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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 7.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Health Sci. 2017 Jun;8(1):19–32.

Table 2.

2010 demographics, social characteristics, economic profile, and education level (>25 years of age and with a bachelor’s degree) of Delaware’s adult population in each of the three Delaware counties. The calculated mortality rate is based on any mention of obesity on death certificate from CDC WONDER for 2010 (Friede et al., 1993).

Delaware County Mortality Rate per
100,000		 Per-Capita Income ($) Educational Attainment Poverty
New Castle 12.63 44920 19.6% 11.3%
Kent 11.09 34344 12.5% 11.2%
Sussex 8.62 35666 11.7% 13.8%