Reading path
Differences inside one county
4 chapters in reading order. A path is a way through the book that follows one question; every chapter also stands alone.
- 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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- 2Gun 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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- 3What a county average leaves out
Chapter 1.2 in Part I, Rankings and scale
A county's percentile on a deprivation index follows the average of its tracts' percentiles, with a correlation of 0.96, yet 32.7% of residents live in a tract more than 25 percentile points from their county's percentile.
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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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