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 6.1 in Part VI, Early death
Life expectancy at birth is lower in more deprived neighborhoods, 74.0 against 82.3 years in the most and least deprived tenths of census tracts for deaths in 2010 to 2015, and county averages conceal differences within counties.
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- 2Gun homicide and the causes of early death
Chapter 6.2 in Part VI, Early death
The tract clusters with the highest firearm homicide rates hold 50% of the deaths implied for 2022 to 2024 and 9.5% of residents outside New York City, and in Cook County the residents of the highest-rate clusters have a life expectancy of 71.7 years (deaths in 2010 to 2015), 9.5 fewer than those in clusters with no recorded deaths.
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- 3A deprivation index at two zooms
Chapter 10.3 in Part X, How the estimates are made
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 3.3 in Part III, The climb
White children from low-income families 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, and across the 1,265 counties with life expectancy estimates for both groups, weighted by population, non-Hispanic white life expectancy exceeds non-Hispanic Black by 4.4 years.
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