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Every year, HealthierHere’s Landscape Assessment brings together data, lived experience, and partner insight to help answer a critical question: What is happening in King County, and how can we respond, together?
The 2025 Landscape Assessment offers a timely snapshot of community well-being, needs, and priorities across King County. As an interim update between full assessments, it reflects how rapidly shifting state and federal policy environments are shaping the health and health-related social needs of communities today, helping to inform action.
What is the Landscape Assessment?
HealthierHere’s Landscape Assessment synthesizes multiple data sources—including sociodemographic indicators, Community Hub insights, and partner perspectives—to provide a shared foundation for understanding community conditions in King County.
The 2025 assessment includes:
- Updated sociodemographic data on population, race and ethnicity, immigration, language, income, employment, housing and homelessness, and health insurance coverage for King County residents
- Insights from HealthierHere’s Community Hub, which supported more than 5,000 clients in 2025, many with multiple overlapping health and social needs
- Qualitative findings from a cross-sector partner focus group, capturing emerging challenges and priorities amid major federal and state policy changes
Together, these elements offer both context and clarity at a moment when community-based organizations and service providers are navigating increased demand, constrained resources, and uncertainty.
Why the 2025 Landscape Assessment Matters Now
The 2025 Landscape Assessment was developed during a period of significant transition. Changes in federal leadership and priorities, reductions in Medicaid and SNAP funding, increased immigration enforcement activity, and a prolonged federal government shutdown have all had real, downstream impacts on community health and stability. At the state level, Washington’s budget deficit has further strained systems and services.
Against this backdrop, the assessment helps surface how these shifts are being experienced on the ground, by individuals, families, and the organizations that serve them. Partner focus group participants described a growing emphasis on preserving existing services, rising housing-related needs, and increasing service disruptions, while also naming opportunities for stronger coordination and collaboration across sectors.
Grounding Data In Equity and Lived Experience
HealthierHere believes that all people deserve to see themselves represented in data collected about them and for them. The assessment acknowledges the limitations of existing data systems, including how race and ethnicity are categorized, and the ways those limitations can obscure inequities or underrepresent certain communities.
For this reason, quantitative data is intentionally paired with qualitative input and “ground-truthed” through ongoing relationships with partners and community members. This approach helps ensure the assessment is not just descriptive, but reflective of lived realities and local expertise.
How Organizations Can Use the Landscape Assessment
The Landscape Assessment is designed to be a shared resource. HealthierHere uses it to guide organizational strategy, engagement efforts, and program priorities—but partners are encouraged to use it in ways that support their own work, including:
- Strategic planning: Ground proposals, initiatives, and priorities in current, local data
- Advocacy and storytelling: Use data and themes to illustrate community needs and policy impacts
- Cross-sector collaboration: Align efforts with others responding to similar challenges and reduce duplication
- Program design: Better understand evolving needs related to housing, food access, financial stability, and health coverage.
By offering a common reference point, the assessment supports more coordinated, informed, and equitable action across King County.
Shaping What’s Next for Community Health in King County
The 2025 Landscape Assessment is not intended to be a static report—it is a tool for dialogue, alignment, and action. As needs continue to evolve, HealthierHere remains committed to working alongside partners and communities to interpret and leverage these findings to inform action aligned with priorities outlined int he report.
Download HealthierHere's 2025 Landscape Assessment to explore the data, insights, and themes in more detail and consider how they can support your work.