KIDS COUNT Data Snapshots

The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT® Data Snapshots unpack the latest state and national data on a specific topic related to child well-being. The scope of the series is wide ranging, with individual snapshots exploring statistical trends on everything from teen motherhood and youth incarceration to early reading proficiency and life along Mexico’s northern border. Check out the KIDS COUNT Data Snapshots.

One in Four Kids Miss Annual Preventive Dental Care, up From Previous Years

Learn how missing out on preventive dental care can affect a child's education and overall health.

Adoptions From Foster Care

In 2021, over 113,754 kids were in foster care and awaiting adoption. Get the data details on these children.

Children Living in High-Poverty, Low-Opportunity Neighborhoods

This snapshot shares the latest data — for the nation and each state — on children growing up in high-poverty areas. It also singles out two important factors, geographic location and race and ethnicity, that shape a child’s risk of living in concentrated poverty. Click here to learn more about children living in concentrated poverty.

Kids in Concentrated Poverty Data Snapshot

Find state-level statistics on concentrated poverty and how child poverty rates have changed over time in this KIDS COUNT data snapshot.

Keeping Kids in Families

Trends in U.S. Foster Care Placement

In this data snapshot, the Annie E. Casey Foundation examines how placements for young people in foster care have changed from 2007 to 2017. Using data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Casey finds that child welfare systems are doing a better job of placing kids in families. At the same time, racial disparities persist for kids of all ages and progress eludes teens in care.

Children in Foster Care Increasingly Likely to Live in Families

The Annie E. Casey Foundation today released “Keeping Kids in Families: Trends in U.S. Foster Care Placement,” using data from child welfare systems across all 50 states and the District of Columbia over a 10-year period to look at how placements for young people in foster care have changed.

Measuring Access to Opportunity in the United States

KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot

This KIDS COUNT data snapshot illustrates how outdated methods measuring poverty in the United States are giving an inaccurate picture of how families are really faring and what public programs are actually working. The brief introduces the more accurate Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM).

KIDS COUNT Data Snapshots

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