Just about everything related to the U.S. employee benefits market is intensely local, and that's true even of the most basic benefits market fact: The percentage of the people in a metropolitan area who have employer health plan coverage.
The U.S. Census Bureau tells the story in the new Private Health Insurance Coverage by Type and Selected Characteristics, which is part of a new batch of "5-year estimates" data.
The bureau gathered the data for the new tables over a 5-year period starting in 2019 and ending in 2023. It's not as up-to-date as the 1-year 2023 data, but it includes such a huge sample that you can use it to look up your ZIP code. If you have enough neighbors to meet the Census Bureau's privacy standards, you can use the 5-year data to look up information for your block.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
