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Rural Health Information Hub

Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Statistics and data

Fatality Facts: Urban/Rural Comparison
Presents characteristics and differences of fatal motor vehicle crashes between rural and urban areas, with trend data since 1977.
Sponsoring organization: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: Highway Loss Data Institute
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Virginia Healthcare Workforce Data Findings
Provides a collection of health workforce reports for a wide range of professions in Virginia. Includes provider demographics, geographic distribution, income, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health Professions
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Mapping the Measure of America
State and county-level maps showing key health indicators related to access, health behaviors, and health outcomes. Also covers various social determinant of health indicators.
Sponsoring organization: Measure of America
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American Community Survey Narrative Profiles
Produces brief narrative reports for selected regions based on the most recent ACS 5-year estimates. Addresses education, disability status, age, poverty, and other topics. Reports can be generated for counties, towns, zip codes, census tracts, and more.
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
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Data.CMS.gov
Interactive tool for identifying Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data and information resources. Sources can be narrowed by the geographic level available, including state, county, rural and urban, and more. Sources can also be viewed by CMS program, topic, and setting of care.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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U.S. Health Map
Interactive map that provides county-level data by sex on life expectancy, mortality rates, and risk factors, including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, physical activity, cancer, alcohol use, and smoking.
Sponsoring organization: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
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National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
Provides access to results for this annual survey focused on substance abuse and mental health issues. Includes information on prevalence and services. Rural-specific data is available in detailed tables that list "geographic characteristics." Data is also made available by state and for regions within states.
Sponsoring organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Provides data on healthcare access, healthcare quality, health services utilization, cost, and payment methods. Also provides data on health insurance coverage, cost, scope, and breadth. Some topics include metropolitan and nonmetropolitan data.
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) AtlasPlus
Provides access to state and county-level data on HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. Also includes data on the social determinants of health and state-level data on the rural population.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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County Health Rankings and Roadmaps: Health Data
Provides interactive demographic and health data at the state and county level. Includes population health breakdowns related to topics such as length of life, quality of life, community conditions, physical environment, and social and economic factors. Shows percentage of rural residents according to selected geographic area.
Sponsoring organization: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
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