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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Epidemiol. 2020 Feb 11;43:37–43.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.01.012

Table 1.

Characteristics of counties included in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey and Berks-Lancaster-Schuylkill Household Health Survey

County Survey region Population densitya,b NCHS classc Percentage whiteb Percentage blackb Median incomed Poverty rated
Philadelphia SEPA 4,393.6 1 41.0 43.4 37,192 26.5
Bucks SEPA 399.5 2 89.2 3.6 76,555 5.4
Chester SEPA 256.6 2 85.5 6.1 86,050 6.9
Delaware SEPA 1,173.9 2 72.5 19.7 64,041 10.3
Montgomery SEPA 639.3 2 81.1 8.7 79,183 6.1
Berks BLS 185.5 3 83.2 4.9 55,170 13.9
Lancaster BLS 212.5 3 88.6 3.7 56,483 10.5
Schuylkill BLS 73.5 5 94.4 2.7 45,012 12.8
Pennsylvania -- 109.6 -- 81.9 10.8 52,548 13.3
United States -- 33.7 -- 72.4 12.6 53,046 15.4
a

Population density is expressed as population per square kilometer of land area;

b

County-, state- and national-level population density and racial composition are taken from the 2010 Decennial Census;

c

2013 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties categories are: 1 - large central metro, 2 - large fringe metro, 3 - medium metro, 4 - small metro, 5 - micropolitan, and 6 - noncore;

d

County-, state- and national-level median income, expressed in 2013 inflation-adjusted dollars, and poverty rate, expressed as the percent population below poverty level, are taken from the 2013 ACS 5-year estimates.