City Data

Our city data dashboard is a unique dataset comparing cities across more than 120 living conditions and health factors that shape residents’ lives, from smoking rates, to sexually transmitted diseases, to chronic diseases, to housing status.

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Visit the dashboard to gain unique insights into how cities are faring on a number of health measures.

Data is updated annually in the spring. Be the first to know about updates by subscribing to the platform newsletter.

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This project is part of an innovative partnership with Drexel University’s Urban Health Collaborative.

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Compare cities

See how the nation’s largest cities fare on more than 120 health-related metrics.

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Explore inequities

View some of the most salient health inequities faced by race and ethnicity in U.S. cities.

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Data

Gun deaths in cities – our analysis

Over the past decade, nearly 67,000 gun deaths occurred in BCHC cities.
About 22 gun deaths occur each day. Two-thirds of these deaths were homicides, and nearly a third were suicides.

Learn more about how these data break down by race and ethnicity, city, and age.

Gun deaths in cities – our analysis See the data
Graph showing overdose deaths in big cities rising by 235% from 2010-2021

Data

Drug overdose deaths in cities – our analysis

Lives lost to drug overdoses in big cities increased more than 300% over the last decade, with the impact felt most disproportionately by Black Americans.

In that same timeframe, synthetic opioids went from causing 1 in 10 drug overdose deaths to 9 in 10, largely because of the introduction of fentanyl.

Drug overdose deaths in cities – our analysis See the data

More city health metrics

smoking

Diabetes

syphilis