Table 3:

County-Level Characteristics Comparisons by Breast Cancer Mortality Hot Spot Category, Among All Women 2000 – 2015.

	Hot Spota (N = 80)	Non-Significant (N = 3,028)	P valueb	ρc
	Presented as Median (IQR)d
Race
% NH-White	65.7 (41.4 – 94.2)	85.9 (67.6 – 94.0)	<0.001	−0.07
% NH-Black	27.8 (2.4 – 52.5)	1.9 (0.5 – 9.4)	<0.001	0.14
% Hispanic	1.8 (1.2 – 3.1)	3.5 (1.7 – 8.8)	<0.001	−0.11
% Female Sex	51.1 (49.6 – 52.1)	50.4 (49.5 – 51.1)	<0.001	0.06
% Age
<18	22.0 (20.0 – 24.2)	22.9 (20.9 – 24.6)	0.05	−0.04
18 – 29	13.9 (12.7 – 15.1)	14.0 (12.3 – 16.0)	0.77	−0.01
30 – 44	17.5 (16.4 – 18.4)	17.7 (16.3 – 19.0)	0.26	−0.02
45 – 64	28.8 (27.0 – 29.9)	28.0 (26.3 – 29.6)	0.10	0.03
65 – 79	12.9 (11.5 – 14.5)	12.1 (10.3 – 13.9)	0.005	0.05
80+	4.4 (3.8 – 5.1)	4.2 (3.4 – 5.2)	0.09	0.03
% Completed college	13.7 (12.1 – 17.2)	18.0 (14.0 – 23.9)	<0.001	−0.11
% Household income <$20,000	27.8 (23.3 – 34.5)	20.5 (16.4 – 25.4)	<0.001	0.14
County-level characteristics
% Obesity	33.9 (31.4 – 36.9)	30.6 (28.3 – 33.1)	<0.001	0.12
% Smoking	22.6 (20.2 – 26.5)	19.4 (14.4 – 24.1)	<0.001	0.09
% Could not see doctor due to cost	17.1 (13.2 ––21.5)	12.6 (5.0 – 17.4)	<0.001	0.09
% Limited access to healthy foods	6.3 (3.4 – 12.0)	6.1 (3.4 – 10.2)	0.36	0.02
% Mammography screening	58.0 (51.6 – 63.0)	61.4 (55.9 – 66.7)	0.003	−0.05
% Physical inactivity	33.1 (29.4 – 34.6)	28.1 (24.5 – 31.2)	<0.001	0.13
% Unemployment	9.4 (7.7 – 11.3)	7.5 (5.7 – 9.3)	<0.001	0.11
% Uninsured	23.0 (20.1 – 26.0)	21.4 (16.8 – 26.1)	0.02	0.04
PCPe per 10,000 persons	4.3 (2.5 – 6.0)	4.9 (3.1 – 7.0)	0.02	−0.04
Non-Urban	68.8 (50.8 – 88.4)	59.1 (32.9 – 87.0)	0.006	0.05

^aDefined as counties estimated as a hot spot by all three geospatial methods (local indicators of spatial association, empirical Bayes, and Gi*).

^bSignificance determined using Wilcoxon test, p values <0.05.

^cSpearman correlation with being a county-level breast cancer mortality hot spot.

^dIQR = interquartile range.

^ePCP = Primary care physicians