Socioeconomic factors and your health City of Cincinnati by neighborhood: there is a 21.4 years difference in life expectancy depending on where you live.
U.S. Life Expectancy Varies by Two Decades Depending on Location (not different than City of Cincinnati) • Nationwide in 2014, the average life expectancy was about 79.1 years, up 5.3 years from 1980. • For men, life expectancy climbed from 70 years to 76.7 years, while for women it increased from 77.5 years to 81.5 years. • There are stark disparities: a baby born in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, can expect to live just 66.8 years, while a child born in Summit County, Colorado, can expect to live 86.8 years, on average. • Risk factors - obesity, lack of exercise, smoking, hypertension, and diabetes - explained 74 percent of the variation in longevity in the U.S. • Socioeconomic factors - a combination of poverty, income, education, unemployment and race - were independently related to 60 percent of the inequality, and access to and quality of health care explained 27 percent. • Several counties in South and North Dakota, typically with Native American reservations, had the lowest life expectancy.
Cincinnati neighborhoods with lowest life expectancy
Years
Cincinnati neighborhoods with highest life expectancy
Years
South Fairmount
66.4
Mt. Washington
82.9
Lower Price Hill
66.8
Madisonville
83.1
Sedamsville/Riverside
67.0
Hyde Park
83.2
Camp Washington
67.8
Mt. Lookout
85.9
Avondale
68.2
Mt. Adams
86.4
North Avondale/Paddock Hills
87.1
Mt. Lookout/Columbia Tusculum
87.8
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