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County health in Washington

Washington had 39 counties in CDC’s model-based county estimates for 2023, according to CDC’s PLACES.

Washington’s counties on each measure

Age-adjusted, as counties are compared, with each end’s 95% interval. The median is one of the published values: at least half the counties are at or below it. Each measure with two or more counties with an estimate links to Washington’s counties ranked on it.

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Each PLACES measure across Washington’s counties: the median, highest and lowest age-adjusted estimate
MeasureMedian countyHighest
Any disability among adults29.3%Adams 36.5% (32.1% to 41.0%)
Cognitive disability among adults15.8%Adams 20.1% (17.6% to 23.0%)
Hearing disability among adults6.5%Adams 8.0% (7.1% to 9.0%)
Independent living disability among adults7.7%Adams 10.8% (9.4% to 12.4%)
Mobility disability among adults11.2%Adams 16.3% (14.0% to 18.6%)
Self-care disability among adults3.3%Adams 5.7% (5.0% to 6.6%)
Vision disability among adults4.4%Adams 8.8% (7.7% to 10.0%)
All teeth lost among adults aged ≥65 years11.6%Okanogan 18.0% (15.4% to 21.6%)
Arthritis among adults23.8%Cowlitz 27.8% (25.4% to 30.2%)
Cancer (non-skin) or melanoma among adults7.3%Jefferson 7.7% (6.9% to 8.4%), Kitsap 7.7% (7.0% to 8.5%), Lincoln 7.7% (6.9% to 8.5%), Whitman 7.7% (6.9% to 8.5%)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among adults5.4%Ferry 6.9% (6.0% to 8.1%)
Coronary heart disease among adults5.3%Adams 6.6% (5.8% to 7.4%)
Current asthma among adults11.3%Ferry 12.7% (11.3% to 14.2%)
Depression among adults26.8%Whatcom 30.1% (26.9% to 33.3%)
Diagnosed diabetes among adults9.1%Adams 13.1% (11.4% to 14.9%)
High blood pressure among adults29.0%Grays Harbor 32.4% (29.2% to 35.6%)
High cholesterol among adults who have ever been screened30.3%Benton 32.5% (29.8% to 35.4%)
Obesity among adults35.0%Cowlitz 40.3% (35.8% to 45.0%)
Stroke among adults2.9%Adams 3.7% (3.3% to 4.2%)
Fair or poor self-rated health status among adults17.4%Adams 27.9% (24.1% to 31.9%)
Frequent mental distress among adults18.3%Ferry 20.8% (18.3% to 23.3%)
Frequent physical distress among adults13.3%Adams 16.8% (14.7% to 18.9%)
Cholesterol screening among adults80.7%King 85.4% (83.6% to 87.1%)
Colorectal cancer screening among adults aged 45–75 years59.3%Thurston 64.7% (61.1% to 68.2%)
Current lack of health insurance among adults aged 18-64 years8.7%Adams 24.2% (19.3% to 29.8%)
Mammography use among women aged 50-74 years71.3%Skagit 76.4% (70.3% to 81.8%), Spokane 76.4% (71.4% to 80.8%)
Taking medicine to control high blood pressure among adults with high blood pressure51.4%Whitman 55.4% (51.2% to 59.1%)
Visited dentist or dental clinic in the past year among adults62.1%King 71.9% (70.1% to 73.7%)
Visits to doctor for routine checkup within the past year among adults67.9%Asotin 71.3% (67.6% to 74.9%)
Binge drinking among adults18.3%Lincoln 20.5% (17.2% to 24.2%)
Current cigarette smoking among adults12.2%Ferry 16.7% (14.0% to 19.8%)
No leisure-time physical activity among adults19.0%Adams 30.1% (25.6% to 34.6%)
Short sleep duration among adults32.3%Grays Harbor 40.2% (35.3% to 45.4%)

Measures CDC did not publish for Washington

CDC served no estimate of these for any of Washington’s counties in this release. Why is on the methodology page.

  • Food insecurity in the past 12 months among adults
  • Housing insecurity in the past 12 months among adults
  • Lack of reliable transportation in the past 12 months among adults
  • Lack of social and emotional support among adults
  • Loneliness among adults
  • Received food stamps in the past 12 months among adults
  • Utility services shut-off threat in the past 12 months among adults

Every county in Washington

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Every county CDC served in Washington, with how many measures it has a published estimate for
CountyMeasures published
Adams33 of 40
Asotin33 of 40
Benton33 of 40
Chelan33 of 40
Clallam33 of 40
Clark33 of 40
Columbia33 of 40
Cowlitz33 of 40
Douglas33 of 40
Ferry33 of 40
Franklin33 of 40
Garfield33 of 40
Grant33 of 40
Grays Harbor33 of 40
Island33 of 40
Jefferson33 of 40
King33 of 40
Kitsap33 of 40
Kittitas33 of 40
Klickitat33 of 40
Lewis33 of 40
Lincoln33 of 40
Mason33 of 40
Okanogan33 of 40
Pacific33 of 40
Pend Oreille33 of 40
Pierce33 of 40
San Juan33 of 40
Skagit33 of 40
Skamania33 of 40
Snohomish33 of 40
Spokane33 of 40
Stevens33 of 40
Thurston33 of 40
Wahkiakum33 of 40
Walla Walla33 of 40
Whatcom33 of 40
Whitman33 of 40
Yakima33 of 40

Washington elsewhere on the Factbook

  • Reported crime Crime and justice

    Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

  • Cities by violent crime rate in Washington Crime and justice

    What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

  • Prison population Crime and justice

    People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

  • Arrests by race, sex and age Crime and justice

    Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

  • Hate crime Crime and justice

    Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

  • Federal obligations Federal spending

    What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

  • Registered nonprofits Nonprofits

    How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.

  • Payments to doctors Health

    What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

  • Immigration courts Immigration and the border

    The EOIR courts sitting in the state, what they completed and still have pending, and how far apart their asylum grant rates are. The courts, not the state’s residents: a detention court hears cases from far outside it.

  • Farm program payments Farm subsidies

    What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

  • Paycheck Protection Program loans PPP loans

    The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

  • Population, age, income and origin Demographics

    The Census Bureau's population estimates year by year, with births, deaths and migration, and age, income, poverty, housing and origin from the American Community Survey, each with its margin of error.

  • Public schools Schools

    Pupils, schools and teachers, the largest districts, what districts spend per pupil and where the money comes from, and the colleges that take federal student aid.

  • Banks and credit unions Banks and credit unions

    The FDIC-insured banks headquartered in the state and their offices, and the credit unions based there and their sites, each per resident and against every other state.

  • Housing Housing

    The homes under HUD’s rental assistance programs in the state, by program and county, and its tax-credit housing, each per resident and against every other state.

  • Mortgage lending Mortgage lending

    The mortgage applications, loans and denials lenders reported in the state under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, and its largest lenders and counties.

  • Cost of living Cost of living

    BEA’s price level for the state against the nation, for goods, rents, utilities and other services, and its metro areas beside it.

  • College athletics Sports

    Every college in the state that reported to the Equity in Athletics survey, ranked by its athletics revenue, with its expenses, athletes and athletic aid.

  • Federal civilian workforce Federal salaries

    Federal civilian employees stationed in the state by agency and occupation, with the pay OPM publishes and the share it withholds.

  • The Washington Factbook entry Across the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration link above is EOIR’s courts, which sit in this state. CBP’s encounters are not by state and will not be: its sectors and field offices are areas of responsibility rather than a geography, and assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.

Sources

Compiled automatically from PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, County Data, 2025 release by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

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