County Health Data Book

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. The data in the 2022 County Health Data Book are considered current for community health assessments and state of the county health reports due the first Monday of March, 2022.

Data from the County Data Book are available below for download.

Population

• July 1, 2020 Population Estimates by Age, Race, and Sex(Word Document - 3.7 MB)

Pregnancy and Live Births

• 2016-2020 Pregnancy Rates per 1,000 Population, by Race/Ethnicity for Females 15-17(Word 454 KB), 15-19(Word 441 KB) and 15-44(Word 425 KB)
• 2016-2020 Fertility Rates per 1,000 Population, by Race/Ethnicity for Females 15-17(Word 456 KB), 15-19(Word 442 KB) and 15-44(Word 425 KB)
• 2016-2020 Abortion Rates per 1,000 Population, by Race/Ethnicity for Females 15-17(Word 472 KB), 15-19(Word 457 KB) and 15-44(Word 436 KB)
• Live Birth Rates per 1,000 Population, 2016-2020
• 2016-2020 Number At Risk NC Live Births due to High Parity by County of Residence: Age of Mother Under 30 and Age of Mother 30 or More
• 2016-2020 NC Live Births by County of Residence; Number with Interval from Last Delivery to Conception of Six Months or Less
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• Births Delivered by Cesarean Section, 2016-2020
• Births Delivered by Gestation, 2016-2020
• Births Where Mothers Smoked During Pregnancy, 2016-2020
• Births to Medicaid and WIC Mothers, 2015-2019
• Birth Indicator Tables by State and County:

Life Expectancy

• Life Expectancy at Birth for State, 2020 and County, 2018-2020
• Years of Potential Life Lost, Totals and by Sex, 2016-2020(PDF 857 KB)

Mortality

• Fetal Death Rates per 1000 Deliveries, 2016-2020(Word 446 KB)
• Neonatal ( (Word 449 KB)
• Postneonatal (28 Days - 1 Year) Death Rates per 1000 Live Births, 2016-2020(Word 453 KB)
• Infant Death Rates per 1,000 Live Births by Race/Ethnicity, 2016-2020(Word 444 KB)
• Unadjusted Child Death Rates per 100,000 Population, 2016-2020
• Unadjusted Death Rates per 100,000 Population, 2020 and 2016-2020
• Death Counts and Crude Death Rates per 100,000 Population for Leading Causes of Death, by Age Groups NC 2016-2020(Word 7 MB)
• Unintentional Poisoning Mortalilty Rates per 100,000, 2016-2020
• 2016-2020 Race-Sex-Specific Age-Adjusted Death Rates by County(Word 11.2 MB)
• 2016-2020 Race-Specific and Sex-Specific Age-Adjusted Death Rates by County(Word 8.3 MB)

Morbidity

• 2013-2017 NC Cancer Incidence Rates per 100,000 Population Age-Adjusted to the 2000 US Population(Excel Spreadsheet - 39 KB)
• Projected New Cancer Cases and Deaths by County, 2020(Excel Spreadsheet 29 KB)

Web Links for Data Related to Community Health Assessment

Due to reduced staff devoted to Community Health Assessment activities, the State Center for Health Statistics is no longer able to compile data from other agencies. We provide web links below for much of the data from external agencies that were included in previous data books.

• LINC (Log Into North Carolina): A wide array of data for North Carolina and all 100 counties.
• Health Manpower and Other Health-Related Data (from the Sheps Center for Health Services Research)
• Education Data (from the NC Department of Public Instruction)
• Data Related to Child Health and Well-Being (from Action for Children North Carolina)
• Crime Data (from the State Bureau of Investigation; see Crime Statistics)

For questions related to these data, contact [email protected] .

Note on Rates

Rates presented here utilize the National Center for Health Statistics Bridged population estimates. Population estimates are periodically modified based on the best available information. Therefore, rates presented in this report may vary over time as revised population estimates become available.

Note on Data

Data may include revisions and, therefore, may differ from data previously published in this report and other publications.