2025 County Health Rankings Mortality and Health Care Providers Metrics Get Updated

Updated health care provider and mortality data from the 2025 County Health Rankings are now available, including the September 2025 provider data refresh and the November 2025 supplemental mortality update. Affected indicators: Clinical Care (September 2025 Update) Access to Dentists, 2023 Access to Mental Health Providers, 2025 Access to Primary Care Physicians, 2022 Access to…

Updated CDC obesity and physical inactivity maps and data now available (2004-2023)

New maps and data are now available for key CDC diabetes surveillance indicators, including adult obesity, and physical inactivity. As part of the 2025 data release, all county-level estimates have been updated using the CDC’s latest methods, and historical data have been recalculated back to 2004 to ensure consistent comparisons across years.

Child Opportunity Index 3.0-2023

The 2023 update of the Child Opportunity Index (COI 3.0) expands neighborhood-level data on children’s access to opportunity through 2023, incorporating enhanced indicators and improved data sources. This release refines measurement across 14 subdomains and standardizes values using the 2023 child population, offering a clearer picture of disparities in resources that shape children’s development. Because…

Non-Specialized Counties

Non-specialized counties are those that did not have a high concentration of earnings or jobs in any one of farming, mining, manufacturing, or Federal and State Government and did not have a high concentration of economic activity (as measured using a weighted index) in recreation. Metropolitan and non metropolitan areas are based on the U.S….