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The birth-worker crisis, county by county.

Every county in the country, colored in. Find your state, click any county, and see where there’s no doctor to deliver babies — and what that means for the women who live there.

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Drawing 3,139 counties…
How to read this

Each shape is one county. The darker the county, the worse it is on whatever you’ve chosen up top. Use the dropdown to jump to your state.

Tap any county to see how risky it is, how many baby doctors it has, and who lives there.

The depth behind the headline

Everyone knows the 3×. Here’s how deep it goes.

The big number hides how bad it gets in some places. These come straight from the county data above.

Where the birth workers aren’t

Counties with no baby doctor, by state (top 12).

The death gap, county by county

Counties grouped by how much more often Black women die than white women.