America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers

More people had health insurance from 2013 to 2017 across the nation, including in every state and almost every county.

The interactive graphic below, that uses Small Area Health Insurance Estimates released today, highlights uninsured rates for 2017 at the county level and the change since 2013. 

It compares the percentage of people without health insurance in rural and nonrural areas and in states that expanded Medicaid and those that didn’t, as of 2017.  

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Uninsured Rates in Urban and Rural America

Discover how the rates of health insurance coverage for people under age 65 change among states and counties, and among counties that are mostly urban (less than 50% of the population lives in rural areas), mostly rural (50% through 99% of the population lives in rural areas) or completely rural (everyone in the county lives in rural areas).

• Did you know? In nearly every county, whether completely rural, mostly rural or urban, the percentage of people without health insurance has declined since 2013.
• Video Tutorial: How to Use This Data Visualization

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