2008 estimates from the BEA County Income and Employment Summary HealthLandscape. Bureau of Economic Analysis data released in April of 2010 are new estimates for 2008. The first part of Table CA04 presents the summary statistics: Personal income, nonfarm personal income, farm income, population (estimated as of July 1 of each year by the Census...

Economic Status Data are now available for fiscal years 2010 and 2011. The Appalachian region is home to 24.8 million people and consists of 420 counties across 13 states, stretching from New York and Pennsylvania in the northeast to Mississippi and Alabama in the south. Forty-two percent of the Region’s population is rural, compared with...

Two indicators from the American Community Survey (ACS) 2006-2008 Estimates are now available in HealthLandscape. The data on means of transportation to work refer to the principal mode of travel or type of conveyance that the worker usually used to get from home to work during the reference week. People who used different means of...

New data available in HealthLandscape! The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. Data provides the rate of selected offenses per 100,000 inhabitants for each state. Any comparisons of crime among different locales should take into consideration relevant factors in addition to the area’s crime statistics. Variables Affecting Crime provides more...

New data available in HealthLandscape! County-level data from the USDA Food Environment Atlas is now available in HealthLandscape. The Food Environment Atlas includes data on proximity to food stores and restaurants, food prices, nutrtion-related assistance programs, health, and community characteristics. These factors interact to influence food choices and diet quality. The Atlas was developed to...

New data available in HealthLandscape! HealthLandscape now contains 2009 data for Internet Crime Complaints by State and Internet Crime Perpetrators by State. The internet crime complaints data are 2009 state rates based on filings with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The internet crime perpetrators data are based only on filings where the perpetrator’s residence...