Life Expectancy
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Life Expectancy
Key Metric
Life Expectancy
77.4
Engaging in the flourishing of neighborhoods within the city, we can hope to see average life expectancy increase.
Life expectancy at large can be a helpful tool to gauge the general health of a community. There are a combination of factors that influence whether or not an individual reaches old age including personal genetics, lifestyle and community factors. As a community there are related issues that can affect specific pockets of the population. These include, but are not limited to, poverty, access to healthcare, food insecurity and access to healthy food. Where people live has a noticeable outcome on life expectancy, with life expectancy ranging from 69.2 to 88.7 depending on census tract. Finding ways to improve a specific, local area, with greater safety, access to transportation, healthy food, jobs, and even parks and green spaces has been shown to help affect an increase in life expectancy.
By The Numbers
Helpful insight into some of the factors that affect the key metric and have an impact on this reality. Select an area on the map to view neighborhood-level stats.
Access to Health Insurance
Employer
Direct
Medicare
Medicaid
Other
None
Low Access to a Grocery Store
Low Access (70.3%)
Accessible (29.7%)
Adverse Health Factors
Diabetes
High Blood Pressure
Heart Disease
Obesity
Life Expectancy Percentile
77.4
Life expectancy (years)
67th
percentile
Stories and Local Context
Listen to and learn from the stories of people, churches and/or organizations experiencing or engaging this reality first hand.
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Links to Books, Resources, Organizations and/or Opportunities that are engaging this topic well.
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