Rural and urban health in the U.S.

Statistics report about rural and urban health in the U.S.

Rural and urban health in the U.S.

This report presents information about rural and urban, or metropolitan and nonmetropolitan, health in the United States. It presents some specific differences between rural and urban areas concerning health conditions, health care utilization and health insurance, and death rates.

Table of contents

Overview

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  • Basic Statistic Fertility rate in the U.S. from 2007 to 2017, by urbanization level
  • Basic Statistic Mean age at first birth in the U.S. from 2007 to 2017, by urbanization level
  • Basic Statistic U.S. adult tobacco product use in 2021, by metropolitan status
  • Basic Statistic Share of rural and urban U.S. adults who met physical activity guidelines 2008-2017
  • Basic Statistic COPD among U.S. adults as of 2017, by smoking status and urban-rural status
  • Premium Statistic U.S. children with a developmental disability 2015-2018, by condition and urbanicity
  • Basic Statistic Share of U.S. children vaccinated against influenza in 2019, by urbanization and age
  • Basic Statistic Share of COVID vaccinated adults in urban vs rural U.S. as of April 2021
  • Basic Statistic Importance of increasing federal funding for rural health research U.S. 2018
  • Basic Statistic Total rural health funding by the National Institutes for Health 2014-2024

Health care and insurance

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  • Basic Statistic Percentage of U.S. population without health insurance 1994-2019 by location
  • Premium Statistic Persons in the U.S. with private health insurance coverage 1984-2019 by location
  • Basic Statistic Percentage of U.S. adults with a usual place for medical care in 2017, by MSA status
  • Basic Statistic U.S. adults who had contact with a healthcare professional in 2017, by MSA status
  • Basic Statistic Percentage of adults with an unmet medical need due to cost U.S. 2017, by MSA status
  • Basic Statistic Percentage of adults who could not afford a prescription U.S. 2017, by MSA status
  • Premium Statistic Service use of U.S. children with a developmental disability 2015-2018, by urbanicity
  • Premium Statistic Persons with a dental visit in the past year 1997-2019, by location
  • Basic Statistic Dental visits among U.S. adults in the past year 2019, by urbanicity and gender
  • Premium Statistic Main purpose for using telehealth in the U.S. in 2021, by rural/urban living area
  • Premium Statistic Percentage of adults with at least one emergency room visit U.S. 2017, by MSA status

Death

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  • Basic Statistic Death rates in the U.S. from 1999 to 2019, by urban-rural classification
  • Premium Statistic Female death rates in the U.S. 1999-2019, by urban-rural classification
  • Basic Statistic Male death rates in the U.S. 1999-2019, by urban-rural classification
  • Basic Statistic Leading causes of death in the U.S. in 2019, by urban-rural classification
  • Premium Statistic Heart disease, cancer, CLRD death rates U.S. 1999-2019, by urban-rural classification
  • Basic Statistic Drowning death rates among children in the U.S. 1999 to 2019, by urban-rural status

Special: Drug overdose death

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  • Basic Statistic U.S. drug overdose deaths from 1999-2019, by urbanicity
  • Premium Statistic U.S. drug overdose death rate from 1999-2019, by urbanicity
  • Basic Statistic U.S. drug overdose death rate in 2020, by urbanicity and drug type
  • Premium Statistic U.S. drug overdose death rate in 2020, by urbanicity and gender
  • Premium Statistic U.S. drug overdose death rate in 2020, by urbanicity and ethnicity

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