Communities Count is a resource that supports King County communities to understand, use, and interpret data to promote and achieve equity. In addition to providing interpreted data, our team also provides data support and data trainings for community-based organizations in King County on a variety of topics including how to find, interpret, and use population health data. Find out more about our team and history in the About Us page here.

Communities Count uses population data from a variety of national, state and local data sources. To learn more about where specific indicators come from and how the data are collected, select the Notes and Sources tab on any of our dashboards or visit the Data Biographies page here to learn more about our most commonly used data sources.

Visit the Dashboard Tour page to learn how to explore, filter, and download data from Communities Count dashboards. The tour includes a short video and step-by-step instructions that show how to use common dashboards features.

The data visualizations and tools on Communities Count are developed and maintained by the Assessment, Policy Development and Evaluation Unit of the Health Sciences Division at Public Health - Seattle & King County.

An indicator is data that is organized and analyzed to help describe conditions in a community, such as health, housing, or economic well-being. Communities Count indicators are used to understand patterns and differences across places and populations in King County. When possible, indicators allow users to compare geographic areas, look at changes overtime, and explore differences by demographic characteristics such as race and ethnicity, gender and age. Indicator data are presented in interactive dashboards using Tableau. Indicators on the Communities Count website are organized into broad categories called topic areas. Topic areas group related indicators together to make the data easier to explore. Examples of topic areas include Education, Family and Community, Health and Food.

The Communities Count team uses a community informed process to select indicators that will be hosted on the website with interpretation to align with local priorities, needs, and strengths, contribute added value to the local data environment, and help meet community needs for quality data.

You can download underlying data directly from Communities Count dashboards by selecting the Share icon in the lower-right corner of the dashboard and selecting the download option. You can select different formats such as images, power point slides or choose crosstab for a table of the underlying data. If you're unable to find the data you're looking for or have questions about Communities Count data, please contact us at CommunitiesCount@kingcounty.gov. For requests involving customized analyses or additional data not available on Communities Count, you can submit a request through the King County Public Health Data Request service here.

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Communities Count is a resource that supports King County communities to understand, use, and interpret data to promote and achieve equity. In addition to providing interpreted data, our team also provides data support and data trainings for community based organizations in King County on a variety of topics including how to find, interpret, and use population health data. Find out more in the About Us page here. We would love to hear from you at the contact information at the bottom of the website.