Finding Information for a Community Health Assessment: North Carolina Data

The data snapshot provides information about uninsured individuals in North Carolina, including family income, race/ethnicity, workforce status, firm size, age, citizenship, rural/urban residence, health status, and industry.

Log Into North Carolina (LINC) is an interactive data retrieval service containing historical information for over 900 data items and a variety of geographic areas within the state. Topics include population, labor force, education, transportation, revenue, agriculture, vital statistics, energy and utilities, and other topics for a variety of geographic areas within the state. Most data are available for the state and all 100 counties. Some items are available for municipalities. Others, especially census data, may be retrieved for tracts and townships.

"The purpose of this annual publication is to heighten awareness of the health of our children by summarizing data on important child health indicators." Produced by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine.

Data on reported communicable disease cases by disease and county.

Public records, data, statistics, reports, and maps.

Developed at the Cecil G. Sheps Center at UNC Chapel Hill to collect and disseminate timely and reliable data on selected licensed health professionals in North Carolina.

Emergency department, hospital discharge, and mortality data to monitor the incidence of and risk factors for fatal and nonfatal injury.

The North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics is responsible for data collection, health-related research, production of reports and maintenance of a comprehensive collection of health statistics.

Consortium of agencies cooperating with the US Bureau of the Census to provide the public with data about the state and its component geographic areas.

Up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on more than 500 health topics from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Rankings based on behaviors, community and environment, policy and clinical care.

The Child Health Assessment and Monitoring Program (CHAMP) is the first survey of its kind in North Carolina to measure the health characteristics of children, ages 0 through 17. The CHAMP survey was first developed in the fall of 2004 and was implemented annually from 2005-2017. Conducted in both English and Spanish, the CHAMP surveys are were each year to meet the child health surveillance needs of North Carolina.

The State Center for Health Statistics creates the County Health Data Book on an annual basis to provide communities with quantitative data to support community health assessments.

Provides access to state reports, ranking each county within the states according to its health outcomes and multiple health factors. Each county can also drill down to see specific county-level data.

All Causes of Death, All Causes of Premature Mortality, and Ten Leading Causes of Death compiled for eastern counties and aggregated by 29 and 41 county groupings from the Center for Health Services Research & Development at East Carolina University.

Collection of key facts about physical activity, nutrition and obesity among North Carolina youth and adults. Data about children is available at the county level.

North Carolina decennial health objectives. One of the primary aims of this objective-setting process is to mobilize the state to achieve a common set of health objectives. For the year 2020, there are 40 objectives within 13 specific focus areas.

The Health Data Explorer provides access to health data for North Carolina counties in an interactive, user-friendly atlas of maps, tables, and charts. It allows users to select, visualize, explore and download data on major disease mortality, disparities between groups, social and economic factors, and health behaviors.

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics annual publications and special reports that include county level data.

US Census data for NC at the State, County, and City level.

The data snapshots provides information about uninsured individuals in North Carolina by age and county of residence.