{
  "alt": "Line chart of the homicide rate across ten tenths of tracts ordered by deprivation. The line rises gently from the least deprived tenth on the left through the ninth tenth, then climbs steeply at the most deprived tenth on the right, where the interval is widest.",
  "caption": "The rate is higher in each tenth than in the one before, and the step from the ninth to the most deprived tenth is larger than any other. The line plots the population-weighted mean of tract values, each carrying the rate of its cluster, with a 95% interval from a bootstrap over counties.",
  "data": [
    {
      "conf_high": 2.16,
      "conf_low": 1.35,
      "estimate": 1.76,
      "n_units": 6479,
      "tenth": 1
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 3.18,
      "conf_low": 2.07,
      "estimate": 2.62,
      "n_units": 6827,
      "tenth": 2
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 3.48,
      "conf_low": 2.63,
      "estimate": 3.03,
      "n_units": 7072,
      "tenth": 3
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 4.18,
      "conf_low": 3.29,
      "estimate": 3.7,
      "n_units": 7220,
      "tenth": 4
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 4.69,
      "conf_low": 3.97,
      "estimate": 4.33,
      "n_units": 7178,
      "tenth": 5
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 5.63,
      "conf_low": 4.68,
      "estimate": 5.16,
      "n_units": 7602,
      "tenth": 6
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 7.09,
      "conf_low": 5.55,
      "estimate": 6.27,
      "n_units": 7317,
      "tenth": 7
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 8.32,
      "conf_low": 6.48,
      "estimate": 7.34,
      "n_units": 7495,
      "tenth": 8
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 9.59,
      "conf_low": 7.41,
      "estimate": 8.43,
      "n_units": 7425,
      "tenth": 9
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 16.85,
      "conf_low": 12.76,
      "estimate": 14.81,
      "n_units": 7610,
      "tenth": 10
    }
  ],
  "id": "homicide_by_tenth",
  "notes": [
    "The homicide rate is CDC's modeled estimate for a cluster of about five neighboring tracts, repeated on each tract; a tract's rate is the mean of its cluster's annual rates for 2022 to 2024. 2024 is provisional.",
    "Homicide is deaths from homicide by any means, as CDC's dashboard defines it. Suicides of every means and deaths in legal intervention are not counted; the panel publishes legal intervention only inside all firearm deaths.",
    "New York City is left out of every rate: its tracts hold {fact:nyc_pop} of residents in the gradient and carry rates near zero in CDC's tract file, a mean of {fact:nyc_tract_rate} per hundred thousand against {fact:nyc_county_rate} in the county file, with {fact:nyc_zero_share} of its tracts at exactly zero. A further {fact:withheld_pop} of residents live in clusters where CDC withholds the rate in at least one year, and {fact:cover_pop} are in tracts with a rate.",
    "Intervals are 95% intervals from a bootstrap that draws whole counties with replacement (replicates and seed are in the methods note).",
    "Across all the tracts in the comparison the rate is {fact:us_homicide_tract} per hundred thousand residents a year."
  ],
  "source": "CDC Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence, tract file, homicide, 2022-2024; modeled estimates for tract clusters; population-weighted",
  "spec": {
    "hi": "conf_high",
    "lo": "conf_low",
    "n": "n_units",
    "x": "tenth",
    "xDomain": [
      1,
      10
    ],
    "xLabel": "Tenth of tracts by Area Deprivation Index (1 = least deprived, 10 = most deprived)",
    "xTicks": [
      1,
      2,
      3,
      4,
      5,
      6,
      7,
      8,
      9,
      10
    ],
    "y": "estimate",
    "yDomain": [
      0,
      18
    ],
    "yFormat": {
      "digits": 1
    },
    "yLabel": "Homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year"
  },
  "subtitle": "Mean annual homicide deaths per 100,000 residents, 2022 to 2024, by tenth of tracts on the Area Deprivation Index, tracts outside New York City with a published rate",
  "title": "Homicide deaths per hundred thousand residents a year rise from {fact:hom_d1} in the least deprived tenth of tracts to {fact:hom_d10} in the most deprived",
  "type": "line"
}