The new school segregation index data are now available for the year of 2023-2024. Data were from the 2023-2024 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and are used for the 2025 County Health Rankings. This indicator reports the extent to which students within different race and ethnicity groups are unevenly distributed across schools when compared with…
The updated child mortality data for 2019–2022 are now available. This indicator reports the number of deaths among residents ages 0–19 per 100,000 population, based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics and used in the 2025 County Health Rankings. Data are suppressed for counties with fewer than 10 child deaths in the…
The childcare cost burden data for the year of 2024&2023 are now available. Data were from the 2024&2023 Living Wage Calculator and Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates and are used for the 2025 County Health Rankings. The childcare costs for a household with two children as a percent of median household income are reported for…
The new three-year average premature death data for the years of 2020-2022 are now available. Data were from the National Center for Health Statistics – Mortality Files (2020-2022) and are used for the 2025 County Health Rankings. The age-adjusted rate of potential life lost before age 75 per every 100,000 total population are reported for US…
The new excessive drinking data for the year of 2022 are now available (replacing data for 2021). Data were from the 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) annual survey and are used for the 2025 County Health Rankings. Percentage of adults self-reporting excessive drinking in the last 30 days are reported for US counties and…
The new access to mental health providers data for the year of 2023 are now available (replacing data for 2022). Data were from the 2023 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) National Provider Identifier (NPI) downloadable file and are used for the 2025 County Health Rankings. Rate of mental health care providers per 100,000 population…