University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign

Health Insurance: Children with No Health Insurance, Any Type of Health Insurance, and Public Health Insurance

IECAM reports the number and percent of children with no health insurance, any type of health insurance, and public health insurance. IECAM provides maps, charts, and Excel files for early childhood health insurance data.
These data are presented by Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs). Because PUMA boundaries change every 10 years based on Census results, IECAM has two maps, for years 2015–2021 and years 2022 and later.

For more information about PUMAs, visit IECAM’s About Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) page.

About this data

IECAM reports the number and percent of children (age 5 and under) with:

  • no health insurance
  • any type of health insurance
  • public health insurance
Any type of insurance includes employer/union, direct purchase, TRICARE/other military, and public health insurance (Medicare, Medicaid/other government assistance, Veterans Administration). Not covered: Indian Health Service (IHS).

Individuals can be covered by more than one type of insurance, and they can be covered by both private and public insurers. For more details on this description, visit the IPUMS USA page on health insurance variables.

Data available include:

  • Number and percent of children with no health insurance, by PUMA region
  • Number and percent of children with any type of health insurance, by PUMA region
  • Number and percent of children with public health insurance, by PUMA region
  • Number of all children age 5 and under, by PUMA region
Contact IECAM for earlier maps or spreadsheets, or additional data.