Finding Statistics and Data Related to Rural Health – Resources

Salud America! Health Equity Report Cards
Provides county-level reports with data relevant to supporting the health of Latino children. Each county profile compares the county to the state and nation on topics that include housing, transportation, poverty, healthcare, mental health, environmental issues, and access to healthy food and active spaces.
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AMA Health Workforce Mapper
Customizable, interactive tool for accessing healthcare workforce-related data. Includes data on physicians by specialty, as well as data on a wide range of other healthcare providers. Provides information on Health Professional Shortage Areas, hospital locations, population indicators, and patient health data such as morbidity and mortality rates, health behaviors and social environment, healthcare access, and quality data.
Sponsoring organizations: American Academy of Family Physicians, American Medical Association
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Mapping Broadband Health in America
Connect2Health mapping tool for visualizing broadband access, demographics, and health data at the national, state, and county levels. Includes a rural filter based on the percent of the population that is rural. Health topics include access to care, chronic disease, opioids, and maternal health.
Sponsoring organization: Federal Communications Commission
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Mapping Medicare Disparities
Provides access to county-level data and comparisons on disease prevalence, Medicare spending, hospital and emergency department utilization, preventive services, preventable hospitalizations, readmissions, and mortality rates for Medicare beneficiaries. Also offers 2018 and 2019 Medicare Advantage encounter data. Includes hospital-level quality of care and cost of care data and comparisons as well as social determinants of health data down to the census tract level.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Exploring Rural and Urban Mortality Differences
Offers a variety of data tables and online tools that display indicators of mortality rates by age, rurality, region, and sex to help researchers examine the impact of rurality on mortality.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Reform Policy Research Center
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Population Health Toolkit
Provides tools and resources to help Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Flex Coordinators, and rural health networks use a systems-based approach to move towards population health. Includes a readiness assessment tool to identify strengths and needs, and a data tool for accessing public health and hospital data by county and state.
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Resource Center
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Census Reporter
A web-based tool for accessing data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Search by location at various geographic levels. Provides a variety of charts and maps depicting demographics, socioeconomic factors, and other ACS data. A Knight News Challenge-funded project.
Additional links: Census Geographies for a Specific Address
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Medicare Part D Opioid Prescribing Mapping Tool
Interactive mapping tool identifies opioid prescription rates at the state, county, and ZIP code level for de-identified Medicare Part D claims in 2023. Also offers rural/urban opioid prescribing data, changes in prescribing rates in 1 year and 5 year increments, and hot spots and outliers in long-acting opioid prescribing.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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NACo County Explorer
Provides national maps showing county-level data on a wide range of indicators. Includes data related to health status, healthcare services, demographics, and the social determinants of health.
Sponsoring organization: National Association of Counties
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Net Migration Patterns for U.S. Counties
Access to county-level estimates of net migration by age, race, Hispanic-origin, and sex for each decade from 1950 to 2020. Offers customizable maps and charts.
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