Data Resources

The KIDS COUNT Data Center is an online resource that provides data on child well-being over time from the most trusted national sources and from more than 53 state- and territory-based organizations: http://datacenter.kidscount.org. State- and territory-based organizations: http://www.aecf.org/work/kids-count/kids-count-network/kids-count-state-organizations

Tennessee KIDS COUNT: The State of the Child in Tennessee is available at this link: https://www.tn.gov/tccy/programs0/kc/kc-pubs-nav.html

The County Health Rankings is an annual report that provides a snapshot of how health is influenced by location. Listed below are topics potentially of interest.

Poor Mental Health Days is a measure of the age adjusted average number of mentally unhealthy days reported in the past 30 days. The 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the source of data for this information. https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/health-data/tennessee?measure=Poor+Mental+Health+Days&tab=0&year=2025

Excessive Drinking is a measure of the percentage of a county’s adult population that reports binge or heavy drinking in the past 30 days. This information is from the 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/health-data/tennessee?measure=Excessive+Drinking*&tab=0&year=2025

Alcohol-impaired driving deaths is a measure of the percentage of driving deaths with alcohol involvement. The source of this data is 2019 – 2023 Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data.

https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/health-data/tennessee?measure=Alcohol-Impaired+Driving+Deaths*&tab=0&year=2025

Adult smoking is a measure of adults having reported that they currently smoke every day or most days, and have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime. 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the source data for this information. https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/health-data/tennessee?measure=Adult+Smoking*&tab=0&year=2025

Frequent mental distress is a measure of the percentage of adults reporting 14 or more days of poor mental health per month. This information is from the 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).  https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/health-data/tennessee?measure=Frequent+Mental+Distress*&tab=0&year=2025

Mental health providers is a measure of the amount of the population served by one provider. This data comes from the 2025 National Provider Identification (NPI) data file.  https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/health-data/tennessee?measure=Mental+Health+Providers&tab=0&year=2025

Uninsured adults is an estimate of persons ages 18 through 64 that have no health insurance coverage. This data comes from the 2022 U.S. Census Bureau’s Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE).  https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/health-data/tennessee?measure=Uninsured+Adults*&tab=0&year=2025

Uninsured children is an estimate of persons under age 19 that have no health insurance coverage. This data comes from the 2022 U.S. Census Bureau’s Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE).  https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/health-data/tennessee?measure=Uninsured+Children*&tab=0&year=2025

TennCare Enrollment Data: TennCare is the state’s Medicaid program and the second largest source of insurance coverage in Tennessee. The program primarily covers low-income children and their caretakers, pregnant women, and individuals with disability. Enrollment data can be downloaded from the state website.  https://www.tn.gov/tenncare/information-statistics/enrollment-data.html

Recovery Courts: Recovery Courts are special courts willing to handle cases involving substance-abusing offenders through comprehensive supervision, drug testing, treatment services, and immediate sanctions and incentives.  https://www.tn.gov/behavioral-health/substance-abuse-services/criminal-justice-services/recovery-drug-court-programs-in-tn.html

Tennessee Traffic Crash Data: County Rankings and Statistics by Emphasis Area (2020 – 2024): This document is updated annually by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security. This document provides the average county rankings for various traffic crash topics for 2020 – 2024, including alcohol impaired fatality rate rank and alcohol crash rate rank. Alcohol impaired crash rates are calculated per 1,000 licensed drivers while alcohol impaired driving fatality rates are calculated per 100,000 licensed drivers. https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/safety/documents/crash_stats/CountyCrashRankings.pdf

The TIBRS Online Reports System, provided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, accesses data on crime in Tennessee, crime on campus, hate crime and law enforcement officers killed or assaulted.
https://crimeinsight.tbi.tn.gov

Tennessee Courts provides Tennessee's Family and Juvenile Court annual reports (https://www.tncourts.gov/courts/juvenile-family-courts/archived-statistics) as well as reports with Tennessee's court statistics (http://www.tncourts.gov/forms-publications/statistics).

The Tennessee Department of Education releases data for the public to use and analyze for research purposes. They also provide information in the form of TN Education Report Cards and the Tennessee Educator Survey.

The School Violence: Data and Statistics, conducted by the CDC in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice, describes school-associated violent deaths, identifies common features of these deaths, estimates the rate of school-associated violent death in the United States, and identifies potential risk factors for these deaths. https://www.cdc.gov/youth-violence/data-research/school-associatedviolentdeathstudy/index.html

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary entity for collecting and analyzing national education data. http://nces.ed.gov

The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health website includes national and state-level data on hundreds of child health indicators from the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (http://childhealthdata.org/learn/NSCH) and the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN) (http://childhealthdata.org/learn/NS-CSHCN).

The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) provides mortality statistics that are based on information from death certificates filed in the 50 states, District of Columbia, and processed by the CDC. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm

The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) provides data on a broad range of health topics collected through personal household interviews. The NHIS questionnaire for children also includes small sets of questions for assessing emotional and behavioral problems in children. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm

The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a surveillance project of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state health departments. PRAMS collects state-specific, population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences before, during, and shortly after pregnancy. http://www.cdc.gov/prams

Trust for America's Health includes data on key health indicators for Tennessee. https://www.tfah.org

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a continuous cross-sectional survey of health and nutritional status conducted by the CDC.  NHANES measures prevalence of seven mental health disorders. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/index.html

The Medicaid Benefits Online Database reflects Medicaid benefits covered in each state, limitations applied to those benefits, cost-sharing charges, and the reimbursement methodologies used for those benefits. https://www.kff.org/statedata/collection/medicaid-benefits/

The Sycamore Institute is an independent, nonpartisan, research group that provides the public with information on complex issues that affect and connect Tennesseans' health and prosperity. County level data on TennCare enrollment, income, education, and insurance coverage are among the topics covered. https://www.sycamoreinstitutetn.org/

The  PLACES: Local Data for Better Health project is a collaboration between the CDC, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the CDC Foundation (CDCF) to provide counties, places, and local health departments regardless of population size and urban-rural status estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive services. https://www.cdc.gov/places/

Housing Within Reach: Recovery Within Reach is a Tennessee resource for people seeking wellness and recovery from issues such as mental illness, substance use disorder, trauma, homelessness, and others. The website began in 2009 as part of a Real Choice Systems Change grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Housing Within Reach, part of the Recovery Within Reach site, is a resource for people seeking housing. The webpage provides listings for various types of housing.  https://recoverywithinreach.org/housing/

Recovery Housing Directory: Safe, stable, quality, affordable housing is an essential component of recovery from substance use disorder. This link shares information about the directory for recovery housing and programs, which include Oxford House, the Tennessee Association of Recovery Residences, the Creative Homes Initiative, and the Addiction Recovery Program.  https://www.tn.gov/behavioral-health/substance-abuse-services/treatment/recovery-housing.html

Prescription for Success is a strategic plan developed by the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in collaboration with other state agencies impacted by the prescription drug epidemic. 

The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is a public health surveillance system that monitors drug-related hospital emergency department visits in order to report on the impact of drug use, misuse, and abuse in metropolitan areas and across the nation. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/data-we-collect/dawn-drug-abuse-warning-network

The State Profile System, part of NRI, Inc.'s State Data Infrastructure Coordinating Center, provides data and reports on the structures and functions of State Mental Health Agencies. https://nri-inc.org/

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) provides public-use data files, file documentation, and access to restricted-use data files to support a better understanding of this critical area of public health. The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. Public-use files created by the SAMHDA project is available to users interested in mental health and substance abuse data on the ICPSR website. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/

SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP) was a searchable online registry of substance abuse and mental health evidence-based interventions that are available for implementation. NREPP stopped updating in January 2018 and is no longer accessible as of August 2018. Although the Results First Clearinghouse Database still contains NREPP's program reviews, links to its website will direct you to a third-party archived version of the NREPP website, where available. https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/data-visualizations/2015/results-first-clearinghouse-datab

Tennessee Recovery Navigators are people in long-term recovery who meet patients who have recently overdosed in the Emergency Department and connect them with the substance abuse treatment and recovery services they need. Navigators maintain a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS) Certification to use their lived experience to help others find recovery. The Navigators are employed by local treatment providers in areas across the state with the greatest prevalence of overdoses. This webpage identifies the local treatment providers and hospitals currently receiving Navigator services, as well as addresses frequently asked questions. https://tn.gov/recoverynavigators

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) contains data on all vehicle crashes in the United States that occur on a public roadway and involve a fatality. http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security update the County Rankings and Statistics by Emphasis Area document annually. This document provides collision counts, rates, and rankings by county for a variety of crash topics such as severity level, driver age, speed involved, and alcohol impairment. https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/safety/documents/CountyCrashRankings2020.pdf

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the nation’s premier system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. adult (ages 18 and older) residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services. https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.html

County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides tools to map health information about Tennessee. http://www.countyhealthrankings.org

The United States Census Bureau Quick Facts offers access to summary profiles showing frequently requested data items from various Census Bureau programs. Profiles are available for the nation, states, counties, and places. http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/00

The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six types of health-risk behaviors, plus obesity and asthma, among youth and young adults at the national, state, territorial, tribal, and local levels. http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/index.htm