Attainment – Overview

Source US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019-23. Source Description The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide survey designed to provide communities with reliable and timely social, economic, housing, and demographic data every year. The ACS has an annual sample size of about 3.5 million addresses, with survey information collected nearly every day of…

Attainment – Associate’s Level Degree or Higher

This indicator reports the percentage of the population aged 25 and older obtaining an Associate’s level degree or higher. This indicator is relevant because educational attainment is a key driver of population health. Source US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019-23. Source Description The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide survey designed to provide…

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 – Childcare Cost Burden

This indicator reports the childcare costs for a household with two children as a percent 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 Small Area Income and…

Access – Enrollment (Age 5-17)

This indicator reports the percentage of the population age 5-17 that is enrolled in school. This indicator helps identify places where K-12 school opportunities are either abundant or lacking in the educational system. Source US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019-23. Source Description The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide survey designed to provide…

Access – Public Schools

Public Schools – Elementary This indicator reports the top 10 largest public elementary schools by student enrollment in the report area. Source National Center for Education Statistics, NCES – Common Core of Data, 2022-2023. Source Description The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data related…

Poverty – Poverty Profile

This indicator reports the percentage of the total population living in households with incomes at various thresholds relative to the Federal Poverty Level (FPL). The Federal Poverty Level is updated each year and varies by household size and state (there is one set of thresholds for the contiguous states – Alaska and Hawaii thresholds are…

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 2023, compiled by the Urban Institute. The share with any student loan debt, as well as the median student…