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PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, County Data 2021 release

Metadata Updated: June 28, 2025

This dataset contains model-based county-level estimates for the PLACES 2021 release. PLACES is the expansion of the original 500 Cities Project and covers the entire United States—50 states and the District of Columbia (DC)—at county, place, census tract, and ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) levels. It represents a first-of-its kind effort to release information uniformly on this large scale for local areas at 4 geographic levels. Estimates were provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Population Health, Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch. PLACES was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in conjunction with the CDC Foundation. The dataset includes estimates for 29 measures: 4 chronic disease-related health risk behaviors, 13 health outcomes, 3 health status, and 9 on using preventive services. These estimates can be used to identify emerging health problems and to help develop and carry out 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. Data sources used to generate these model-based estimates include Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2019 or 2018 data, Census Bureau 2019 or 2018 county population estimate data, and American Community Survey (ACS) 2015–2019 or 2014–2018 estimates. The 2021 release uses 2019 BRFSS data for 22 measures and 2018 BRFSS data for 7 measures (all teeth lost, dental visits, mammograms, cervical cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening, core preventive services among older adults, and sleeping less than 7 hours a night). Seven measures are based on the 2018 BRFSS because the relevant questions are only asked every other year in the BRFSS. More information about the methodology can be found at www.cdc.gov/places.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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References

https://www.cdc.gov/places/measure-definitions/index.html

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 16, 2022
Metadata Updated Date June 28, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from Healthdata.gov

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 16, 2022
Metadata Updated Date June 28, 2025
Publisher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.cdc.gov/api/views/pqpp-u99h
Data First Published 2022-10-11
Data Last Modified 2023-08-25
Category 500 Cities & Places
Public Access Level public
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Data Dictionary https://chronicdata.cdc.gov/dataset/PLACES-Local-Data-for-Better-Health-County-Data-20/swc5-untb
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Program Code 009:020
Related Documents https://www.cdc.gov/places/measure-definitions/index.html
Source Datajson Identifier True
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