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  • Access – Head Start

    Head Start is a program designed to help children from birth to age five who come from families at or below poverty level. The program’s goal is to help children become ready for kindergarten while also providing the needed requirements to thrive, including health care and food support. This indicator reports the number and rate…

  • Access – Child Care Cost Burden

    This indicator reports the childcare costs for a household with two children as a percentage of median household income. Data are acquired from the 2024&2023 Living Wage Calculator and Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates and are used in the 2025 County Health Rankings. Source United States Census Bureau, US Census Bureau – Small Area…

  • Access – Child Care Centers

    This indicator reports the number of childcare centers per 1,000 population under 5 years old. Data are acquired from the 2010-2022 Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) and are used in the 2025 County Health Rankings. Source Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data, 2010-2022. Source Description The HIFLD Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Subcommittee…

  • Debt – Any Debt in Collections

    This indicator reports data from a 2 percent nationally representative panel of deidentified, consumer-level records from a major credit bureau at the national, state, and county levels for the 50 states and Washington, DC, as of 2024, compiled by the Urban Institute. The share with any debt in collections and the median debt in collections…

  • Debt – Student Loan Debt

    This indicator reports data from a 2 percent nationally representative panel of deidentified, consumer-level records from a major credit bureau at the national, state, and county levels for the 50 states and Washington, DC, as of 2024, compiled by the Urban Institute. The share with any student loan debt, as well as the median student…

  • Income – Transfer Payments

    In personal income, transfer receipts are benefits received by persons for which no current services are performed. They are payments by government and business to individuals and non-profit institutions. Specifically, transfer payment income encompasses all receipts from: Retirement and disability; Medical benefits; Income maintenance benefits (SSI, EITC, SNAP, etc.); Unemployment; Veterans’ benefits; Education and training…

  • Income – Public Assistance Income

    This indicator reports the percentage households receiving public assistance income. Public assistance income includes general assistance and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). Separate payments received for hospital or other medical care (vendor payments) are excluded. This does not include Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or noncash benefits such as Food Stamps. Source US Census Bureau,…

  • Income – Earned Income Tax Credit

    The indicator reports information about tax filers claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Data are obtained through an analysis of the IRS Statistics of Income (SOI) data tables. Source IRS – Statistics of Income, 2022. Source Description The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) produces numerous studies which provide statistics on income, deductions, tax, and credits…