisconsin’s County Health Rankings (CHR).
Data have been updated to the most recent time period (2019). Data are obtained from the the 2020 County Health Rankings, released on March 23, 2020. Affected Indicators:
- Access to Mental Health Providers
New maps and data now available for indicators from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD).
New data on violent crimes are available for the 2015-17 three-year period (replacing data for 2012-14). Violent crime includes murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault while property crimes include burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. Crime totals and rates are multi-year estimates for the three year period 2015-2017. County-level UCR files are based on agency records in a file obtained from the FBI that also provides aggregated county totals. NACJD inputs missing data and then aggregates the data to the county-level. Multi-year estimates are calculated by CARES.