Health

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A primary resource for county health data:
http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/

Find treatment centers:
https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/

CDC?s portal for health statistics:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

An interactive data tool that allows users to explore data and technical information related to the Healthy People 2020 objectives:
https://www.healthypeople.gov/

The Dartmouth Atlas Project documents glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States.
http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/

Economic Development

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Self Sufficiency Calculator-A budget-based measure of the real cost of living and an alternative to the federal poverty measure by state.

http://www.selfsufficiencystandard.org/

The Net Income Change Calculator (NICC) calculates a family’s income at different earnings levels considering the effects of payroll taxes, income taxes, tax credits, child care expenses, and cash and in-kind benefits according to current federal and state policies.

http://nicc.urban.org/netincomecalculator/

The Living Wage calculator estimates the cost of living in your community or region.

http://livingwage.mit.edu/

A snapshot of local economic indicators:

http://economictoolbox.mit.edu/

Program evaluation resource that highlights youth programs with strong evidence for success:

http://www.blueprintsprograms.com/

Map the meal gap:

http://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2014/overall

Housing and Transportation

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Map the rental housing crisis in the US:

http://apps.urban.org/features/rental-housing-crisis-map/

The Census Bureau’s updated estimates of income and poverty statistics for use by federal programs and the allocation of federal funds to local jurisdictions:

https://www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/

Comprehensive housing affordability strategy:

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/cp/CHAS/data_querytool_chas.html

Housing and transportation cost index:

http://htaindex.cnt.org/

A city’s walk score:

https://www.walkscore.com

Education

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A primary source for federal, state, and local data on child and family well-being:

http://datacenter.kidscount.org/

Database of evidence-based educational support programs:

http://www.blueprintsprograms.com/

School information and parenting resources:

http://www.greatschools.org/

 

Child Welfare

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A primary source for federal, state, and local data on child and family well-being: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/

Map the geography of opportunity for children in the 100 largest cities in the U.S.:  http://www.diversitydatakids.org/data/childopportunitymap

Map the federal funds coming to your area and evaluate programs:?http://youth.gov/

State-by-state policy information on a range of child welfare topics:
http://www.childwelfarepolicy.org/

Hundreds of measures of child wellbeing and policy analysis:
http://www.diversitydatakids.org/

Case-level information on all children in foster care and those who have been adopted: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/research-data-technology/statistics-research/afcars