 December 14, 2020 |
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Expansion of 500 Cities to PLACES |
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CDC expands local area health estimates to include data for the entire U.S.  |
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PLACES Now Live! – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of Population Health in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is excited to announce the launch of the PLACES Project (available at www.cdc.gov/places). PLACES (Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates), an expansion of the 500 Cities Project, is the first-of-its-kind effort to release estimates, obtained using model-based small area estimation methods, for 27 chronic disease measures for 4 geographic levels: U.S. counties, incorporated and census-designated places, census tracts, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs). The project bolsters the availability of health data for small areas within large and small cities and rural areas and will aid in developing and implementing effective and targeted public health prevention efforts. The public, interactive PLACES website allows users to view, explore, and download uniform county-, place-, tract-, and ZCTA-level data for all areas with population ≥ 50 in the U.S. PLACES is a partnership between the CDC, the CDC Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Please direct any questions to PLACES@cdc.gov. |
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