New maps and data now available for Drought Severity indicator.
Data have been updated to the most recent time period (2017-2019). Single-year trends are now available for years 2012-2019.
Correction made to state and national estimates for Access to Primary Care indicator.
An error was identified following the 2/17/20 update of the Primary Care Physicians indicator. Following the update, a change in the underlying data resulted in population totals being doubled and rates halved for state and national-level calculations. Values for individual counties and custom report areas were unaffected. This error has been corrected.
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 Student Reading Proficiency indicator.
New estimates for the 2017-2018 school year were acquired from the U.S. Department of Education EDFacts program (replacing estimates from the 2015-16 school year).
New maps and data now available for Access to Primary Care indicator.
New data for 2017 acquired from the 2018-19 Area Health Resources File (AHRF) (replacing data for 2016). Affected indicators: Clinical Care Access to Primary Care
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 – Adults Age 18-64
New maps and data for tree canopy coverage coverage provided by the National Land Cover Database (NLCD)
NLCD tree canopy cover is a 30 m raster geospatial dataset that is available for the conterminous United States, coastal Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. These data contain percent tree canopy estimates, as a continuous variable, for each pixel across all land covers and types and are generated by the United States Forest Service (USFS).