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:

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

March 1, 2022

Community Information Now (CI:Now)   (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: Supplemental Materials

June 2, 2021

Data You Can Use (Milwaukee)

These materials supplement the text in the Guide to Data Chats: Community Conversations About Data (forthcoming). Data Chat Neighborhood Health and Coronavirus: Amani (slide deck) Data... [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:

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