Where People Live Longer — And Where They Don’t

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September 17th, 2018

In Atlanta, Buckhead and Bankhead are only a few miles apart, but the difference in life expectancy in the two neighborhoods is almost 25 years, said Dr. Harry Heiman, a health policy expert at Georgia State University. Such startling variations commonly appear in new data that break down life expectancy at birth for most of the census tracts in the United States, for the period from 2010 to 2015.

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Life expectancy at an English Avenue neighborhood address, in a low-income section of Atlanta, is 63.6 years.

But less than 10 miles away, an address in the affluent Margaret Mitchell area of Atlanta, named after the famous writer, has a life expectancy of 87.2 years.

Such startling variations commonly appear in new data that break down life expectancy at birth — the average number of years a person can expect to live — for most of the census tracts in the United States, for the period from 2010 to 2015.

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