How Do You Find Your Local Community Immunization Rates?

Do you know what the immunization rates are like in your local community?

How Do You Find Your Local Community Immunization Rates?

As measles cases and outbreaks continue to rise, it would be a very good idea to know if you are in an area with low immunization rates.

How high or low are the immunization rates in your community?

Why?

Measles is very contagious.

In fact, unlike most other infectious diseases, you can get sick if you are simply in the same area as someone with measles, even if they had already left up to two hours before you arrived!

And, you can start to be contagious for up to four days before you even have the classic rash and know that you have measles.

“A measles outbreak is like a forest fire throwing out sparks, Moss says. If a spark lands in a state such as Maryland, which has a 97% measles vaccination rate, it will just fizzle out.”
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So as we continue to see more and more outbreaks, it’s not too hard to predict that they might be in and around areas with the lowest immunization rates.

Find the immunization rates in your community to figure out your risk of a measles outbreak. — If you are at high risk to be exposed to someone with measles, be sure that you have had two doses of a measles vaccine, such as the MMR.

That makes it important to make sure you and your family are vaccinated and protected if you don’t want to get caught up in one of these outbreaks.

What are the vaccination rates like in your community (enter your zip code and hit search above)?

If you don’t see any good results, keep trying to search for keywords to find the immunization rates for your local school district.

If they are low, with a lot of non-medical vaccine exemptions, then that raises the risk for a measles outbreak in your area.

Watch for cases of measles, pertussis, and other vaccine preventable diseases and make sure you are up-to-date on your vaccines.

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Last Updated on April 8, 2025

How Do You Find Your Local Community Immunization Rates?