{
  "alt": "Map of United States counties colored by the leading cause of death among four. Overdose counties are the most common color, suicide and motor-vehicle crash counties are less common and spread across many states, and a few homicide counties lie in the South. Many counties are gray because at least one rate is missing.",
  "caption": "Overdose leads in most of the mapped counties, suicide in {fact:dom_suic} and motor-vehicle crashes in {fact:dom_mv}, and homicide leads in a short run of Southern counties. Each county takes the color of the cause with the highest rate; gray counties lack at least one of the four rates, and the tooltip gives the four rates.",
  "data": [],
  "id": "dominant_cause_map",
  "notes": [
    "Gray means at least one of the four rates is missing. County Health Rankings leaves out a county's rate when it has fewer than {fact:chr_floor} deaths from that cause in the window, so a missing rate means too few deaths, not zero, and the gray counties are mostly small ones. The map answers only for the {fact:n_dom} counties with all four rates, which hold {fact:mix_pop} of county residents.",
    "Counties are compared on rates computed over windows of different lengths (overdose 2019 to 2021, suicide 2017 to 2021, homicide and motor-vehicle crashes 2015 to 2021), and small counties have noisy rates, so a label in a county with few deaths can change with one year of data. Puerto Rico is not on the map. Connecticut is drawn as its eight legacy counties."
  ],
  "source": "County Health Rankings 2024 release, NCHS death counts 2015-2021 in windows that differ by cause, crude rates from full counts",
  "spec": {
    "fips": "fips",
    "legendLabel": "Cause with the highest rate",
    "payload": "dominant_cause_map.json",
    "scale": {
      "categories": [
        {
          "color": "overdose",
          "label": "Overdose",
          "value": "overdose"
        },
        {
          "color": "suicide",
          "label": "Suicide",
          "value": "suicide"
        },
        {
          "color": "homicide",
          "label": "Homicide",
          "value": "homicide"
        },
        {
          "color": "cat1",
          "label": "Motor-vehicle crash",
          "value": "motor_vehicle"
        }
      ],
      "type": "categorical"
    },
    "tooltipKeys": [
      "overdose",
      "suicide",
      "homicide",
      "motor_vehicle"
    ],
    "tooltipLabels": {
      "homicide": "Homicide, per 100,000",
      "motor_vehicle": "Motor-vehicle crash, per 100,000",
      "overdose": "Overdose, per 100,000",
      "suicide": "Suicide, per 100,000"
    },
    "value": "leading"
  },
  "subtitle": "Kind of death with the highest crude death rate among overdose, suicide, homicide and motor-vehicle crash, counties with all four rates published, County Health Rankings 2024 release",
  "title": "Overdose has the highest rate of the four causes in {fact:dom_od} of {fact:n_dom} counties, and homicide in only {fact:dom_hom}",
  "type": "county-map",
  "width": "full"
}