America's Health Rankings

What America's Health Rankings does

America's Health Rankings is a public health data platform operated by the United Health Foundation, a nonprofit foundation within the UnitedHealth Group corporate structure. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Minneapolis, the organization produces the longest-running state-by-state analysis of U.S. population health, currently in its 36th Annual Report edition. The platform aggregates over 250 health, environmental, and socioeconomic measures from more than 50 publicly available federal and state data sources (including the CDC and Census Bureau) and synthesizes them across five categories: Behaviors, Clinical Care, Health Outcomes, Physical Environment, and Social and Economic Factors. Coverage extends to all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, with demographic breakdowns by race, ethnicity, gender, age, education, and income.

The product portfolio spans a flagship Annual Report, population-specific reports (Senior Report, Health of Women and Children Report, Health of Those Who Have Served Report, Maternal and Infant Health Disparities Data Brief), interactive web-based data exploration tools (Health Topics Explorer, State Data Explorer, Adjust My Rank Tool), and a public GraphQL-based API documented at developers.americashealthrankings.org. The API and all platform data are provided free of charge for non-commercial, educational, and scientific use; commercial use of the data is explicitly prohibited.

The platform serves public health policymakers, researchers and academics, journalists, community health leaders, and developers, with documented institutional adoption by entities such as Morehouse School of Medicine's Health Equity Tracker, the Kansas Health Foundation, and the Texas Association of Community Health Centers. The go-to-market model is entirely self-serve and content-driven, with no commercial revenue stream; the initiative is sustained through funding from the United Health Foundation and recognition as a Healthy People 2030 Champion. Senior medical leadership is provided by Dr. Rhonda Randall, who serves as Senior Medical Advisor to America's Health Rankings and Board Member with the United Health Foundation.

Name

America's Health Rankings

Legal name

United Health Foundation

Website

https://americashealthrankings.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

America's Health Rankings, operated by the United Health Foundation, provides the longest-running state-by-state analysis of U.S. population health, aggregating 250+ measures from 50+ sources across annual and population-specific reports, interactive web tools, and a free GraphQL API for policymakers, researchers, journalists, and developers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Data Analytics Platform

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131), Administration of Public Health Programs (92312)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Health Statistics & Reporting (National/State/Local Indicators) (HLAJAJAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Health Quality Measurement & Performance Benchmarking (HLAJAJAL), Data Linkage, Registries & Longitudinal Cohort Surveillance (HLAJANAM), Health Data, Vital Statistics & Population Health Informatics (BPAIAJAM)

Keywords

• Public health data
• Health rankings platform
• Population health analytics
• Health data API
• State health benchmarks

Headquarters

HQ city

Minneapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Public Data Platform (Free Access): America's Health Rankings provides its core platform, reports, and data access completely free of charge to the public. The platform is funded by the United Health Foundation as part of its mission to build healthier communities. The API is free to register and use for non-commercial and educational purposes.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

America's Health Rankings is a nonprofit public health data platform operated by the United Health Foundation that aggregates and analyzes data from over 50 publicly available sources across more than 250 health, environmental, and socioeconomic measures to produce state-by-state health rankings and population-specific reports. The platform offers free public access to its data, a GraphQL-based API for programmatic integration, and interactive web tools (including the Adjust My Rank tool and State Data Explorer) supporting policymakers, researchers, academics, media, and community health leaders.

Product overview

America's Health Rankings is a unified data platform produced by the United Health Foundation that provides actionable, data-driven insights on national health benchmarks and state rankings. The core platform aggregates over 250 measures from more than 50 publicly available data sources. The product portfolio includes flagship annual reports (Annual Report, Senior Report, Health of Women and Children Report), specialty reports (Health of Those Who Have Served Report, Maternal and Infant Health Disparities Data Brief), a Public API for developers, and interactive data exploration tools including the Health Topics Explorer and Adjust My Rank tool. Together these offerings serve public health policymakers, researchers, academics, and media with comprehensive health assessments across key populations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• America's Health Rankings API: Application Programming Interface providing access to public health data across comprehensive health, environmental and socioeconomic measures.

Products and services

• America's Health Rankings Platform A comprehensive data-driven platform providing actionable health insights through state-by-state analysis, featuring over 250 measures from more than 50 publicly available data sources to assess the nation's health and well-being.
• Annual Report The longest-running annual assessment of the nation's health on a state-by-state basis, featuring 99 measures across health outcomes and their drivers, now in its 36th edition.
• Senior Report A comprehensive portrait of the health and well-being of adults age 65 and older in the United States, providing over a decade of longitudinal data for comparison.
• Health of Women and Children Report Assessment of challenges and successes across the health of women and children at national and state levels, focusing on women of reproductive age (18-44) and children.
• Health of Those Who Have Served Report National report exploring the health and well-being of individuals who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
• Maternal and Infant Health Disparities Data Brief Analysis of maternal and infant health disparities by demographic group and at the state level, examining 14 measures including maternal mortality, infant mortality, and low birth weight.
• America's Health Rankings Public API A GraphQL-based API providing programmatic access to public health data across health, environmental, and socioeconomic measures, enabling integration into research projects and applications. Free for non-commercial, educational, and scientific use.
• Health Topics and Measures Explorer Interactive tool for exploring health data by topic, allowing users to view measures grouped by health topic with state comparisons and trend data.
• Adjust My Rank Tool Interactive modeling tool allowing users to explore how changes in key health measures might affect a state's overall health ranking.
• State Data Explorer Platform for viewing state-level health data from different perspectives, enabling comparison of multiple states across health measures.

Quantifiable outcome

• 35+ years of continuous health data collection and analysis
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and moderate.

• Morehouse School of MedicinecoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2020Morehouse School of Medicine's Health Equity Tracker utilizes America's Health Rankings API to access comprehensive health data including chronic disease, mental health, and social determinants of health measures. The partnership enables the tracker to provide policymakers and stakeholders with data to make informed decisions advancing health equity. The API integration was optimized through close collaboration between Morehouse engineers and the AHR team.
• Texas Association of Community Health Centers (TACHC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTACHC partners with United Health Foundation to expand access and improve health outcomes for individuals with chronic conditions, particularly diabetes. The partnership utilizes AHR data to identify health needs across Texas communities and supports the Quality Axis Program that teaches health centers to use data to drive better quality care and advance patient-centered practices.
• Kansas Health FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKansas Health Foundation uses AHR data to track progress in addressing health challenges including food insecurity. The foundation is guided by Kansas's ranking in the AHR platform and has launched initiatives like Hunger Free Kansas, a statewide collaboration addressing food insecurity using the state's agricultural assets.
• Healthy People 2030moderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerUnited Health Foundation is recognized as a Healthy People 2030 Champion. America's Health Rankings data helps advance Healthy People 2030 priorities by providing comprehensive health data aligned with national public health objectives and benchmarks.
• United Health FoundationcoreOthersAmerica's Health Rankings is produced by the United Health Foundation, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to helping build healthier communities. The platform is a demonstration of the United Health Foundation's mission and reflects UnitedHealth Group's commitment to help people live healthier lives.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• HealthData.gov: The US government's open health data portal aggregating datasets from federal agencies. It serves as a broader incumbent platform in public health data distribution, competing for the same researcher and policymaker audience as AHR.
• CDC PLACES / 500 Cities Project: A CDC-led expansion providing model-based health estimates for cities and counties across the US. As a federal government initiative, it is a larger institutional incumbent in the public health data space and partially overlaps with AHR's geographic and measure-level coverage.
• CDC WONDER: CDC's public data query system providing access to a wide range of public health datasets. It is a broader incumbent offering raw data access that researchers and epidemiologists use for similar purposes as the AHR API.

Others

• Healthy People 2030 (HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion): Federal initiative setting 10-year national health objectives with measurable benchmarks. AHR is officially recognized as a Healthy People 2030 Champion and contributes data alignment, making this an institutional counterpart and ecosystem partner.
• Health Affairs: Leading health policy research journal publishing peer-reviewed analysis on health system performance and outcomes. It serves a similar policymaker/researcher audience and complements AHR's data products with deeper policy analysis.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Major health philanthropy that funds County Health Rankings and broader population health research. It is an ecosystem peer and potential partner/funder comparable to United Health Foundation's role in supporting AHR.

Direct peers

• County Health Rankings & Roadmaps: Produced by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funding, County Health Rankings offers county- and state-level health rankings using a similar multi-measure model. It is the closest direct peer to AHR in methodology and audience.
• Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care: Long-running project documenting regional variations in healthcare utilization, quality, and spending across the US. It shares AHR's state/regional benchmarking approach and policy research audience.
• Commonwealth Fund Scorecard on State Health System Performance: The Commonwealth Fund publishes a state-by-state scorecard evaluating health system performance across access, quality, cost, and outcomes. It targets the same policymaker and researcher audience as AHR and uses comparable multi-measure benchmarking.
• KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation): KFF provides nonpartisan health policy analysis, state-level health data dashboards, and original research serving policymakers, journalists, and researchers. It overlaps with AHR's audience and data dissemination model, though with a broader policy focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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