Agriculture

• NASS data

Economic Conditions

• Economy at a Glance  
• IRS Individual Tax Statistics
• Employment & Wages by occupation & by state
• Bureau of Economic Analysis Gross State Product
• Economagic.com time series data by state

Education

• National Center for Education Statistics State Profiles

Health

• Kaiser Family Foundation 
• Nat. Center for Health Statistics data

Labor

• Dept. of Labor "At a Glance"
• DOL Minimum wage statistics

Laws

• Compare state laws by topic
  Site sponsored by Legal Information Institute (Cornell).
• American Lawsource
  Search state bills, laws, code, constitutions, and other judicial & legislative references.

Safety

• Traffic safety statistics
• Impaired Driving Fact Sheets
• Commercial Motor Vehicle Crashes

Science

• Energy Information Administration
• EPA Global Warming (State impacts)  
• USGS Fact Sheets

Social Services

• Urban Institute
  Compare social statistics by state.  Database use is free but requires online registration. 
• Social Security Administration
• Kids Count
  Wide variety of statistics on children.
• Administration for Children & Families
  Part of the U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services.
  Provides statistics on child abuse, neglect, adoption and foster care.
  

Census 2000 Data Highlights: 
Contains a wealth of the most recent data for every state.  Use drop-down box to make your selection:

Mapstats
Selected demographic, business and geography statistics from the US Bureau of the Census.

Stateline.org
Once at the stateline.org site, click on "States" in the top menu bar. This site does not have statistics as much as it does recent news stories on how all the states are grappling with a variety of problems.

USA Counties 1998
Choose this if you want statistics from the 1970s-1990s. Includes a very wide variety of statistics by state and county.

State government web sites  Sometimes you can find best what you need from a state agency's own website.

LexisNexis Statistical
The interface allows the option to show results "by state."  (Available to MU students, faculty, staff.)

Statistical Abstract of the United States
Not strictly a state-by-state source, but many stats are broken down by state. Published annually. Paper versions dating back to 1878 are available in the library, and most are now on the web as well.

State Statistical Abstracts
Link for each state.