Achieving health equity using local data on disparities in health & community conditions
We provide over 150 community health indicators, along with comparisons, trends and related data.
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The Health Equity Index is a measure of socioeconomic need that is correlated with poor health outcomes.
View all indicators that include breakout data by topics such as race/ethnicity, age, and gender.
The demographic dashboard includes basic demographic information about your community covering topics like population, education and poverty.
Healthy People provides a framework for prevention for communities in the U.S. Healthy People 2030 is a comprehensive set of key disease prevention and health promotion objectives. The health objectives and targets allow communities to assess their health status and build an agenda for community health improvement.
Where does our data come from?
The data comes from a variety of state and national sources, including the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control, the American Community Survey and many state-specific sources. Most of the data is reported on an annual basis. Each indicator page includes the source of the data, the URL of the source, and when this data was last updated.
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In Focus
Life Expectancy
Life expectancy is a summary mortality measure often used to describe the overall health status of a population. Life expectancy is defined as the average number of years a population of a certain age would be expected to live, given a set of age-specific death rates in a given year.
82.5 years
This indicator shows the life expectancy at birth in years. This represents the average number of years a person can expect to live.
Data Source: U.S. Small-Area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP)
