View racial discrimination and health – findings from SHAPE 2018 (PDF).

Read Hennepin County Public Health’s 2016–2020 community health assessment (PDF)

The community health assessment is a tool to monitor the health of children and adults who live in Hennepin County. It serves as a resource for an ongoing conversation about policies and programs to enhance health in the county. Collection, review, and analysis of health data is an important function of Hennepin County Public Health. Organization of that data into the community health assessment and relevant facts sheets is one way to share health data to inform stakeholders and the public about health issues and concerns in the community.

Adults with one or more chronic diseases or health conditions (2014) (PDF)
50.9% of adults aged 25 and older

Infant mortality – rate of deaths to infants under age one (2017) (PDF)
4.4 deaths per 1,000 births

Adult weight status (2014) (PDF)
22% obese and 36% overweight of adults 25 years and older

Adolescents who are overweight or obese in suburban Hennepin County (2016) (PDF)
21% of suburban Hennepin County 9th graders

HIV infection rate (2017) (PDF)
11 cases per 100,000 population

Chlamydia rate (2017) (PDF)
707 cases per 100,000 population

Gonorrhea rate (2017) (PDF)
263 cases per 100,000 population

Early syphilis rate (2017) (PDF)
13 cases per 100,000 population

Nutrition and physical activity

Adults engaging in no leisure-time physical activity (2014) (PDF)
14% of adults aged 25 and older

Adults drinking one or more sugar-sweetened beverages daily or more often (2014); adolescents drinking one or more sugar-sweetened beverages yesterday (2016) (PDF)
22% of Hennepin County adults aged 25 and older; 71% of suburban Hennepin County 9th graders

Children and adolescents who consumed five or more fruits/vegetables per day (2015) (PDF)
47% of 3-5 year-old children in Hennepin County; 18% of suburban Hennepin County 9th graders

Adults who consumed five or more fruits/vegetables per day (2015) (PDF)
36% of adults in Hennepin County aged 25 and older

Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs

Adolescent past 30-day alcohol use (2016) (PDF)
7% of 9th graders consumed alcohol in the past 30 days

Adults drinking alcohol excessively (2014) (PDF)
29% of adults 25 years and older excessively consuming alcohol

Tobacco use among adolescents in suburban Hennepin County (2019) (PDF)
3% of suburban Hennepin County 9th graders

Adults currently smoking (2014) (PDF)
8% of adults aged 25 and older

Adults exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke at home (2014) (PDF)
5% of adults aged 25 and older 

Adolescent past 30-day drug (marijuana and non-prescribed prescription drugs) use (2016) (PDF)
5.5% of 9th graders past 30-day marijuana use; 3.9% of 9th graders past 30-day non-prescribed prescription drug use

Preventive health care

Adults with dental health insurance and dental care utilization (2014) (PDF)
78% of adults have dental insurance coverage; 79% of adults visited a dentist in the past year.

Children with a dental visit in the past year (2015) (PDF)
85% of children 3 to 17

Children (24-35 months) up to date on immunizations (2017) (PDF)
53% of children 24-35 months completed 4:3:1:3:3:1 series

Access to services

Adults without usual place of care (2014) (PDF)
18.3% of adults 25 and older

Adults with unmet medical care needs (2014) (PDF)
12.1% of adults 25 and older

Adults with unmet mental health care needs (2014) (PDF)
52.8% of adults 25 and older who reported they had a mental health care need (24%) reported not getting the care they need.

Printable PDFs

Pregnant and parenting teens face challenges to achieving healthy outcomes for themselves and their children. The Teen Parent Report Card describes the scope of this issue, and the ways that Hennepin County, Bloomington Public Health, and the Minneapolis Health Department have collaborated to prevent teen pregnancies and provide supportive services for pregnant and parenting teens. View the teen parent report card – 2017 (PDF)

Repeat teen births – Rates of repeat births to mothers 15 to 19 years old, per 1,000 females in the population (PDF)

Pre-term Births – Singleton births at less than 37 weeks of gestation (2014) (PDF)
6.8 percent of all births 

Maternal age – Births to first-time mothers aged 35 or older (2014) (PDF)
12 percent of all births

Foreign-born mothers – Births to mothers who were born outside of the U.S. or U.S. territories (2014) (PDF)
29 percent of all births

Adults with frequent mental distress (2014) (PDF)
8.0% of adults aged 25 and older

Adolescent mental health and treatment in suburban Hennepin County (2016) (PDF)
24% of suburban Hennepin County 11th graders reported signs of depression.

Adolescent suicidality (2016) (PDF)
10% of suburban Hennepin County 9th graders reported seriously considering suicide in the past year.

Adolescents well connected to caring adults (2014) (PDF)
90% of suburban Hennepin County 9th graders

Adults reporting discrimination at least once a month (2014) (PDF)
6.0% of adults aged 25 and older

Neighborhood cohesion (2014) (PDF)
89.9% adults aged 25 and older somewhat or strongly agree that people in their neighborhood are willing to help one another

Supplemental document for manuscript “The effects of smoke-free policy among residents of multi-unit public housing in Minnesota” (PDF)

A Public Health Journal is a weekly cable television program with host Dr. Ed Ehlinger. The program is produced by Minneapolis Office of Media Services, Minnesota Department of Health,and the Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Department. Sponsors include the University of Minnesota Boynton Health Service, Minnesota Public Health Association and the Twin Cities Medical Society, Each week Dr. Ehlinger is joined by a variety of guests to discuss health issues and problems.

The program airs on Wednesday evenings at 8 p.m. on the Metro Cable Network Channel 6.

City and state reports

• Bloomington Public Health reports (PDF)
• Minnesota health data and statistics
• Minnesota Student Survey
• Healthypeople.gov