2013 County Health Data Book
North Carolina Community Health Assessment Process
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
State Center for Health Statistics
and the
Office of Healthy Carolinians/Health Education
December 2012
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.
Data from the County Data Book are available here for download from the web. Click on the links below to download the files to your computer.
In order to view some of the data, you will need Microsoft Excel or the free Microsoft Excel Viewer. For other reports you will need Microsoft Word or the free Viewer for Microsoft Word.
- Population
- April 1, 2011 Population Estimates by Age, Race, and Sex (Word Document - 3.7 MB)
- Pregnancy and
Live Births
- Pregnancies by County, 2011 (Word Document – 13.7MB)
- Pregnancy Rates per 1,000 Population for Girls Ages 15-17, by Race/Ethnicity, 2007-2011
- 2011 Pregnancy, Fertility, and Abortion Rates per 1,000 Population, by Race/Ethnicity for Females 15-19 and 15-44
- Live Birth Rates per 1,000 Population, 2007-2011
- 2007-2011 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
- 2007-2011 NC Live Births by County of Residence; Number with Interval from Last Delivery to Conception of Six Months or Less
- Low (<2500 grams) and Very Low (<1500 grams) Weight Births by Race/Ethnicity, 2007-2011
- Births Delivered by Cesarean Section, 2007-2011
- Mortality
- Fetal Death Rates per 1000 Deliveries, 2007-2011
- Neonatal (<28 Days) Death Rates per 1000 Live Births, 2007-2011
- Postneonatal (28 Days - 1 Year) Death Rates per 1000 Live Births, 2007-2011
- Infant Death Rates per 1,000 Live Births by Race/Ethnicity, 2007-2011
- Unadjusted Death Rates per 100,000 Population, 2011 and 2007-2011
- Death Counts and Crude Death Rates per 100,000 Population for Leading Causes of Death, by Age Groups NC 2007-2011 (Word Document - 7 MB)
- 2007-2011 Race-Sex-Specific Age-Adjusted Death Rates by County (Word Document – 9 MB)
- 2007-2011 Race-Specific and Sex-Specific Age-Adjusted Death Rates by County (Word Document – 7.1 MB)
- Morbidity
- Gonorrhea Cases and Rates per 100,000 Population, 2006-2010
- Primary and Secondary Syphilis Cases and Rates per 100,000 Population, 2006-2010
- 2005-2009 NC Cancer Incidence Rates per 100,000 Population Age-Adjusted to the 2000 US Population (Excel Spreadsheet - 35 KB)
- Inpatient Hospital Utilization and Charges by Principal Diagnosis, and County of Residence, NC 2011 (Word Document - 5.5 MB)
- Asthma Hospital Discharges (Total and Ages 0-14) per 100,000 Population, 2011
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. http://linc.state.nc.us/
- Health Manpower and Other Health-Related Data (from the Sheps Center for Health Services Research) http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu (see especially "Data available" near bottom of page)
- Education Data (from the NC Department of Public Instruction) http://www.ncpublicschools.org/data/reports/
- Data Related to Child Health and Well-Being (from Action for Children North Carolina) http://www.ncchild.org
- Crime Data (from the State Bureau of Investigation) http://crimereporting.ncdoj.gov (see Crime Statistics)
- A Resource Guide for Community Health Assessment
For questions related to these or other community assessment data, contact Eleanor Howell of the State Center for Health Statistics at 919-715-7475 or Eleanor.Howell@dhhs.nc.gov.
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.
The 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 and 1999 County Health Data Books are also available.
Page last updated December 04, 2012
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