About NYC Health Data
The Health Department provides interactive visualization tools, downloadable datasets and rigorous research on New Yorkers’ health. You can use these resources to support your own research, and to discover and share data-driven stories about your community’s health.
These data resources can be especially helpful for researchers, public health professionals, community-based organizations and members of the media.
Interactive Tools
Community Health Profiles
Learn about the social, economic and health conditions and outcomes of New Yorkers, neighborhood-by-neighborhood.
Environment and Health Data Portal
Explore over 200 NYC environmental health indicators in charts, maps and scatter plots. You can also find focused data stories and neighborhood reports.
EpiQuery
Analyze and visualize NYC health data from surveys, disease reports and vital records by sex, race/ethnicity, age and other stratifications.
Popular Topics
Chronic Diseases
Chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes are leading causes of disability and death. View trends and demographic details in Community Health Survey data related to chronic diseases.
Syndromic Surveillance Data
Syndromic surveillance data reflect the chief complaint of patients in emergency departments across the city. Track trends in illnesses like respiratory diseases and influenza-like illness across NYC.
Rat Mitigation Zones
In Rat Mitigation Zones, city agencies focus resources to address rats and the conditions that support them. Explore data on 311 complaints, initial inspections, compliance inspections, and exterminator visits.
Data Modernization at NYC Health
Data sound alarms, spur action, and drive planning, programs and policy in health. Effective use of data extends and improves lives. The Health Department is resolved to build on and accelerate our citywide public health data infrastructure.
Our vision is to build a citywide population health data system to guide our efforts to improve health outcomes for New Yorkers. Following the priorities of data modernization, our system will meet users’ needs, advance equity, and drive planning, programming and policy across New York City.
To do this work, the Health Department’s Center for Population Health Data Science is:
- Strengthening existing agency-wide data capabilities in epidemiology, public health surveillance and informatics by enhancing staff skills
- Investing in building data engineering, data science and product management skills
- Modernizing data systems through a unified enterprise infrastructure and practices
- Advancing data analytics techniques
- Fostering strategic collaborations
Recent Research and Reports
Unintentional Drug Poisoning (Overdose) Deaths (PDF)
In 2023, there were 3046 overdose deaths in NYC, similar to the number in 2022. Overdose remains a leading cause of premature death in NYC, and is a central focus of the NYC Health Department’s HealthyNYC strategy to improve life expectancy and create a healthier city for all.
Depression among New York City Adults (PDF)
Community Health Survey data show that in 2022, many of the approximately 845,000 (13%) adult New Yorkers with depression either did not receive any counseling or medication for their mental health condition or were not always able to access the treatment they needed.
The NYC Community Air Survey Report
The NYC Community Air Survey monitors air at 90 sites around the city. Annual average levels of four key pollutants have gone down between the first year of monitoring, 2009, and the most recent year of data, 2022. However, ozone (O3) levels were higher in 2022 than any previous year of monitoring.