Table 1.

State and county characteristics aggregated over the 5 year time period (2001-2005)

	States (n = 50)	Counties (n = 220)
Percent of the population	100%	46%
	Mean (SD) [Range]	Mean (SD) [Range]
Suicides per 100,000 people	10.9 (3.4) [6.1 – 19.9]	11.2 (3.6) [4.3 – 27.2]
Firearm suicides per 100,000 people	7.0 (2.9) [1.7 – 14.7]	5.7 (2.9) [0.9 – 21.3]
Non-firearm suicides per 100,000 people	5.4 (1.3) [2.8 – 9.5]	5.5 (1.6) [2.1 – 10.0]
Percent of households with firearms	38.9 (13.9) [8.0 – 63.1]	29.5 (13.7) [1.7 – 65.1]
Annual antidepressant prescription fills per 100,000 people	48,426.2 (10,270.8) [20,444.1 – 68,675.6]	57,606.3 (22,257.7) [4,498.6 – 126,778.0]
Percent unemployment	5.1 (1.1) [2.8 – 6.4]	5.2 (1.4) [2.6-16.3]
Median income (USD)	51,595.4 (7,792.4) [36,543 – 70,645]	46,815.0 (10,217.0) 005B27,608.6 – 81,112.8]