State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Death Rates Data

Death Rate Report for New Hampshire by County

Breast, 2018-2022

All Races (includes Hispanic), Female, All Ages

Sorted by Rate

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of 15.3 is from the Healthy People 2020 project done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Death Rate (95% Confidence Interval) - The death rate is based upon 100,000 people and is for 5 year(s). Rates are age-adjusted by 5-year age groups to the 2000 U.S. standard million population (the Healthy People 2020 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal).

Recent Trends - This is an interpretation of the AAPC:

• Rising when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is above 0.
• Stable when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change includes 0.
• Falling when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is below 0.

AAPC (95% Confidence Interval) - The Average Annual Percent Change is the change in rate over time. These AAPCs are based upon APCs that were calculated by Joinpoint Regression Program

Other Notes

• Larger confidence intervals indicate less stability of the data. This is often due to low counts that are not quite low enough to be suppressed.
• Data is currently being suppressed if there are fewer than 16 counts for the time period.

Line by Line Interpretation of the Report

New Hampshire

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : N/A
• Met Healthy People Objective of 15.3? : No
• Rate : The death rate is 17.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 16.4 to 18.9 and 180 average annual deaths over 2018-2022.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -2.1 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.5 to -0.4.

United States

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : N/A
• Met Healthy People Objective of 15.3? : No
• Rate : The death rate is 19.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 19.2 to 19.4 and 42,308 average annual deaths over 2018-2022.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.2 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.3 to -1.1.

Strafford County

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Met Healthy People Objective of 15.3? : No
• Rate : The death rate is 22.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 18.1 to 28.2 and 18 average annual deaths over 2018-2022.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 1 (1, 7)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -20.3 with a 95% confidence interval from -29.9 to -10.5.

Coos County

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Met Healthy People Objective of 15.3? : No
• Rate : The death rate is 22.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 15.0 to 33.5 and 7 average annual deaths over 2018-2022.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 2 (1, 10)
• Recent Trend : * Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category. If an average count of 3 is shown, the total number of cases for the time period is 16 or more which exceeds suppression threshold (but is rounded to 3).

Cheshire County

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Met Healthy People Objective of 15.3? : No
• Rate : The death rate is 22.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 17.1 to 28.6 and 14 average annual deaths over 2018-2022.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 3 (1, 7)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 0.9 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.5 to 14.5.

Belknap County

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Met Healthy People Objective of 15.3? : No
• Rate : The death rate is 19.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 14.5 to 26.9 and 10 average annual deaths over 2018-2022.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 4 (1, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -2.0 with a 95% confidence interval from -3.1 to -1.0.

Merrimack County

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Met Healthy People Objective of 15.3? : No
• Rate : The death rate is 19.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 15.6 to 23.8 and 21 average annual deaths over 2018-2022.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 5 (1, 9)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -1.3 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.6 to 0.2.

Carroll County

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Met Healthy People Objective of 15.3? : No
• Rate : The death rate is 18.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 13.1 to 26.1 and 10 average annual deaths over 2018-2022.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 6 (1, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -2.8 with a 95% confidence interval from -4.4 to -1.2.

Grafton County

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Met Healthy People Objective of 15.3? : No
• Rate : The death rate is 17.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 13.6 to 23.1 and 13 average annual deaths over 2018-2022.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 7 (2, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -2.8 with a 95% confidence interval from -4.0 to -1.5.

Sullivan County

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Met Healthy People Objective of 15.3? : No
• Rate : The death rate is 15.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 9.9 to 23.8 and 5 average annual deaths over 2018-2022.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 8 (2, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -4.0 with a 95% confidence interval from -5.8 to -2.6.

Hillsborough County

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Met Healthy People Objective of 15.3? : No
• Rate : The death rate is 15.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 13.5 to 17.7 and 45 average annual deaths over 2018-2022.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 9 (5, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -2.9 with a 95% confidence interval from -3.6 to -2.2.

Rockingham County

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Met Healthy People Objective of 15.3? : No
• Rate : The death rate is 15.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 13.1 to 17.9 and 37 average annual deaths over 2018-2022.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 10 (5, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -3.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -4.0 to -2.9.

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 07/13/2025 4:04 am.

State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data.

† Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85+). The Healthy People 2030 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI.
The US Population Data File is used with mortality data.
‡ The Average Annual Percent Change (AAPC) is based on the APCs calculated by Joinpoint. Due to data availability issues, the time period used in the calculation of the joinpoint regression model may differ for selected counties.

Φ Rural-Urban Continuum Codes provided by the USDA.

* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category. If an average count of 3 is shown, the total number of cases for the time period is 16 or more which exceeds suppression threshold (but is rounded to 3).

Please note that the data comes from different sources. Due to different years of data availability, most of the trends are AAPCs based on APCs but some are APCs calculated in SEER*Stat. Please refer to the source for each graph for additional information.

Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.