Objective To analyze the status of public health service of 30 community health centers (CHS) held by different sponsors in Wuhan. Methods Using Rank-sum ratio and Data Envelopment Analysis to compare different types of CHSs from aspects of launching rate and efficiency of public health service. Results The WRSR of community health centers held by government, society and hospital are 0.525, 0.481 and0.539 respectively. There are no significant gaps between different types of community health centers at the aspect of launching rate; The three kinds of CHS focus on different public health items, and the launching rate of residents health files is higher than system administration rates of child under age 6 and old people above 60 years old; The supplying efficiency of public health service held by government is better than the other two types of CHS. Conclusion Different social forces should be encouraged to improve the system of community health center and promote the development of public health service. The evaluation modes of public health items should be improved and health administrations ought to direct CHSs implementing different public items in balance. CHSs held by society and hospitals should improve the supplying efficiency and technical level of public health services and increase input moderately on the basis of reasonable allocation of resources