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Health Data for Island County

Assessment & Healthy Communities staff have access to numerous local, state and national databases to provide data on the health of Island County residents.

Types of Data Available

Look at our 'Published Reports' and 'Other Data Sources' for examples. Most common requests include:

Population estimates
Vital statistics (births and deaths)
Hospitalizations
Health behaviors

For much of our information on health behaviors and risks we use the following data sources to provide county, and when possible sub-county, estimates:

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Healthy Youth Survey (HYS)
American Community Survey (ACS)/U.S.Census

If what you're looking for is not already available, our data request service assists users by performing customized analyses of the data sets we have available. See 'Data Requests' below for more information on requesting custom analyses.

Data Requests

Data requests may be submitted by any member of the public. Requests are frequently made for the following purposes:

Grant applications
Strategic planning
Program evaluation

Email Laura Luginbill to learn more or request data. See King County's Data Request Service page for recommendations on submitting an effective data request.