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Meigs County Profile
This dashboard provides information for Meigs County, offering a view of the health conditions, community factors, economy, educational background, and environmental health of Meigs County and its residents.
The dropdown menu below can be used to look through all available indicators and choose one of interest. This menu also has a search bar if you are interested in looking for a particular topic. Clicking on one of the indicators below will take you to a Details page for that indicator where you can learn more about how the indicator is defined, see the source of the data, and view changes in the indicator over time. Information about how to interpret the numbers and images within indicators is available in the Legend, accessible by clicking the "See the Legend" button on the left side of the page.
If you are looking for additional information about the Demographic makeup for Meigs County, you can click here: Meigs County Demographics or would like to see multiple indicators at once, please click here: Location Report Builder
For additional data specific to Meigs County, you can view the Ohio Healthy Youth Environments Survey (OHYES!) report by navigating here: Meigs County OHYES! 2022-2023 Report
Indicator Gauge Icon Legend
Legend Colors
Red is bad, green is good, blue is not statistically different/neutral.
Compared to Distribution
the value is in the best half of communities.
the value is in the 2nd worst quarter of communities.
the value is in the worst quarter of communities.
Compared to Target
meets target; 
does not meet target.
Compared to a Single Value
lower than the comparison value;
higher than the comparison value;
not statistically different from comparison value.
Trend
non-significant change over time; 
significant change over time; 
no change over time.
Compared to Prior Value
higher than the previous measurement period;
lower than the previous measurement period;
no statistically different change from previous measurement period.
4th Grade Students Proficient in English/Language Arts
Value
Compared to:
4th Grade Students Proficient in English/Language Arts County: Meigs
4th Grade Students Proficient in English/Language Arts County: Meigs
54.4%
(2023-2024)
Compared to:
OH Counties
The distribution is based on data from 88 Ohio counties.
OH Value
(64.1%)
The regional value is compared to the Ohio State value.
Appalachian Ohio Regional Value
(65.9%)
The regional value is compared to the Appalachian Ohio Region value.
Prior Value
(54.1%)
Prior Value compares a measured value with the previously measured value. Confidence intervals were not taken into account in determining the direction of the comparison.
Trend
This comparison measures the indicator’s values over multiple time periods.<br>The Mann-Kendall Test for Statistical Significance is used to evaluate the trend<br>over 4 to 10 periods of measure, subject to data availability and comparability.
