Table 4.
Types of sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics by rurality designation with example cities and towns, United States, 2017 (N = 4079)a,b
| Type (No.) of STD Clinics | Metropolitan, No. | Nonmetropolitan, No. | Rural, No. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population >1 000 000 (n = 1219)c | Population 250 000-1 000 000 (n = 859)d | Population <250 000 (n = 494)e | Population >20 000 Adjacent to Metropolitan (n = 271)f | Population >20 000 Nonadjacent to Metropolitan (n = 138)g | Population 2500-19 999 Adjacent to Metropolitan (n = 433)h | Population 2500-19 999 Nonadjacent to Metropolitan (n = 344)i | Population <2500 Adjacent to Metropolitan (n = 144)j | Population <2500 Nonadjacent to Metropolitan (n = 177)k | |
| Local health department (n = 2530) | 569 | 472 | 313 | 185 | 82 | 356 | 262 | 134 | 157 |
| Family planning clinic (n = 696) | 296 | 158 | 86 | 47 | 29 | 37 | 38 | 3 | 2 |
| Community health center (n = 318) | 159 | 76 | 30 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 7 |
| School-based clinic (n = 148) | 40 | 64 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| State health department (n = 138) | 31 | 26 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 1 | 10 |
| Hospital-sponsored clinic (n = 88) | 44 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| AIDS service organization (n = 84) | 54 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University-sponsored clinic (n = 48) | 11 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Jail (juvenile detention) (n = 26) | 15 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Other (n = 3) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
aBased on a 2-phased, multilevel, online search from September 2014 through March 2015 and from May through October 2017. An STD clinic was defined as any publicly funded provider of STD services identified by or as the state health department or local health department. Numbers in columns sum to number in column head, and numbers in rows sum to number in row head.
bData source: US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.25
cExamples: Wilmington, Delaware, and Boston, Massachusetts.
dExamples: Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Gainesville, Florida.
eExamples: Macon, Georgia, and Fargo, North Dakota.
fExamples: Key West, Florida, and Richmond, Indiana.
gExamples: St. Cloud, Minnesota, and Dillon, Montana.
hExamples: Lawrence, Kentucky, and Homerville, Georgia.
iExamples: Trenton, Missouri, and Raton, New Hampshire.
jExamples: Linton, North Dakota, and Standish, Michigan.
kExamples: Quitman, Mississippi, and Medicine Lodge, Kansas.