SCHS: County Health Data Book
2024 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 2024 County Health Data Book are considered current for community health assessments and state of the county health reports.
Data from the County Data Book are available below for download.
Pregnancy and Live Births
- 2018-2022 Pregnancy Rates per 1,000 Population, by Race/Ethnicity for Females 15-17, 15-19 and 15-44
- 2018-2022 Fertility Rates per 1,000 Population, by Race/Ethnicity for Females 15-17, 15-19 and 15-44
- 2018-2022 Abortion Rates per 1,000 Population, by Race/Ethnicity for Females 15-17, 15-19 and 15-44
- Live Birth Rates per 1,000 Population, 2018-2022
- 2018-2022 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
- 2018-2022 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, 2018-2022
- Births Delivered by Cesarean Section, 2018-2022
- Births Delivered by Gestation, 2018-2022
- Births Where Mothers Smoked During Pregnancy, 2018-2022
- Births to Medicaid and WIC Mothers, 2017-2021
- Birth Indicator Tables by State and County:
Mortality
- Fetal Death Rates per 1000 Deliveries, 2018-2022 (RTF, 445 KB)
- Neonatal (<28 Days) Death Rates per 1000 Live Births, 2018-2022 (RTF, 451 KB)
- Postneonatal (28 Days - 1 Year) Death Rates per 1000 Live Births, 2018-2022 (RTF, 454 KB)
- Infant Death Rates per 1,000 Live Births by Race/Ethnicity, 2018-2022 (RTF, 447 KB)
- Unadjusted Child Death Rates per 100,000 Population, 2018-2022
- Unadjusted Death Rates per 100,000 Population, 2022 and 2018-2022
- Death Counts and Crude Death Rates per 100,000 Population for Leading Causes of Death, by Age Groups NC 2018-2022 (RTF, 7 MB)
- Poisoning Mortalilty Rates per 100,000, 2018-2022
- 2018-2022 Race-Sex-Specific Age-Adjusted Death Rates by County
- 2018-2022 Race-Specific and Sex-Specific Age-Adjusted Death Rates by County
Morbidity
- 2017-2021 NC Cancer Incidence Rates per 100,000 Population Age-Adjusted to the 2000 US Population (PDF, 192 KB)
- Projected New Cancer Cases and Deaths by County, 2024 (PDF, 173 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.
- Sheps Center for Health Services Research Data
- 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]. If you have other questions or need clarification/assistance with the community health assessment process, contact your Local Technical Assistance and Training (LTAT) Nurse Consultant.
Note on Rates
Rates presented here utilize the Population Division of the Census Bureau’s Vintage 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.
Last Modified: April 22, 2025