How long are people in your city expected to live? An analysis of government data shows how money and education can mean the difference between a long life and an early death.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.In America, money and education can mean the difference between a long life and an early death, and these differences can play out street by street.
Take suburban Los Angeles. In one section of Palos Verdes Estates, where the median income is $175,536 and 98 percent of the population graduated from high school, the expected lifespan is 86.4 years. Differences between adjacent areas can be striking. For instance, in North Carolina's Edgecombe County, tracts 213 and 203 are adjacent tracts with similar economic, educational and employment percentages.Tract 203 is 84 percent black and has an expected lifespan of just 74.7 years.
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