The Public Health Community Health Indicators Project is a set of indicators measuring the health of King County residents.

It was developed to provide a broad array of comprehensive, population-based data to community-based organizations, community clinics, public agencies, policymakers and the general public in an accessible format. Community Health Indicators were conceived as a follow-up to the 2002 Institute of Medicine report, The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century, which emphasizes relying on data about the entire community to look at multiple determinants of health. 

Our indicators are organized into the following subject areas:

• Access to Care
• Air Quality
• Comparison Counties
• Health Outcomes
• Physical Determinants
• Risk Factors
• Social Determinants

Within each subject area, indicators are arranged by topic. Each topic has one or more indicators.

The Community Health Indicators project presents available data for these health determinants. For each indicator, linked tables, maps and charts present the most recent data, trend over time, demographic comparisons, neighborhood-level data, comparisons to other metropolitan counties and the related Healthy People 2010 objective. The complete range of this data is not available for every measure.