Persistent Poverty Counties

Persistent poverty counties are those where 20% or more of county residents were poor, measured by the 1990 and 2000 Decennial Censuses and in the 2007–11 and 2017–21 5-year American Community Surveys.

Mining Dependent Counties

Mining dependent counties are those where at least 11 percent of the county’s annual average earnings came from mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction or at least 7 percent of the annual average number of jobs in the county … Continued

Government Dependent Counties

Government dependent counties are those where at least 13 percent of the county’s annual average earnings came from Federal and State Government or at least 8 percent of the annual average number of jobs in the county came from Federal … Continued

Expenditures on Food and Related Items by County, 2024

These map layers display consumer expenditures per household by county from the ESRI 2024 consumer spending data survey. Data is available as average spent (dollar amount spent on a product or service divided by total number of households in an … Continued

Food Hubs

Layer displays the location of food hubs across the US. Data was obtained from the USDA Local Food Directories on July 12, 2025.

Community Water System Fluoridation

This layer displays fluoridation data generated from the Water Fluoridation Reporting System (WFRS) as reported to the CDC. State level statistics include data from the biennial report originally published at https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/php/statistics/. State and county data include percentage of people, number … Continued

Chronic Wasting Disease

This layer displays the distribution of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) within the United States. Data only includes whether at least one case of CWD has been identified within a county and not the overall prevalence within a county.

Pulic Education Revenue, 2021-22

This layer data was obtained from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD) School District Finance Survey. The survey provides finance data for all local education agencies (LEAs) that provide free public elementary and secondary … Continued