100 500 Cities: Local Data for Better Health

100.1 Organization

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

This dataset includes model-based small area estimates for 27 measures of chronic disease related to unhealthy behaviors (5), health outcomes (13), and use of preventive services (9).
It includes prevalence estimates (crude and age-adjusted) for the 500 largest US cities and approximately 28,000 census tracts within these cities.
These estimates can be used to identify emerging health problems and to inform development and implementation of effective, targeted public health prevention activities.
Because the small area model cannot detect effects due to local interventions, users are cautioned against using these estimates for program or policy evaluations

Annual from 2016 to 2019

US, City or Census Tract-level

Data were provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Population Health, Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch.
Data sources used to generate the 2017 release measures include Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data (2015, 2014), Census Bureau 2010 census population data, and American Community Survey (ACS) 2011-2015, 2010-2014 estimates.
Includes data from 500 cities consisting of ~28,000 census tracts. The number of cities per state ranges from 1 to 121.
The project includes a total population of 103,020,808, which represents 33.4% of the total United States population of 308,745,538.