Health Data
Community health reports and data are essential to our Coalition’s ability to identify local health priorities and build a shared understanding of key health issues. Please get in touch with our CHI leads if you have community health data, information, and reports to share.
All Data Reports are below, to see a list of links to county health profiles, rankings, maps, and more, click “County Profiles”
State of Childcare In Okanogan County
Coming into 2024, just 14% of the Childcare Need in Okanogan County for kids 0 - 12 is being met. Thousands of slots are needed to meet the real and growing need for affordable and reliable childcare in Okanogan County. Click below to find live data and dashboards on the state of childcare and early learning.
Okanogan Housing Needs Study
Guided by leaders across Okanogan County, the 2020 Housing Needs Study is a critical tool in countywide housing work. The Study illuminates challenges to finding safe, affordable, and accessible housing and provides recommendations for five specific subregions of Okanogan County.
Okanogan Broadband Study, 2020
In rural communities, many workers, school-aged children, families, and individuals struggle to find reliable internet access. In 2020, Okanogan County and the Colville Confederated Tribes developed a plan to increase broadband internet across the County, and identified which communities need it most.
Washington Healthy Youth Survey
The Healthy Youth Survey (HYS) shares a snapshot of young people’s health across Washington State. Findings can guide community health prevention, response, and safety work across the county and within individual schools.
Okanogan Economic Report, March 2022
Poverty and unemployment are deeply tied to individual and community health. In April of 2020, the onslaught of COVID-19-related layoffs drove Okanogan County’s unemployment rate upwards to 15.0 percent, but in April 2021 the rate slowed to 7.7 percent. Okanogan County’s nonfarm economy lost 670 jobs in 2020, but the labor market began expanding in January 2021.
Suicide in Okanogan County
Suicide affects rural families, neighbors, and communities across Okanogan County. Suicide rates are highest among 25-44 year-olds, followed by 45-64 year-olds in Okanogan County. In general, Okanogan County’s suicide rates are higher than Washington State’s.
NCW Childcare Report
For many years, Okanogan County has faced an exceptional childcare and early learning shortage. The April, 2021 Report on the State of Care: Early Learning and Care in the North Central Washington Region provides data and research on the economic benefits of of investing in early learning and care; the challenges within the early learning workforce; and local information on access, affordability, and quality of care.