NCHS Drug Poisoning Mortality by County
When someone dies from a drug overdose, it gets counted. But in smaller counties where deaths are rare, health agencies don't release the exact numbers to protect privacy. This dataset works around that problem by using statistical modeling to estimate overdose death rates for every single county in the US, even the small ones where raw counts are hidden. You can see how the overdose crisis spread differently across the country from 2003 to 2021, whether you're looking at rural Appalachia, urban centers, or anywhere in between. Each county also gets confidence intervals so you know how certain the estimate is.
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- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z – 2021-12-31T00:00:00Z
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All county-level drug poisoning mortality estimates sorted by most recent year
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- How did drug poisoning death rates change in my county between 2003 and 2021?
- Which counties had the highest overdose death rates in the most recent year?
- How do rural and urban counties compare in terms of drug poisoning mortality?
- What is the confidence interval around the death rate estimate for a specific county?
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