Study Finds Kentucky Counties Have Wide Variation In Child Well-Being

Child well-being varies widely across Kentucky’s 120 counties according to rankings released by Kentucky Youth Advocates; Oldham County received the highest overall ranking and the lowest ranking was assigned to Elliot County. The child well-being rankings are based on the counties’ scores on 16 well-being indicators in four domains: Economic Security, Education, Health, and Family and Community.

These findings were reported in “The 2014 Kentucky KIDS COUNT County Data Book” by Kentucky Youth Advocates. The report is a state-level counterpart to the 2014 national KIDS COUNT Data Book released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation . . .