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. 2018 Apr 27;67(6):1–23. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.ss6706a1

TABLE 1. Number* and percentage of children aged 8 years, by race/ethnicity and site — Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 sites, United States, 2014.

Site Site institution Surveillance area Total White,
non-Hispanic Black,
non-Hispanic Hispanic Asian or
Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic American Indian
or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic
No. No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%)
Arizona University of Arizona Part of 1 county in metropolitan Phoenix 24,952 12,308 (49.3) 1,336 (5.4) 9,792 (39.2) 975 (3.9) 541 (2.2)
Arkansas University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences All 75 counties in Arkansas 39,992 26,103 (65.3) 7,705 (19.3) 5,012 (12.5) 843 (2.1) 329 (0.8)
Colorado Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment 7 counties in metropolitan Denver 41,128 22,410 (54.5) 2,724 (6.6) 13,735 (33.4) 2,031 (4.9) 228 (0.6)
Georgia CDC 5 counties including metropolitan Atlanta 51,161 15,495 (30.3) 22,042 (43.1) 9,913 (19.4) 3,599 (7.0) 112 (0.2)
Maryland Johns Hopkins University 1 county in metropolitan Baltimore 9,955 4,977 (50.0) 3,399 (34.1) 829 (8.3) 719 (7.2) 31 (0.3)
Minnesota University of Minnesota Parts of 2 counties including Minneapolis–St. Paul 9,767 3,793 (38.8) 2,719 (27.8) 1,486 (15.2) 1,576 (16.1) 193 (2.0)
Missouri Washington University 5 counties including metropolitan St. Louis 25,333 16,529 (65.2) 6,577 (26.0) 1,220 (4.8) 931 (3.7) 76 (0.3)
New Jersey Rutgers University 4 counties including metropolitan Newark 32,935 13,593 (41.3) 7,166 (21.8) 10,226 (31.0) 1,874 (5.7) 76 (0.2)
North Carolina University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 6 counties in central North Carolina 30,283 15,241 (50.3) 7,701 (25.4) 5,463 (18.0) 1,778 (5.9) 100 (0.3)
Tennessee Vanderbilt University Medical Center 11 counties in middle Tennessee 24,940 15,867 (63.6) 4,896 (19.6) 3,324 (13.3) 799 (3.2) 54 (0.2)
Wisconsin University of Wisconsin–Madison 10 counties in southeastern Wisconsin 35,037 20,732 (59.2) 6,486 (18.5) 6,181 (17.6) 1,471 (4.2) 167 (0.5)
All sites combined 325,483 167,048 (51.3) 72,751 (22.4) 67,181 (20.6) 16,596 (5.1) 1,907 (0.6)

* Total numbers of children aged 8 years in each surveillance area were obtained from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics Vintage 2016 Bridged-Race Population Estimates for July 1, 2014.

Denominator excludes school districts that were not included in the surveillance area, calculated from National Center for Education Statistics enrollment counts of third graders during the 2014–2015 school year.