Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Statistics and data
Kansas HPSA Map
A county-level interactive map that shows primary care, mental, and dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) in Kansas. Includes information on mental health catchment areas and HPSA designation status. Allows user to search HPSAs by inputting a specific address.
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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A county-level interactive map that shows primary care, mental, and dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) in Kansas. Includes information on mental health catchment areas and HPSA designation status. Allows user to search HPSAs by inputting a specific address.
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Rural Data Gateway
An information and data portal supporting USDA Rural Development (RD) partnerships with rural communities, entrepreneurs, and government by providing access to RD's financial support in rural America. Offers Rural Investment Dashboards highlighting RD programs and investments to help people in vulnerable rural communities access needed resources for housing, infrastructure, local business, and community development. Data also assists users when analyzing RD investment trends in states, counties, and congressional districts.
Sponsoring organization: USDA Rural Development
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An information and data portal supporting USDA Rural Development (RD) partnerships with rural communities, entrepreneurs, and government by providing access to RD's financial support in rural America. Offers Rural Investment Dashboards highlighting RD programs and investments to help people in vulnerable rural communities access needed resources for housing, infrastructure, local business, and community development. Data also assists users when analyzing RD investment trends in states, counties, and congressional districts.
Sponsoring organization: USDA Rural Development
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Missouri Hospital Association Health Equity Dashboards
A dashboard that provides county-level data on health disparities in Missouri, including social determinants of health (SDOH), maternal and child health, risk behaviors, health outcomes, physical health and disease status, behavioral health, and frailty/disabilities. User can select for race/ethnicity and one or more counties for data.
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Hospital Association
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A dashboard that provides county-level data on health disparities in Missouri, including social determinants of health (SDOH), maternal and child health, risk behaviors, health outcomes, physical health and disease status, behavioral health, and frailty/disabilities. User can select for race/ethnicity and one or more counties for data.
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Hospital Association
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Michigan Overdose Data to Action Dashboard
An interactive tool that shows Michigan overdose data along with community resources and social determinants of health. Includes information on mortality, treatment episodes, naloxone orders/sites, opioid prescriptions, buprenorphine prescriptions, and more. Provides data by month, quarter, year, race/ethnicity, and county.
Sponsoring organization: Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
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An interactive tool that shows Michigan overdose data along with community resources and social determinants of health. Includes information on mortality, treatment episodes, naloxone orders/sites, opioid prescriptions, buprenorphine prescriptions, and more. Provides data by month, quarter, year, race/ethnicity, and county.
Sponsoring organization: Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
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Bureau of Health Workforce Field Strength and Students and Trainees Dashboards
Data tools and information related to the National Health Service Corps, Nurse Corps, and Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program participants. Allows users to access subsets of data by filtering on various program, location, shortage designation, and site attributes, including rural location. Offers insight into disciplines and school locations of future clinicians preparing to serve in shortage areas across the country.
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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Data tools and information related to the National Health Service Corps, Nurse Corps, and Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program participants. Allows users to access subsets of data by filtering on various program, location, shortage designation, and site attributes, including rural location. Offers insight into disciplines and school locations of future clinicians preparing to serve in shortage areas across the country.
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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SparkMap's Community Assessment Tool
Allows user to select data indicators such as demographics, economics, housing, education, health behaviors and indicators, healthcare workforce, and more by state and county to create a community assessment report. Utilizes data from multiple geographical levels and housed with the US Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Transportation, and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Sponsoring organization: Center for Applied Research and Engagement Systems
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Allows user to select data indicators such as demographics, economics, housing, education, health behaviors and indicators, healthcare workforce, and more by state and county to create a community assessment report. Utilizes data from multiple geographical levels and housed with the US Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Transportation, and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Sponsoring organization: Center for Applied Research and Engagement Systems
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Specialty Physician Supply and Demand Tool
Offers a method for generating reports and maps demonstrating state and county physician supply and demand by specialty including family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, cardiology, neurology, and psychiatry.
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Rural Health Works
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Offers a method for generating reports and maps demonstrating state and county physician supply and demand by specialty including family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, cardiology, neurology, and psychiatry.
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Rural Health Works
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Poverty Area Measures
Provides access to poverty area measures for counties and census tracts covering high poverty, extreme poverty, persistent poverty, and enduring poverty. Includes Decennial Census data for 1960 (county) or 1970 (census tract) through 2000 and for American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year periods of 2007-11, 2015-19, and 2017-21. Available in spreadsheet format.
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
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Provides access to poverty area measures for counties and census tracts covering high poverty, extreme poverty, persistent poverty, and enduring poverty. Includes Decennial Census data for 1960 (county) or 1970 (census tract) through 2000 and for American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year periods of 2007-11, 2015-19, and 2017-21. Available in spreadsheet format.
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
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In-Person Marketplace Enrollment Efforts in North Carolina
A dashboard that shows county-level marketplace insurance enrollment eligibility in North Carolina. Includes a scatter plot map that shows the relationship between eligibility rates and enrollment rates by rural, suburban, and urban location, as well as a map showing areas in North Carolina that have had assister events such as education or enrollment outreach.
Sponsoring organization: The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
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A dashboard that shows county-level marketplace insurance enrollment eligibility in North Carolina. Includes a scatter plot map that shows the relationship between eligibility rates and enrollment rates by rural, suburban, and urban location, as well as a map showing areas in North Carolina that have had assister events such as education or enrollment outreach.
Sponsoring organization: The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
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Advancing Prosperity in Rural Indiana: Seven Priorities for Creating Thriving Rural Places, Businesses, and Families
Outlines the priorities for supporting rural Indiana such as providing citizens with essential goods and services, employment opportunities, broadband connection, housing, access to child care, and more. Includes data on rural versus urban population changes, median income, unemployment, immigration, poverty, mental stress, commute time, housing costs, internet access, education, and county-level percentages related to volunteering, population, job automation risk, and more.
Author(s): Carl Rist, Allan Freyer
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute
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Outlines the priorities for supporting rural Indiana such as providing citizens with essential goods and services, employment opportunities, broadband connection, housing, access to child care, and more. Includes data on rural versus urban population changes, median income, unemployment, immigration, poverty, mental stress, commute time, housing costs, internet access, education, and county-level percentages related to volunteering, population, job automation risk, and more.
Author(s): Carl Rist, Allan Freyer
Sponsoring organization: Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute
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