Public Health & Risk

Mississippi County Primary-Care Access & Health-Burden Scorecard

Name: Mississippi County Primary-Care Access & Health-Burden Scorecard
Creator: KYFEX

A county-level targeting index for Mississippi, fusing adult chronic-disease and social-risk prevalence (CDC PLACES) with federally designated primary-care provider shortages (HRSA). Ranks all 82 counties by combined need so a health department or rural-health office can see where high burden and thin provider supply overlap.

KYFEX·May 31, 2026

Key findings

1
81 of Mississippi's 82 counties (99%) fall within a federally designated primary-care Health Professional Shortage Area.
2
Adult diagnosed-diabetes prevalence ranges from 10.9% in Oktibbeha County to 25.2% in Sharkey County, a 14.3-point spread within a single state.
3
Humphreys County carries the highest combined targeting-priority index (89.5/100), led by its health burden score.
4
The median county uninsured rate (adults 18-64) is 12.6%, and the median adult diabetes prevalence is 17.1%.

How it is built

Two CDC PLACES axes are built from crude adult prevalence: a Health-Burden axis (diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, fair/poor self-rated health, frequent physical distress) and an Access & SDOH axis (uninsured 18-64, lack of reliable transportation, food insecurity, housing insecurity). Each measure is min-max normalized across the state's counties to 0-100, then averaged within its axis. A Provider-Shortage axis scales each county's worst designated primary-care HPSA score against the HRSA 0-26 severity scale. The combined Targeting-Priority Index is the equal-weighted mean of the three axes. Scores are relative WITHIN Mississippi: a 100 marks the worst county in the state on that axis, not a national benchmark.

Health-burden axis

Diagnosed diabetesObesityHigh blood pressureCoronary heart diseaseFair or poor self-rated healthFrequent physical distress

Access & SDOH axis

Uninsured (adults 18-64)Lack of reliable transportationFood insecurityHousing insecurity

All 82 counties, ranked by targeting priority

Higher scores mean greater relative need within Mississippi. Scroll horizontally for all columns.

#	County	Priority	Burden	Access	Shortage	Diabetes	Uninsured	Top driver
1	Humphreys	89.5	97.3	86.5	84.6	24.7%	16.0%	Health burden
2	Holmes	89.3	83.9	87.9	96.2	23.3%	15.6%	Provider shortage
3	Sharkey	86.0	96.8	76.6	84.6	25.2%	15.2%	Health burden
4	Tunica	85.3	77.3	90.2	88.5	21.4%	16.1%	Access & SDOH barriers
5	Quitman	84.7	85.2	80.3	88.5	22.8%	15.4%	Provider shortage
6	Jefferson	84.0	86.6	76.9	88.5	23.6%	15.0%	Provider shortage
7	Coahoma	81.1	73.7	77.4	92.3	21.8%	15.1%	Provider shortage
8	Claiborne	79.2	66.0	75.4	96.2	20.4%	13.9%	Provider shortage
9	Washington	76.9	69.6	68.9	92.3	21.0%	14.4%	Provider shortage
10	Leflore	76.0	65.1	74.3	88.5	20.9%	14.6%	Provider shortage
11	Yazoo	75.6	67.5	78.5	80.8	18.5%	18.6%	Provider shortage
12	Noxubee	75.5	72.1	69.9	84.6	21.2%	15.2%	Provider shortage
13	Bolivar	75.0	67.8	61.0	96.2	20.5%	13.7%	Provider shortage
14	Issaquena	74.4	53.4	85.3	84.6	16.4%	21.3%	Access & SDOH barriers
15	Sunflower	72.4	64.9	75.5	76.9	19.3%	16.2%	Provider shortage
16	Tallahatchie	70.5	61.6	61.5	88.5	18.9%	15.8%	Provider shortage
17	Jefferson Davis	68.6	74.5	50.6	80.8	21.8%	12.9%	Provider shortage
18	Amite	68.3	72.8	35.9	96.2	20.6%	12.6%	Provider shortage
19	Wilkinson	66.7	69.5	61.5	69.2	20.6%	14.3%	Health burden
20	Pike	66.2	61.2	52.8	84.6	18.9%	13.5%	Provider shortage
21	Marshall	64.8	57.1	48.9	88.5	18.5%	14.2%	Provider shortage
22	Adams	64.6	64.5	56.2	73.1	20.6%	15.2%	Provider shortage
23	Scott	63.3	57.3	55.8	76.9	18.3%	16.5%	Provider shortage
24	Clay	63.1	63.2	49.2	76.9	19.1%	13.1%	Provider shortage
25	Panola	63.1	60.4	48.2	80.8	18.4%	13.2%	Provider shortage
26	Yalobusha	62.2	60.1	41.9	84.6	19.0%	13.2%	Provider shortage
27	Leake	62.0	51.4	42.4	92.3	17.0%	13.6%	Provider shortage
28	Winston	61.6	60.6	43.3	80.8	19.5%	13.1%	Provider shortage
29	Wayne	61.5	57.2	42.8	84.6	17.8%	13.2%	Provider shortage
30	Lawrence	61.0	66.9	43.0	73.1	18.8%	13.6%	Provider shortage
31	Kemper	60.2	55.8	43.9	80.8	18.4%	12.7%	Provider shortage
32	Lauderdale	60.0	47.7	36.1	96.2	16.7%	12.0%	Provider shortage
33	Franklin	59.3	58.4	34.9	84.6	18.5%	12.1%	Provider shortage
34	Walthall	58.9	57.1	38.7	80.8	17.8%	13.0%	Provider shortage
35	Copiah	58.7	51.8	39.8	84.6	18.2%	12.3%	Provider shortage
36	Clarke	58.6	52.9	30.6	92.3	17.8%	11.7%	Provider shortage
37	Montgomery	58.5	65.6	40.7	69.2	19.6%	12.8%	Provider shortage
38	Calhoun	58.3	58.9	39.1	76.9	18.2%	14.0%	Provider shortage
39	Neshoba	58.2	50.4	39.5	84.6	16.5%	12.8%	Provider shortage
40	Chickasaw	57.9	57.5	47.1	69.2	18.4%	14.0%	Provider shortage
41	Carroll	57.7	59.6	32.7	80.8	18.6%	13.0%	Provider shortage
42	Hinds	57.7	42.4	42.3	88.5	17.0%	11.1%	Provider shortage
43	Grenada	57.5	54.6	37.1	80.8	17.6%	12.3%	Provider shortage
44	Benton	55.5	52.9	32.9	80.8	17.4%	12.7%	Provider shortage
45	Smith	55.3	55.6	29.4	80.8	16.9%	12.5%	Provider shortage
46	Marion	55.2	54.8	37.6	73.1	17.2%	12.8%	Provider shortage
47	Jones	54.1	42.9	27.1	92.3	16.0%	11.9%	Provider shortage
48	Monroe	54.0	51.0	26.4	84.6	16.7%	11.7%	Provider shortage
49	Attala	53.8	50.1	34.5	76.9	16.9%	12.2%	Provider shortage
50	Jasper	52.1	59.5	39.1	57.7	19.0%	12.4%	Health burden
51	Newton	51.4	41.8	31.6	80.8	15.7%	11.7%	Provider shortage
52	Choctaw	50.4	46.8	19.9	84.6	16.9%	11.4%	Provider shortage
53	Simpson	49.0	42.6	27.6	76.9	16.2%	11.9%	Provider shortage
54	Covington	48.7	40.6	28.5	76.9	15.6%	11.6%	Provider shortage
55	Lincoln	48.1	39.7	23.9	80.8	15.7%	11.1%	Provider shortage
56	Warren	47.6	40.5	25.3	76.9	16.2%	10.5%	Provider shortage
57	Perry	46.2	49.3	23.8	65.4	16.2%	11.7%	Provider shortage
58	Lowndes	46.2	31.8	26.1	80.8	15.5%	11.0%	Provider shortage
59	Tippah	45.9	43.2	25.3	69.2	15.3%	12.4%	Provider shortage
60	Alcorn	45.7	41.4	18.8	76.9	15.0%	11.8%	Provider shortage
61	Forrest	43.5	18.5	27.5	84.6	13.1%	10.8%	Provider shortage
62	Tishomingo	42.7	44.1	14.8	69.2	15.0%	11.6%	Provider shortage
63	Harrison	42.3	27.0	19.2	80.8	14.1%	11.1%	Provider shortage
64	Prentiss	41.3	33.5	17.4	73.1	13.9%	11.0%	Provider shortage
65	Itawamba	40.2	20.8	7.4	92.3	12.2%	10.4%	Provider shortage
66	Union	39.9	37.9	24.0	57.7	14.1%	12.8%	Provider shortage
67	Greene	39.8	35.6	30.0	53.8	14.0%	13.4%	Provider shortage
68	Pearl River	39.5	34.4	14.8	69.2	14.4%	11.2%	Provider shortage
69	Pontotoc	39.3	30.9	21.6	65.4	13.8%	12.4%	Provider shortage
70	Webster	38.8	27.6	11.9	76.9	13.7%	10.7%	Provider shortage
71	Stone	38.1	32.9	15.9	65.4	14.0%	10.8%	Provider shortage
72	Tate	36.6	26.8	21.4	61.5	14.2%	11.1%	Provider shortage
73	Jackson	35.9	31.3	14.9	61.5	15.0%	11.1%	Provider shortage
74	Lee	35.6	23.6	14.1	69.2	13.9%	10.2%	Provider shortage
75	Madison	35.6	8.9	1.6	96.2	12.4%	8.1%	Provider shortage
76	Hancock	34.7	31.1	3.8	69.2	14.3%	9.7%	Provider shortage
77	Lamar	34.4	18.2	8.0	76.9	12.4%	9.5%	Provider shortage
78	Rankin	33.0	12.5	1.8	84.6	12.1%	8.9%	Provider shortage
79	George	32.8	25.7	15.0	57.7	13.1%	11.3%	Provider shortage
80	Oktibbeha	32.7	2.8	22.1	73.1	10.9%	10.1%	Provider shortage
81	Lafayette	23.0	2.0	9.2	57.7	10.9%	9.2%	Provider shortage
82	DeSoto	8.1	12.9	11.5	0.0	12.4%	9.7%	Health burden

Limitations

Scores are intra-state relative, not absolute or cross-state comparable.
PLACES values are small-area model-based estimates with confidence intervals, not direct counts.
HPSA aggregation takes the worst designated primary-care score per county; geographic, population-group, and facility designations are pooled.
Equal axis weighting is a transparent default, not a calibrated policy model.
Socioeconomic depth (Census ACS poverty, age, rurality) is a planned layer, deferred here because the Census API requires a key.
This is informational analysis of public data, not clinical, individual, or actuarial advice.

Sources

CDC PLACES — Local Data for Better Health (County Data)
CDC PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, County Data, 2025 release (measure year 2023) · accessed 2026-05-31
HRSA — Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas
Shortage Area HPSA detail (Primary Care discipline, designated) · accessed 2026-05-31

Frequently asked questions

What does the Mississippi county health-access scorecard measure?

It ranks all 82 Mississippi counties by a combined Targeting-Priority Index that fuses adult chronic-disease and social-risk prevalence from CDC PLACES with federally designated primary-care provider shortages from HRSA, highlighting where health need and thin provider supply overlap.

Which public datasets is it built from?

CDC PLACES county estimates (CDC PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, County Data, 2025 release (measure year 2023)) and the HRSA Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Area detail file, both fully open federal sources accessed 2026-05-31.

How should the Targeting-Priority Index be used?

As a transparent first-pass screen for where to focus outreach, workforce, or program resources. Scores are relative within the state and equal-weighted by default; a real engagement would calibrate weights to a program's goals and add socioeconomic and utilization layers.