These Best Starts for Kids (BSK) indicators provide important information about the health and well-being of King County children, youth, families, and communities.

Information is organized into four areas:

Prenatal to 5 years: Babies are born healthy and are provided with a strong foundation for lifelong health and well-being.

5 to 24 years: King County is a place where everyone has equitable opportunities to be safe and healthy as they progress through childhood, building academic and life skills to be thriving members of their communities.

Youth and family homelessness prevention

Communities of Opportunity

Racial/ethnic health disparities are higher rates of serious health conditions or deaths that affect communities of color. These disparities can result in shorter lifespans and lower quality of life, are rooted in inequities in the opportunities and resources needed for good health, such as education, employment, safe and healthy neighborhoods, and access to health care. These inequities are often the result of current and historical institutionalized racism or explicit racial bias.

The Washington State Department of Health presents this information as a service to the public. This includes information on the work status, practice characteristics, education, and demographics of healthcare providers, provided in response to the Washington Health Workforce Survey.

This is a complete set of data across all of the responding professions. The data dictionary identifies questions that are specific to an individual profession and aren't common to all surveys. The dataset is provided without identifying information for the responding providers.

More information on the Washington Health Workforce Survey can be found at www.doh.wa.gov/workforcesurvey

This dataset has been federated from https://data.wa.gov/Health/Washington-Health-Workforce-Survey-Data/cvrw-ujje.

The locations on this map provide COVID-19 testing for anyone who is experiencing COVID-19 symptoms or has been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19. Many of the locations are free and do not require insurance.

For more information please call the King County COVID-19 Call Center (open 7 days a week, 8 AM – 7 PM), at 206-477-3977. You can ask for an interpreter by saying the language you need.

Testing sites may change and new ones may open. This list is not a complete list of all testing locations. It may not include the most up-to-date locations or contact information.

Health Department inspection results for food service establishments in King County, 2006 to the present. This data is organized by Business / Inspection Date / Violation. Each row in this dataset is an inspection, and if an inspection at a particular buiness results in multiple violations there will be multiple rows for that business with the same Inspection_Serial_Num. This dataset was last updated on 02/21/2021 and is current from 1/1/2006 to 02/18/2021.

An inventory of archived data resources produced to assist HealthierHere develop Medicaid Transformation projects. Newly developed data resources are now posted to HealthierHere’s data website (https://www.healthierhere.org/our-impact/)

For questions or more information, please contact Eli Kern, Public Health Epidemiologist at eli.kern@kingcounty.gov.

What began in 1989 as a modest pilot program at Rainier Beach High School is now a model for an effective school-based health care system, serving over 10,000 elementary, middle and high school students each year across King County (and part of a larger Washington State network).

Updated daily, Monday - Friday
This dashboard provides a snapshot of several useful indicators, or measures, related to COVID-19 activity in our community and its impact on our health and our hospitals. These indicators, along with many other data, are key considerations for reviewing current restrictions on activity, recommendations and precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The indicators help determine if current actions are adequate, need to be strengthened, or might be carefully relaxed.

Health profile of King County Housing Authority and Seattle Housing Authority residents

Link to Covid-19 Vulnerable Communities Data Tool (see dashboard for additional metadata)