The interactive map and table below display data for Alabama pharmacies aggregated by Primary Care Service Area (PCSA). There are 79 PCSAs. Each PCSA is based on a centroid: a single general admission hospital in most cases, or a cluster of such hospitals in a few large urban areas, or the center of a small town without a hospital in a few rural cases. The PCSA corresponding to the centroid consists of the region of the state that is closer to that centroid than any other, as measured by drive time through the road network. The centroids are distributed throughout the state so that the PCSAs generally correspond to drive times of 30 minutes or less to the centroids. Like the counties, the PCSAs partition the state. The fields are defined as follows:

• The name of the PCSA.
• The type of the PCSA, either rural or urban.
• The area of the PCSA in square miles.
• The population of the PCSA.
• The number of households in the PCSA.
• The number of communities in the PCSA that have pharmacies.
• The number of pharmacies in the PCSA.
• The ratio of the number of pharmacies per 10,000 population.

For an introduction and user interface information, see the home page.

Map

The base layer shows Alabama's 79 PCSAs. Click on a PCSA to see summary information. The pharmacies are shown as blue dots.

Tables

PCSA Table

In the table below, click on rows to show the selected PCSAs highlighted in the map above. Click on a selected row again to de-select and remove the highlight.

Rural-Urban Table