Kids Count annual report shows how children are doing in your community, by many measures

The annual Kids Count report released Monday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation is a treasure trove of information, loaded with data about how children in your community are doing. The report measures how the nation, its 50 states and various localities are doing according to four measures of child well-being – education, health, economic well-being, and family and community.

One of the many data sets available by locality

The report includes a wide range of data for every county and, depending on the state, cities, school districts and other jurisdictions. The data include current and five-year rates of child poverty; median family income and median household income; unemployment; infant mortality rate; child death rate; teen death rate; child abuse and neglect cases; foster care cases; births to mothers who are teenagers, who smoke, who are not high-school graduates, and who get early and regular prenatal care; pre-term births; low-weight births; newborns breastfed when they leave the hospital; early childhood obesity, number and percentage of child-support collections; asthma hospitalizations; recreational facilities; number and percentage of children receiving food stamps, Medicaid, child-care subsidies, Supplemental Security Income, and benefits from the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program; the number and percentage eligible for reduced-price meals at school; the number and percentage in publicly funded preschool; the hourly wage needed to pay fair-market rent and the percentage of renters unable to afford such rent; juvenile justice data; percentage of students ready for college and careers; and the six-year college graduation rate.

There is more, but you should check it out for yourself. And write something about it. Click here to go to the Kids Count data center.