Infant Mortality Data for Franklin County and Columbus

Infant Mortality and Birth Surveillance

Infant mortality – or the death of a baby before his/her first birthday – is a critical indicator of community health. In addition to infant deaths, we track preterm births, low birthweight births, causes of infant deaths, and racial disparities in these indicators.

Infant Mortality Reports

Infant Mortality Report, Franklin County, Ohio

This revised report was released in September 2023. Buttons or tabs can be used to navigate from the home page to view other content: graphs/tables of birth and infant death indicators over time (page 2), a dashboard of current population and programmatic indicators (page 3), ZIP code-level maps of key metrics (page 4), year-to-date progress toward programmatic goals (page 5), and data sources, notes and definitions (page 6). Note that dropdown menus on pages 2 and 5 allow you to choose the content shown on the page.