PLACES Data

Activities Publications Webinars

The PLACES data provides 27 indicators of adult health status, unhealthy behaviors, and prevention available for all counties, places (incorporated and census designated places), census tracts, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) across the United States. It is an extension of the original 500 Cities Project that provided data for just 500 largest US cities.

Related Activities:

2023 Equity Reports for all 169 Connecticut Towns, Join our statewide Advisory Council

November 10, 2023

DataHaven (New Haven - Connecticut)

The DataHaven Town Equity Reports provide access to relevant town-level information that is not available from any other source. They use new methods to disaggregate data from the 2020... [read more]

DataHaven and partners release the 2023 Community Wellbeing Index at the Connecticut State Capitol

November 10, 2023

DataHaven (New Haven - Connecticut)

Earlier this month, DataHaven and the Fairfield County, Greater Hartford, and Greater New Haven Community Foundations hosted a statewide event to release these landmark publications on quality of... [read more]

Five NNIP partners participate in new CDC Foundation project on equitable use of data

March 1, 2022

Community Information Now (CINow)   (San Antonio)
Data Driven Detroit (D3)   (Detroit)
University Center for Social and Urban Research   (Pittsburgh)
Neighborhood Nexus   (Atlanta)
DataWorks NC   (Durham)

The CDC Foundation has awarded five NNIP partners a $125,000 grant to participate in a multi-city initiative to promote equitable data use for healthy communities. Grantees include... [read more]

Guide to Data Chats: Convening Community Conversations with Data and Supplemental Materials

June 2, 2021

Data You Can Use (Milwaukee)

Data Chats are small, community conversations about data designed to draw out residents’ perspectives and interpretations. They center the knowledge, community understanding, and experiences of... [read more]

The Inequalities Behind COVID-19 Disparities for African Americans in Indianapolis

May 15, 2020

The Polis Center (Indianapolis)

The Polis Center published a story outlining the inequities that black Indy residents face, capitulating in increased positivity rates of COVID-19. In Indianapolis, the COVID-19 positivity rate... [read more]

Four Georgia Cities Tackle Upstream Factors Impacting Health with 500 Cities Data

May 1, 2019

Neighborhood Nexus (Atlanta)

As part of the 500 Cities Data Challenge, Neighborhood Nexus’s Georgia Healthy Cities project from June 2018 to May 2019 created Health and Wellness Toolkits to help break the health services... [read more]

Neighborhood Nexus Wins the RWJ 500 Cities Data Challenge

May 22, 2018

Neighborhood Nexus (Atlanta)

Neighborhood Nexus, the NNIP Partner in Atlanta, is one of ten winners of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 500 Cities Challenge. Neighborhood Nexus is a project of the Atlanta Regional... [read more]

500 Cities Conference, Webinar, and Materials

June 13, 2017

Urban Institute (NNIP Coordinator)

To launch the 500 Cities Project data release, on December 6 and 7, 2016, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funded and organized an evening reception and day-long conference in Dallas, Texas... [read more]

New Guides Help Practitioners Use Data to Advance Health and Opportunity

June 6, 2017 to August 11, 2017

Urban Institute (NNIP Coordinator)

Urban Institute recently released two new guidance documents to to build the capacity of communities to use data to address health and improve fair housing and access to opportunity. Both guides draw... [read more]

Hosting a Local Workshop around New Data for Better Neighborhood Health in Milwaukee

March 31, 2017

Data You Can Use (Milwaukee)

In March 2017, the Milwaukee-based organization Data You Can Use held a convening focused on utilizing local health data with two dozen community organizers, residents, city health department staff,... [read more]

Related Publications:

CTData Collaborative
Hartford - Connecticut

Green Space, Income, and Race/Ethnicity in Connecticut

August 3, 2023

Blog post - By: Celio Cortes

Read more here.

Data You Can Use
Milwaukee
Urban Institute
NNIP Coordinator

Guide to Data Chats: Convening Community Conversations about Data

June 8, 2022

Report - By: Mychal Cohen, Amy Rohan, Kathleen Pritchard, And Kathryn L.S. Pettit