{
  "alt": "County map of the United States shaded in steps by residents per mental health provider. Counties in the highest steps lie mostly in the South and the Midwest and are mostly rural, and the most populous counties lie in the lower steps. Gray counties have no mental health provider recorded.",
  "caption": "Counties toward the high end of the key have few providers for their residents, and {fact:map_n_gray} gray counties have none recorded, so their ratio is undefined and they are the thinnest supply of all. The map plots each county's residents divided by its mental health providers; hover for the counts.",
  "data": [],
  "id": "mental_health_provider_map",
  "notes": [
    "Gray counties have no mental health provider recorded in 2023; County Health Rankings leaves the ratio blank for them. They are not missing data, and their tooltip says so. Puerto Rico is not drawn. Alaska is drawn, and Connecticut appears under its eight legacy counties.",
    "Providers are counted where they practice and each county's residents are the denominator, so a county next to a large city can look thin while its residents are served across the county line."
  ],
  "source": "County Health Rankings 2024 (CMS National Provider Identifier file, 2023); full counts, county ratios",
  "spec": {
    "fips": "fips",
    "legendLabel": "Residents per mental health provider, 2023",
    "payload": "mental_health_provider_map.json",
    "scale": {
      "ends": [
        "Fewer residents per provider",
        "More residents per provider"
      ],
      "palette": "seq",
      "thresholds": [
        200,
        400,
        800,
        1600,
        3200,
        6400
      ],
      "type": "threshold"
    },
    "tooltipKeys": [
      "providers",
      "residents"
    ],
    "tooltipLabels": {
      "providers": "Mental health providers",
      "residents": "Residents"
    },
    "value": "ratio",
    "valueFormat": {
      "digits": 0,
      "thousands": true
    }
  },
  "subtitle": "Residents per mental health provider by county, providers counted in 2023, on a scale that doubles at each step",
  "title": "Residents per mental health provider exceed {fact:map_hi_thr} in {fact:map_hi_n} counties, and {fact:map_hi_rural} of those counties have a mostly rural population",
  "type": "county-map",
  "width": "full"
}