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

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.

Vaccines for Children (VFC) was established in 1993 to remove the barriers of cost and access to attaining childhood immunizations. The program is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the State of Washington, and supplies vaccines to providers across the state.

Most public and private health care providers who immunize children in King County are currently enrolled. All children from birth up to the 19th birthday are eligible to receive these vaccines.

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).

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.

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

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.

This view groups the individual businesses by name, address, city, zip, and spatial coordinates to provide unique list of food establishments.

Behavioral Health Needs and Services in King County

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