Reading path
The argument in eight chapters
8 chapters in reading order. A path is a way through the book that follows one question; every chapter also stands alone. A companion stop is optional and is not counted in that total.
- 1Place and the length of a life
Chapter 8.4 in Part VIII, Early death
Life expectancy at birth was 82.3 years in the least deprived tenth of census tracts and 74.0 years in the most deprived, for deaths recorded in 2010 to 2015.
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- 2Birthweight and preterm birth
Chapter 2.1 in Part II, Birth
Low birthweight was 7.4% of births in the least deprived tenth of counties and 9.7% in the most deprived, for births in 2018 to 2024 in counties of 100,000 or more residents.
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- 3Test scores, class and race
Chapter 3.1 in Part III, School
Average achievement in third through eighth grade, 2009 to 2019, differs by 2.54 grade levels between the 5th and 95th percentile of counties and rises with county income in 45 of 45 states.
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- 4Race, income and mobility
Chapter 4.3 in Part IV, Becoming an adult
White children from low-income families born in 1978 to 1983 reached a higher adult income rank than Black children raised in the same tract in 92.5% of the 30,997 tracts where both are estimated.
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- 5Health behaviors and the supply of care
Chapter 7.1 in Part VII, Health and care
In the most deprived tenth of census tracts, the modeled 2022 share of adults with a past-year dental visit was 24.4 points below the least deprived tenth, and the routine-checkup share 3.6 points above.
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Companion stop
Air pollutionChapter 6.1 in Part VI, Environment, connection and well-being
The national traffic-pollution percentile of census tracts, modeled for 2020, has a correlation of −0.41 with the Area Deprivation Index across tracts but +0.19 within counties.
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- 6Gun homicide and the causes of early death
Chapter 8.1 in Part VIII, Early death
Outside New York City, the tract clusters with the highest firearm homicide rates hold 50% of the deaths that CDC's rates imply for 2022 to 2024 and 9.5% of residents.
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- 7Disability, retirement and Medicare
Chapter 7.4 in Part VII, Health and care
In CDC PLACES model estimates from 2022 survey responses, the share of adults with any disability was 23.3% in the least deprived tenth of census tracts and 42.9% in the most deprived.
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- 8Places that beat the model
Chapter 9.3 in Part IX, Reading the patterns
Five census measures from 2019 to 2023 account for 44.0% of the variation in tract upward mobility for children born in 1978 to 1983, and counties below that prediction cluster in the South.
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