Drexel UHC Data Portal

UHC Data Portal Updates: Jan 2024 

UHC, February 6, 2024

UHC Research and Data Core is working to expand the types of data available from its repository. Reach out to UHCdata@drexel.edu with any specific requests. To ensure the accuracy of all data, the UHC Research and Data Core will update it as soon as possible. 

New Documentation Uploaded 

  • American Community survey Population 2015-2019 documentation updated.  

The American Community Survey (ACS) administered by the US Census Bureau is a survey of randomly selected household across the US. The survey contains information about social, economic, housing, and demographic characteristics. The UHC has extracted population counts by sex, age, and race/ethnicity from the ACS data for the 5-year aggregate period of 2015-2019. 

You will find more information about ACS in this documentation recently uploaded to the UHC Data Portal. 

New Data Available 

The American Community Survey (ACS) administered by the US Census Bureau is a survey of randomly selected household across the US. The survey contains information about social, economic, housing, and demographic characteristics. Three datasets derived from the ACS2017-2021 5-year aggregated data are now available. 

  • American Community Survey Estimates 5-year (2017-2021) by ZCTA 2020 boundaries 
  • The UHC has calculated numerous measures of social, economic, housing, and demographic characteristics. These measures summarized for the Zip Code Tabulation Areas are included in this file. 
  • American Community Survey Estimates 5-year (2017-2021) by Tract 2020 boundaries 
  • The UHC has calculated numerous measures of social, economic, housing, and demographic characteristics. These measures summarized for the Tracts are included in this file.  
  • American Community Survey Population Estimates 5-year (2017-2021) by Tract 2020 boundaries 
  • The UHC has extracted population counts by sex, age, and race/ethnicity from the ACS data. These are included in this file. 

Remember, some of the UHC data has restricted access. Restricted data is not uploaded on the portal and requires signing a Data Use Agreement. 

As an example, The UHC has gentrification from 1990 to 2000 and 2000 to 2010 that can be requested after completing a data use agreement. Click here to access the DUA. More data will be added as it becomes available. 

The Drexel Urban Health Collaborative Research and Data Core

The Core supports work that characterizes health in cities and conducts research on health determinants and the impact of policies. As part of its activities, the Core compiles data on health determinants and outcomes for the Philadelphia region. The Core houses data from over 50 data sources and more than 500,000 records. They are working to transfer some of these data to the portal. To get more information, please contact UHCData@drexel.edu.